UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 31, 1993
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Two faculty members receive grants for studies
Two KU faculty members from the department of human development and family life will receive grants to study and teach in KU departments outside their field during the 1994 spring semester.
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Wilma Hla, instructor, and Edward Morris, professor, are the recipients.
Exxon Corp. established the grants to the KU Endowment Association in the early 1980s. In recent years, the association has provided funds for the awards.
Holt will study gifted education for young children and enroll in educational psychology and research courses that specialize in gifted children. She will concentrate her studies on gifted education for minority children and children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Holt has a master's degree in child development from Oklahoma State University and became a faculty member in 1971.
Morris will take courses in the history and philosophy departments. He plans to study methods of historical research and the history of philosophy of science. Morris earned his doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Illinois and joined KU as an assistant professor of psychology in 1975.
A KU doctoral student was one of only 11 students nationally to receive a Pharmacology Research Associate Program fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
Doctoral student awarded research fellowship
student, will spend two years at the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology in Bethesda, Md. He will study proteins in the brain that are targets for drugs such as cocaine.
Peter Johnson, Lawrence graduate
Since 1988 he has worked as a research assistant with Elias Michaelis, professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
Johnson graduated with a bachelor of science degree in biology from Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore., in 1988, and he received a master's degree in pharmacology and toxicology from KU in 1991. He will receive his doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology from KU in May.
Johnson said he thought his work at KU had helped him win the fellowship.
"I was a bit surprised," he said. "I'm lucky to come from such a good lab where there is a legacy of people working in the fellowship."
Women in education program to be shown
A satellite video conference on the problems of minority women in higher education will be shown from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
The program "Too Invisible, Too Silent, For Too Long" will be sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and Black Issues in Higher Education.
The video conference will feature a panel of college administrators from across the nation who will discuss the experiences of minority women in the college community. Topics will include equality, women in leadership positions and their limited opportunities, student experiences
and the academic, social and professional environment for women.
The conference is being held in conjunction with Women's History Month and is open to the public.
Plan would give Regents control over financing
A House committee yesterday passed a plan to the full House that would revamp the way the Regents universities are financed.
rme plan, spearheaded by State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, who is head of the House Appropriations Committee, would create a base budget for the universities and guarantee them set percentage increases from the state general fund for three years, beginning Fall 1994.
That percentage was set at 2 percent yesterday.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, DLawrence, who is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has said the plan was a good one in theory because it also would give universities control over tuition increases and would give them the revenues generated from those increases. The tuition increases now are controlled by the Board of Regents and can be set by the Legislature.
But Charlton said a 2 percent increase from the general fund each year may not necessarily benefit the universities.
"It's hard to say if we're better off or not," Charlton said. "It may be close to what we'd get anyway."
Briefs compiled by Kansan staff writers
Joshua Joltaven, Dan England and Ben
Grove.
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