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Graduate Gets Fulbright Award
A Fulbright Scholarship has been granted to Kenneth D. Shields, Wichita graduate student, for study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He will study English literature.
Shields received the bachelor of arts degree in 1952 from Greenville College, Greenville, Ill., and the master of arts from KU in 1954. He has been an assistant instructor in the University English department.
Senior Wins Design Prize
The Fulbright scholarships are awarded by the International Educational Exchange Service, Department of State. Recipients are selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships, whose members are appointed by the President of the United States. The scholarships are financed by foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the treasury of the United States in 19 countries. They provide tuition, books, travel expenses, and maintenance for a year.
An original design for a sofa and a matching upholstered chair won $50 and entrance to the national competition in the Blocksom Design Contest for Merle D. