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Bates was a founding member of the UCSD department of Cognitive Science, the first such department in the United States . She was also the director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the SDSU /UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders. Well known for her pioneering research into Child Development and Language Acquisition , she authoured 10 books and more than 200 scientific articles. Professor Bates died, aged 56, after a yearlong battle against Pancreatic Cancer . Being well regarded for her commitment to students, the Elizabeth Bates Graduate Research Fund was established to assist graduate students' research. Bates's curriculum vitae and papers from 1993-2004 are available, as of 4/18/05, at: http://crl.ucsd.edu/~bates/ |