Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1999-2000)

June Meeting, 2000

Association of Medical Illustrators and past president and member of the Board of
Governors of the Association of Medical Sculptors.
The Regents salute this distinguished scholar by naming Denis C. Lee professor
emeritus of art.
Donald J. Lewis, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in the College of Literature,
Science and the Arts, retired from active faculty status on May 31, 2000.
Professor Lewis received his B.S. degree from the College of St. Thomas in 1946
and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1949 and 1950,
respectively. From 1950-52, he was an instructor at The Ohio State University and in
1952-53 he was an NSF fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. From
1953-61, he was a faculty member at Notre Dame University. He joined the University
of Michigan as an associate professor in 1961 and was promoted to professor in 1963.
Professor Lewis served as chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1984-94, with a
break of one year to visit the Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Lewis' research lies in an area of number theory concerned primarily
with diophantine problems and encompasses the theory of algebraic number fields and
function fields and arithmetic geometry. It is characteristic especially of his earlier work
that he was the first to obtain any kind of result on a problem, and that this decisive
progress cleared the way for subsequent developments. The work in his thesis
concerning the local solubility of cubic forms, however, remains definitive. Also
noteworthy is a series of papers produced in collaboration with Harold Davenport which
laid the foundation for the investigation of a number of diophantine problems, especially
diagonal variants. He is the author of 55 research papers and a number of survey papers,
and he directed 24 doctoral theses.
From 1995-99, Professor Lewis was based in Washington, D.C., as the director of
the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the Natural Science Foundation. He has
received numerous awards, including a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from
the University in 1978 and an Alexander von Humboldt Preis Award in 1980. He was
awarded the Distinguished Public Service Award of the American Mathematical Society
in 1995 in recognition of his many contributions to mathematics research and education.
The Regents now salute this valued faculty member by naming Donald J. Lewis
professor emeritus of mathematics.
Thomas E. Moore, Ph.D., professor of biology and curator of insects, Museum of
Zoology, retired from active faculty status on May 31, 2000, after a most productive
career as a teacher and researcher.
A native of Illinois, Professor Moore received his B.S. (1951), M.S. (1952), and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. He joined the University of Michigan
faculty as an instructor in zoology and curator of insects in 1956. He was promoted to
assistant professor in 1959, associate professor in 1963, and professor in 1966. He
served as director of the Exhibit Museum from 1988-93.
Professor Moore's research interests include systematic, evolutionary, and
ecological relationships of cicadas (insects) of the world, especially their acoustical
behavior in nature. He also researched periodicity and associated behavior,
development, nature of sound-producing and sound-receiving structures, species-specific
physiology of acoustic nerves, and long-term interactions among animals and plants and
soils. More recently, he studied functional morphology and neural control of live insect
robots (biobots) as carriers of environmental sensors and their MEMS-engineering and
artificial intelligence applications. He had extensive field experience in the United
States, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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