UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 31, Page 7
May 14, 1992
Three faculty receive 1992-93 advanced study fellowships

     Three senior faculty members have been named fellows of the
University's Center for Advanced Studies for 1992-93, Provost R. Byron
Pipes has announced. Fellowships will provide opportunities for
advanced research from Sept. 1, 1992 through Aug. 31, 1993 for Tamara
Hareven, Unidel Professor of Individual and Family Studies; Peter R.
Kolchin, professor of history; and Robert H. Wood, professor of
chemistry and biochemistry.
     Hareven will work on her book, Generation in Historical Time: The
Family Life Course and Aging in American Society. Her earlier books
include Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City and Family
Time and Industrial Time, based on research on the life histories of
New Hampshire mill workers and their children.
     In her current study, Hareven will present a comprehensive view
of work and family life across generations, based on interviews with
adult children and historical data about their immigrant parents. Her
work will investigate the manner in which historical events and life
experiences combine to influence the ways that children treat their
parents in old age.
     Kolchin will conduct research for a book on the emancipation of
American slaves and Russian serfs. He will investigate the abolition
and aftermath of the overthrow of American slavery and Russian
serfdom, both of which occurred in the 1860s. He also will look at the
larger issues that have concerned historians of Russia and the
southern United States, including the true changes brought about by
the new social order. Kolchin's books will be a sequel to his
prizing-winning 1987 book, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian
Serfdom.
     Wood will use his fellowship year to develop models of the forces
between atoms in aqueous solutions. Using these forces, he will
generate a computer simulation in which he will follow the
trajectories of about 250 molecules for a billionth of a second at a
specified temperature and pressure. From these trajectories, the
physical properties of this model universe can be calculated. Wood
will adjust the model to agree with experimental data generated at low
temperatures and pressures, then use it to predict the properties of
aqueous solutions at levels beyond those for which data exist. Aqueous
solutions at extremely high temperatures and pressures are responsible
for the dissolution of volcanic rock and the formation, alteration and
transport of most minerals. The prediction and analysis of these
geological processes depend on a knowledge of the chemistry involved.
     -Sue Swyers Moncure