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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1951
KU Gets Research Grants Worth More Than $40,500
Seven research grants to K.U. departments and faculty members, totalling more than $40,500, were announced during August by the chancellor's office.
The United States Public Health service gave $29,834 in four grants. The first was a $3,150 grant to Dr. Parke H. Woodard, associate professor of physiology. It will enable Dr. Woodard to continue a study of the mechanism of allergic responses.
Studying particularly reactions produced in a body by the injection of certain foreign proteins, Dr. Woodard has found that blood will not coagulate after the second injection.
The second U.S.P.H. S. grant went to Dr, Paul G. Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department. The $7,245 grant will support a year's study of the chemistry of the developing nervous system in its relationship to behavior. The results may provide an understanding of how patterns of nerve cells are laid down in an embryo, Dr. Roofe says.
The department of psychology received the third U.S.P.H.S. grant, which was for $11,739. It will enable K.U. to enlarge its teaching program in clinical psychology. Professor Erik Wright will direct this part of the teaching program.
The Office of Naval Research has contracted with K.U. to support a continuing study of blood cells directed by Dr. Roofe. The object of the 4-year-old study is to find how one kind of blood cells gives rise to five other kinds.
A $7,700 U.S.P.H.s grant was given to the graduate department of social work for further development of its curriculum in psychiatric social work. It will be used to pay teachers. Miss Ursula Lewis, associate professor of psychiatric social work, will continue the development of this curriculum.
The Research corporation granted $5,750 to Dr. Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, for continued investigations of synthetic relatives of cortisone. The purpose of the research is to find a drug which will give the same results as cortisone and can be synthesized more easily.
Dr. Burckhalter also received a $5,000 grant from Farke, Davis and company for research on synthetic drugs. One study is the search for relatives of morphine that would possess the same or better pain-releiving qualities without being habit-forming. The other is for synthetic drugs that could be used in treating high blood pressure.
Two Fill Vacancies In Design, Drawing
Two instructors have been appointed to fill vacancies in the departments of design and of drawing and painting at the University.
Bernard Dietz will be instructor in industrial design. He takes the place of Donald Kane, who resigned to accept an industrial position in Kansas City. Dietz has been teaching at New York State Teachers college, Oswego.
William D. Eckert, new instructor in drawing and painting, succeeds Robert Sudlow, who will study art in Paris next year. He earned a master of arts degree this year from Ohio State university where he held a scholarship.
Dietz holds bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in industrial design degrees from the University of Southern California. While in southern California he operated an industrial design studio.
Eckert, a veteran and native of Newark, Ohio, received two degrees from Ohio State in June of 1950; the bachelor of arts with distinction and the bachelor of fine arts cum laude. As an undergraduate he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, liberal arts honor society, and Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity.
Man-Wife Team Joins KU Staff
A man-wife team have joined the Uni- tiversity—he as assistant professor of anatomy and she as research associate on a special project sponsored by the U.S. Public Health service.
They are Dr. Byron S. and Dr. Eleanor Wenger, who have been teaching at Washington university, St. Louis. Mo. He will teach gross anatomy and engage in research.
The problem will concern the dein the embryonic stages of life,lation to behavior. The K.U. study will aim at determination of the chemical patterns laid down early in the embryonic stales of life.
Dr. Paul G. Roope, chairman of the anatomy department, said the Wengers hope to learn if the early chemical patterns later determine neurone patterns. The answers will be of interest to both students of neurology and those interested in problems of behavior.
The laboratory animal will be "a m b l y s t o m a t i g rinum," better known as the tiger salamander. With the aid of a new spectrophotometer the Wengers will analyze portions of the embryonic nervous system as small as 1/15,000th of an inch.
Dr. Byron S. Wenger obtained the bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the University of Wyoming in 1940 and 1941. He received the doctor of philosophy degree from Washington university in 1949. Dr. Eleanor Wenger obtained the doctorate from Washington a year earlier (1948). She holds the bachelor of arts degree from Brooklyn college, in 1940, and the master of arts degree from Oberlin college, in 1943.
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