In addition to research of global market economies, the IC² Institute directly invests in research for new knowledge and new technologies through its Endowed Fellows at The University of Texas at Austin. Premier scholars from various disciplines across the University, these 18 professors work to expand the boundaries of science and technology, in theory and in practice. They are also a part of the IC² Institute Global Fellows network.

EDWARD G. ANDERSON, JR. (Information, Risk, and Operations Management) seeks to address the overarching question: how can organizations best create, implement, and maintain technological knowledge and other related capabilities in an economy that is increasingly characterized by mutually dependent, yet rapidly changing networks of specialist firms. His current research addresses three themes: staffing problems with learning effects under non-stationary demands, dynamics of service supply chains, and managing the dynamics of outsourcing product and manufacturing development.

CYNTHIA BUCKLEY (Sociology) investigates issues of population, health and development in the southern Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia. In Summer 2006 she served as the resident Embassy Policy Expert at the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe Tajikistan. Her current research examines HIV/AIDS testing patterns and prevalence estimates, and the effect of male labor migration on family health and economic stability in the southern Caucasus. Professor Buckley is the lead editor of a forthcoming collection investigating migration within Eurasia; she was selected as a Senior Scholar for the U.S. State Department’s Regional Policy Symposium on the Silk Road and as an International Senior Scholar for the Open Societies Institutes Central Asian Research and Training Initiative.

JOHN SIBLEY BUTLER (Management) performs research in organizational behavior and entrepreneurship, specifically immigrant and minority entrepreneurship, and his books include Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black America: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics and All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way. Professor Butler was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, established by Congress to supervise the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. He is Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, in addition to being Director of the IC2 Institute. He holds the Gale Chair in Small Business and Business Management and Entrepreneurship and Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship.

WILLIAM COOPER (Finance) has an outstanding record in developing quantitative tools to solve managerial problems. He has made major contributions to a range of fields: operations research, management science, manpower planning and accounting, as well as economics. He is co-recipient of the prestigious Von Neumann Medal for his work in developing mathematical programming techniques and models for decision planning, and has also received research awards from the American Accounting Association and the Institute for Management Science. Professor Cooper holds the Foster Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus of Finance And Management.

WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM (Marketing Administration) researches corporate governance and issues related to the primary responsibilities of boards of directors, and best practices for selecting corporate directors, executive compensation, and board compensation. Professor Cunningham holds the James L. Bayless Chair for Free Enterprise in the McCombs School of Business Department of Marketing, has served the university in many leadership roles during his academic career. He was president of the university from 1985-92 and was chancellor of The University of Texas System from 1992-2000. Prior to his presidency, he was dean of the McCombs School of Business from 1983-85. He is currently writing a history of The University during his tenure as President of The University of Texas at Austin and Chancellor of The University of Texas System.

DAVID EATON (Public Affairs) engages in research focused on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution. Professor Eaton has written on rural water supply, international water resource conflicts, energy management, environmental problems of industries, management of emergency medical services, applications of mathematical programming to resource problems, insurance, and agriculture. Eaton’s current research concerns U.S.-Mexico environmental cooperation, new methods for evaluation of air pollution emissions, joint management by Palestinians and Israelis of shared groundwater, and water conservation in Texas. He is the Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies.

LINDA GOLDEN (Marketing Administration) is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor in Business at the Department of Marketing Administration in the Red McCombs School of Business. She is published in the areas of attribution theory, comparative advertising, retail image and patronage behavior; methodological scaling issues, and social marketing (particularly health and ecological issues). She has been published in journals including Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Urban Analysis, and Management Science.

PAMELA HAUNSCHILD (Management) researches organizational (and inter-organizational) learning processes, especially how and under what circumstances organizations learn from their “errors” or “mistakes.” She is also interested in issues related to networks and corporate governance, and how governance decisions are affected by network information and influence. Her awards include a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Corporate Governance. Professor Haunschild serves on several editorial boards and is currently serving as Division Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. She holds the Herbert D. Kelleher/McOrp Regents Professorship in Business.

ROBERT A. HUMMER (Sociology) is the Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts #1. is a social demographer whose research centers on health and mortality disparities across population groups in the United States, and with links between migration and health, and religion and health. Together with Richard Rogers and Charles Nam, he published Living and Dying in the USA: Health, Behavioral, and Social Differentials of Adult Mortality (Academic Press, 2000), which won the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association for its contribution to the field of Social Demography. He has also published more than 75 journal articles and book chapters related to health and mortality patterns in the United States. He is currently working on a project funded by NICHD that examines educational differences in U.S. adult mortality.

ARTHUR MARKMAN (Psychology) researches similarity in human thought processes, as well as category learning and adecision making. He collaborated with Miguel Brendl and Claude Messner to develop the Evaluative Movement Assessment (EMA) technique. The program for running this technique can be found here. He is currently the executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science, published by the Cognitive Science Society.

