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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 15, 1960 Asian Center to Add Faculty
University Receives NSF Research Grants
Basic research will move forward at the University of Kansas with the financial support of awards granted recently, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced.
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE Foundation awarded two grants to KU which became effective Aug. 4.
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr., visiting associate professor of zoology, will direct a study of "Phylogeny of Paleozoic reptiles" with a three-year grant of $31,000. Dr. Eaton is also associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the KU Museum of Natural History.
A. Byron Leonard, professor of zoology, will receive $15,900 for a three-year study of "Fossil Molusca and fossil seeds from late Cenozoic deposits of the Great Plains region of the U.S."
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THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY Commission renewed the contract of Ernest Griswold and Jacob Kleinberg, professors of chemistry. The renewal provides $12,468 for another year's research on "Some problems in the chemistry of low oxidation states of metals."
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THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH Service has granted $10,075 to Howard A. Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, for his comparative study of the nervous system of mammals. Dr. Matzke is continuing his summer research efforts at Makerere College at Kampala, Uganda, after he drove overland to meet his family evacuated from the Congo earlier by airplane.
ADULT SPEECH AND HEARING correction will be stressed in a two-
year teaching and training grant awarded to Richard L. Schiefelbusch, professor of speech at the University of Kansas and director of the KU Bureau of Child Research.
The grant from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare provides $19,374 for the first year.
Graduate students will be trained under the two-year program to help adults with speech and hearing problems.
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A PROJECT AIMED at preventing duplication of research efforts by botanists will be initiated at the University. Dr. Raymond C. Jackson, assistant professor of botany, will be coordinator of the project for the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Dr. Jackson's responsibility will be to create and maintain an up-to-date file on all research projects begun by graduate students in botany and plant pathology.
EDWARD E. SMISSMAN, professor and chairman of the pharmaceutical chemistry department at the University, has received a grant of $23,109 from the U.S. Public Health Service for fundamental research on aromatic biosynthesis. The award made upon recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council, makes tentative allocation of $13,110 for each of three additional years for a project total of $62,439.
Dr. Smissman will join the KU faculty next month, coming from the University of Wisconsin. He succeeds Dr. Joseph H. Burckhalter.
Charles Beechdolt Realey. 60. KU professor of history, died Aug. 28 in the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Prof. Realey, who had taught English History at KU since he came in 1927, had been ill six months.
He was an assistant professor from 1927-35, an associate professor from 1935-39, and became a full professor
KU's East Asian Language and Area Center will add two faculty members next fall, a political scientist with experience in the Far East, and a specialist in Chinese history. Last year the center acquired one of the nation's few full-time instructors in Chinese. The U.S. Office of Education, will provide $14,015 next year to help support the center.
History Professor Dies in Hospital
in 1893. Prof. Reney had done history research in England during the summer of 1855.
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