UPDATE: 6:42 p.m.: Chancellor says presidential search may end within a month; names of 2 possible finalists listed in e-mail from IU professor

The IU board of trustees will likely select the University's next president within a month, said Ken Gros Louis, IU's chancellor, citing widespread faculty discontent as a reason for the likely hastened decision.\nThe prediction comes as two names surfaced in an e-mail by IU chemistry professor Theodore Widlanski to some faculty members last week that interim Provost Michael McRobbie and Dr. Ora Pescovitz, associate dean of research at the IU School of Medicine, were likely two of the search's final candidates. \n"These are the names most of us already know," Widlanski said in his letter to faculty members. "Any notion that the process must continue to be done confidentially is surely counterproductive at this point."\nThroughout the search process, IU trustee and president of the recently disbanded Presidential Search Committee Sue Talbot has said a decision about the University's next leader would be reached by summer. But, Gros Louis said he expected the search to conclude prior to the University's spring break. \n"If (the trustees) feel the mounting pressure from the faculty they might want to move up the time frame just so that the irritation doesn't grow," he said. \nIn his letter, Widlanski would not specifically name his sources for the guess that McRobbie and Pescovitz were finalists and would not say in a telephone interview Monday whether he had personally spoken with either people.\n"I am not going to comment on conversations I may have had with them," he said. \nBut, rumors that McRobbie is a frontrunner for the University's top position surfaced long before Widlanski's letter. A top university administrator also said McRobbie was the University's favorite candidate.