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KU Professors Receive Grants
KU professors came back to school this fall with research grants awards and travel adventures.
John Weir, associate professor of zoology, and Paul Kitos, assistant professor of biochemistry, have been awarded $14,000 a year to study the genetical and biochemical aspects of the blood of mice.
A $70,000 GRANT from the U.S.
Public Health Service will finance a five-year study of the alkalinity of mice's blood at KU's Mammalian Genetics Center, beginning Oct. 1.
"We already have found some evidence that inherited differences between the lines of mice are related to biochemical differences of their blood." Prof. Weir said. The grant will finance additional research in this area.
Prof. Weir also has received renewal of a USPHS contract that provides $22,300 in new funds for support of the Mammalian Genetics Center.
"An understanding of the chemical processes of the mice will lead to an understanding of the problems of physiology." Prof. Weir added.
THOMAS ADAMS, teaching assistant in the zoology department, will serve as technical research assistant for the project.
The Center houses one of the nation's key installations in biological research. It also is used for the preservation of trust stocks of special inbred lines of mice used in cancer research programs.
Ronald L. McGregor, associate professor of botany, is the recipient of a three-year $16,000 National Science Foundation grant for the study of plants of the genus Riccia in North America.
The research award will finance a taxonomic study about the evolution and distribution of the genus, small plants about which little is known.
Prof. McGregor will conduct his survey primarily in Mexico during a leave of abrance during the spring semester. He also will make a study of the plant in Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and California and on the East Coast, from New Jersey south to Georgia.
"THE RESULTS of the survey should help to explain the migration of higher plants from the tropics," he said.
Mrs. Bernadette Menhusen, Glen Elder graduate student working toward a Ph.D. degree in botany, will work with him as a research assistant.
Prof. McGregor has been engaged in a study of the plant, for several years and plans to complete his work with this survey.
Edward E. Smissman, professor and chairman of the pharmaceutical chemistry department, has been awarded a $15,100 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on the chemistry of podophyllum components.
Under a grant from the National Institute of Health, he is engaged in research on aeromatic biogenesis aimed at discovering how benzenoid rings are built up in plants and animals. A second grant from NIH is for the study of euphoric producing compounds found in the South Pacific plant, kava kava.
He will direct his research at the synthesis of podophyllatoxin, which is thought to be an active component in tumor regression. Working with him as a research assistant is Philip Portoghese, New York City graduate student.
IN ADDITION to the NSF grant, Prof. Smissman also holds a grant from the Parke-Davis Laboratory for the study of analgesies and their preparation for testing.
He has also been awarded a grant from Abbott Laboratories to use as he wishes.
Prof. Smissman joined the KU faculty this fall, replacing Joseph H. Burckhalter, who is now chairman of the pharmaceutical chemistry department at the University of Michigan.
A. W. Kuchler, professor of geography, received the citation of the
History Meet Opens Friday
A professor of history at Northwestern University will address the third annual Conference of Teachers of History at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room at the Kansas Union.
The speaker, Lefton S. Stavrianos, will discuss "The Nature of World History."
history instructors are expected to attend the two-day conference.
About 100 high school and college
Saturday morning, discussion sessions on ancient history. Kansas history and the high school history course will be followed by a lunch-eon. Afternoon discussions will cover the Far East, central and western Europe and the Kansas Centennial in the classroom.
The decoration, which came as a surprise to Prof. Kuchler, was awarded while he was a participant, by invitation of the French government, in a colloquium at Toulouse. He also attended the International Geographical Congress at Stockholm, Sweden.
Academy of Sciences of Toulouse France, for his work last summer in mapping vegetation.
Prof. Kuchler is teaching again this fall after a year's leave for fulltime work on a research project mapping vegetation in the United States.
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Jimmy Bedford, formerly instructor in KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information , has been appointed assistant professor of journalism at the University of Maryland.
During the past two years he took a vacation from teaching to work his way around the world as a free lance writer and photo journalist. The trip, made mostly by motor scooter, took him 85,000 miles through 50 countries and five continents.
Thursday, Sept. 22, 1960 University Daily Kancan
TWO OF HIS articles appearing in current U.S. publications are "White Man Welcome in Black Africa" in the September issue of "Ebony," and "Around the World with a Nickel and a Camera" in the October issue of "U.S. Camera." He hopes to complete his book, "Around the World on a Nickel," within the next year.
The writers of the New Yorker school of fiction keep their hothouse gardens well manicured but don't dare venture outdoors.-S. G. Georges
At Maryland, Prof, Bedford is teaching courses in community journalism, press photography, picture editing, typography and editorial writing.
Accountant Appointed
Mrs. Helen Hartzell, former secretary to James R. Surface, dean of the School of Business, has been appointed accountant in charge of National Defense Act student loans. Mrs. Hartzell will be in charge of the disburseal of the loans and the handling of the collections.
Club Meeting Set
The first International Club meeting this semester will be at 8 p.m. Friday in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will give the opening address. Two hundred students are expected to attend.
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