Seven Faculty Members Awarded Research Status for 2000-2001 Academic Year By Sue Kropp
			MAY 25, 2000--Last semester seven faculty members received research status for the 2000-2001 academic year. President Nancy Dye awards research status to faculty members after the Research and Development Committee reviews and ranks all applications. Lisa Crawford, professor of harpsichord, will investigate the music of Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c.1705-1755). Crawford will examine three of Royer's surviving works: the opera-ballets Zaide and Le Pouvoir de l'Amour, and the ode La Fortune. Her research will culminate in several articles, and possibly in a critical edition of Royer's opera-ballets. Crawford also plans to collaborate with Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Harmonia Mundi France to record a CD of Royer's work. Warren Darcy, professor of music theory, plans to undertake a book-length study of rotational form in the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. Darcy will examine three types of symphonic movements, those based upon the sonata principle, slow movements, and scherzi. He will give the sonata-based movements--the longest and most complex of the three forms--the most attention. Darcy will analyze the movements with former Oberlin faculty member James Hepokoski, professor of music history at Yale University, by using the sonata theory that the two are developing. William Friedman, professor of psychology, will undertake a yearlong collaborative research project with Harlene Hayne, associate professor of sociology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Using Hayne's laboratory resources and subject pool, the pair will continue Friedman's decade-long research into the early stages of temporal knowledge. To determine how children learn about their environment, the research will focus on the process of forming new temporal expectations in young infants. Benjamin Schiff, professor of politics, will study international cooperation in prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Schiff sees the cooperation as an example of what international-relations theorists consider an institutionalized area of cooperation, or an international regime. Schiff will travel to do research into the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and into preparation for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a book tentatively titled "Tribunals, Truth Commissions and an International Court: Constructing a War Crimes Regime." Timothy Scholl, associate professor of Russian, will continue working on a book-length study that examines the ballets of George Balanchine. The study investigates the role of Russian and European romanticism in Balanchine's ballets, balancing the dominant view of Balanchine and his work as the epitome of American high modernism. Scholl will travel to the University of Helsinki--where the largest collection of Russian manuscripts found outside Russia resides--to complete the research. Dan Stinebring, associate professor of physics, plans to research a new astronomical phenomenon that he discovered with several students. Stinebring will observe the phenomenon--a sharply defined feature in the spectrum of pulsars he and his students have studied--at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Stinebring will work with several student researchers to pinpoint the source of the feature. Robin Treichel, associate professor of biology, will spend the 2000-2001 academic year at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Treichel will work in the laboratory of Eric Long, head of the molecular and cellular immunology section for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Treichel's experience in Maryland will extend her research of natural killer (NK) cells and NK-cell-inhibitory receptors at the molecular level, and will examine how these cells block the destruction of cancer (particularly leukemia) cells.
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