REUBEN B. McDANIEL, Jr. (Management MSIS) Dr. McDaniel is the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Health Care Management at the Department of Management Science & Information Systems. A member of the university’s faculty since 1972, McDaniel has been an advocate for many causes benefiting members of the university community. He has been a leader in the recruitment of minority students and faculty and an uncompromising advocate of women’s athletics, supporting increased funding for women’s sports and academic achievement among student competitors. He has played a key role in the introduction of complexity science into the curriculum in the McCombs School of Business. As chair of the university’s Faculty Council, he worked to streamline faculty governance and to ensure excellence in classroom instruction.

ROBERT M. METCALFE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Dr. Metcalfe is a professor of innovation and fellow of the Clint W. Murchison Sr. Chair of Free Enterprise based in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering. He has been a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners since 2001 and continues to advise the Massachusetts-based firm as a venture partner. During the 1980s, Metcalfe founded and grew the billion-dollar computer networking company, 3Com Corp., which merged with Hewlett-Packard in 2010. In the 1970s, he worked in the Computer Science Laboratory of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he invented today's local-area networking standard, Ethernet, for which he received the National Medal of Technology.

STEVE NICHOLS (Mechanical Engineering) Dr. Nichols is an expert on design and manufacturing systems, with a particular interest in technology commercialization. Much of his work at the university has encouraged entrepreneurship education and commercialization experiences for students from the College of Engineering as well as other schools and colleges within the university. Dr. Nichols served as the university’s associate vice president for research from 2002 to 2006. He is currently the university’s Research Integrity Officer. His research interests include Product development & technology commercialization, Entrepreneurial development of students, Engineering professional responsibility, and Engineering design & engineering design education. Dr. Nichols directs the Clint W. Murchison, Sr. Chair of Free Enterprise, a role in which he develops programs focusing on professional responsibility, product development, technology innovation, and creativity.

ROBERT PETERSON (Associate Vice President for Research) has served as chairman of the Department of Marketing Administration and associate dean for research in the McCombs School of Business; he is a former editor of the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Presently he serves on four editorial boards. He holds the John T. Stuart III Centennial Chair in Business Administration in the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Peterson has authored or co-authored in excess of 150 articles and books. He has received numerous awards and honors. In 2006 he was named the American Marketing Association/McGraw-Hill Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator and received the Berkman Service Award from the Academy of Marketing Science.

TED RAPPAPORT (Electrical & Computing Engineering) researches developing new methods for analyzing and developing wireless broadband network access and portable internet access. A recently acquired Army Research Lab grant focuses on massively broadband technology whose far reaching applications include rugged, lightweight wireless connectivity for soldiers in combat. This research combines RF IC design and semiconductor research capabilities with MAC and Network layer research at frequencies of 60 GHz and greater, paving the way for basic research that could lead to single chip data transceivers that reliably transfer more than 5 GB/s data for more than 5 meters in military or commercial applications. An NSF research project involving four undergraduate students and two graduate students is developing new methods for analyzing mobile IP throughput and large scale wireless network behavior. He holds the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering.

VIOLINA RINDOVA (Management) is an Associate Professor with the Department of Management, McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. From New York University (1999), her MBA from the University of Houston (1992) and J.D. from Sophia University, Bulgaria (1990, with honors). She has been with The University of Texas at Austin since 2006, and previously taught at the University of Maryland (2000-2006) and the University of Washington (1998-2000). She was associate editor for Academy of Management Review (2005-2008), and is on the editorial board for Academy of Management Review, Strategic Organization, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

DEL TESAR (Mechanical Engineering) is the Director of the UT Robotics Research Group, and his research interests include the development of advanced component and system technology for intelligent machines and robotics including their performance, condition-based maintenance, and fault tolerance for applications in space, manufacturing, military operations and microsurgery. He has served on several national panels, including the Air Force Science Advisory Board, the Space Station Review Committee for the NRC, and presently on the Army Science Board, has given testimony several times to the U.S. Congress. Areas of Expertise: Actuators (motor, brake, sensor, electronics, interfaces, software, intelligence); system software, metrology, performance, architecture, structural design, modularity, integration, fault tolerance, (condition-based maintenance, manufacturing cells, assemble systems on demand); applications (robotics, manufacturing, space, nuclear, aircraft, navy, battlefield, anti-terrorism, surgery, human rehabilitation).

JULIET E. K. WALKER (History) researches Gender, Inequality, Politics, Popular culture, Race and ethnicity, with specific focus on African American history; antebellum slavery; black business history and political economy; black intellectual history; African American women’s history. With particular interest in Black American entrepreneurship, she is currently conducting in-depth research on Oprah Winfrey, as America’s first black female billionaire. In 2002, Dr. Walker created the Center for the Study of Black Business, History, Entrepreneurship and Technology, which provides comprehensive study of all aspects of black business.