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The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) recently recognized
its annual class of 33 UF Research Foundation Professors. The three-year
professorships are based on nominations from department chairs, a personal
statement and an evaluation of recent research accomplishments as evidenced
by publications in scholarly journals, external funding, and honors and
awards. This year, six CLAS professors received UFRF awards, which include
a $5,000 annual salary supplement and a one-time $3,000 research grant.
The professorships are funded from the university’s share of royalty
and licensing income on UF-generated products.
Sue
Boinski, an associate professor of anthropology, has developed a world-class
career with her active program of research and scholarly productivity in New
World primatology and evolutionary and historical ecology. First hired by the
university as a researcher in 1993, Boinski holds a PhD in zoology from the
University of Texas at Austin, as well as bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in anthropology. She is regarded as a world authority on the biology,
ecology and behavior of capuchins and squirrel monkeys. Her current research
is on how wild brown capuchins in the South American republic of Suriname produce
signals important in sexual selection by striking sticks and hard fruits against
large tree branches.
Jim
Channell, a professor of geology, is a distinguished geophysicist who
has made important contributions to the field of earth science. He received
his PhD in geophysics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in
1975 and came to UF in 1982. Channell is conducting cutting-edge research in
several areas, including the ordering in time and space of the fossil record
and associated geologic events, the motion of the continents across the earth’s
surface and their interaction, the behavior of the earth’s magnetic field
through time, and the relationship between variations in magnetic mineral susceptibility
and environmental change. One of his recent findings is that the intensity of
the earth’s magnetic field can be used as a global means of correlating
sedimentary climate records at thousand-year scales. Such correlations are important
for the study of abrupt climate change.
Ira
Clark, a professor of English, is a leader in the field of Renaissance
studies, particularly drama studies. He published his fourth book in 2003, Comedy,
Youth, Manhood in Early Modern England, and is currently writing Rhetorical
Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare’s Problem Plays. He received
his PhD in English from Northwestern University in 1966 and came to UF in 1972.
Clark’s work is aimed at engaging well-conceived discussions within the
field of Renaissance studies and how it is affected by drama. He has published
20 essays and 16 reviews.
William
Marsiglio, a professor of sociology, is an accomplished and productive
researcher whose work focuses on the social psychology of men’s experiences
in the areas of sex, fatherhood and reproductive health. He received his PhD
in sociology in 1987 from Ohio State University. He has authored and co-edited
six books, and his research has been cited more than 700 times in scholarly
literature. His two qualitative studies resulted in path-breaking books published
in 2002 and 2004, Sex, Men and Babies and Stepdads: Stories of
Love, Hope, and Repair. Marsiglio also has a book in press entitled Situated
Fathering: A Focus on Physical and Social Spaces.
Charles
Martin, the Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of
Chemistry, is a recognized expert in nano-materials and their role in
chemical analysis. Director of the UF Center for Research at the Bio/Nano
Interface, his work involves both bioanalytical chemistry and materials
science. He has pioneered the application of nanomaterials to biosensor
design and electrochemical energy storage and production.
Martin is a fellow of the Electrochemical Society and is listed among the top
20 cited authors in nanotechnology. He received his PhD in chemistry in 1980
from the University of Arizona and came to UF in 1999. He also serves as a professor
in the Department of Anesthesiology.
Manuel
Vásquez, an associate professor of religion, is widely
recognized within the field of religious studies for his research on issues
of immigration, transnationalism and globalization. He came to UF in 1994,
upon the completion of his PhD in religion from Temple University that
same year. His research focuses on the intersection between Christianity
and the diverse economic, political and cultural manifestations of globalization,
with the aim of developing theoretically sophisticated and innovative
approaches to the social scientific study of religion.
He has published four books, including 2003’s Globalizing
the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas and 2005’s co-edited
volume Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America.
—Buffy Lockette
Photo:
Jane Dominguez: (Boinski, Channell, Clark, Marsiglio, Vásquez)
Courtesy Chemistry Department: (Martin)
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