FACULTY NEWS

Twenty new faculty joined the Aits and Sciences on July 1, including five new professors hired with tenure. Professor Bruce Donald has been conducting research and development in computer science and engineering for 20 years. His majorresearch interests include robotics, microelectromechanical systems, graphics, and geometric algorithms. Among his accomplishments: he cofounded the Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory.

Alexander Wendt, associate professor of government, received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Minnesota and taught at Yale before moving to Dartmouth this year. His main research interests lie in international relations and political theory. Economics professor Douglas Irwin previously worked at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and specializes in U. S. trade policy issues. Professor Peter Jacobi, received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1973 and carried out two years of postdoctoral research at Harvard with Professor Robert B. Woodward (the 1965 Nobel laureate in organic chemistry). His interests are in the field of synthetic organic chemistry. Professor Martin Wybourne earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in England. A physicist who works in the field of condensed matter physics, Wybourne's research specialty is electron and phonon transport in mesoscopic structures.