New Associate Professors Announced By University

The University announced the appointment of three associate professors today. The appointments are effective July 1. Two of the new faculty members will teach Italian literature; the third joins the department of the History of Science.

Nicolae Iliescu, presently assistant professor of Italian, and Dante Della Terza, of the University of California, will become associate professors of Italian. Iliescu, and authority on Rumanian and Italian, uses philological-historical methods in the study of literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. He is currently studying Pirandello and Petrach.

Della Terza, a critic of modern Italian literature, has analyzed the work of contemporary French writers, including Gide, Sartre, and Camus, as well as that of Italian authors. Della Terza taught Italian literature at the University of Pisa, at lycees in Paris, and at the University of Toulouse before he joined the U.C.L.A. faculty.

Murdoch Returns

John E. Murdoch, an expert on medieval scientific thought and the development of mathematics, has received an appointment as associate professor of the History of Science. Presently at Princeton University, Murdoch is the author of "Rationes Mathematice," a history of mathematics and philosophy during the Middle Ages.

Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1960 as an assistant professor and preceptor in Philosophy, Murdoch taught for three years at Harvard. He is a member of the Council of the History of Science Society.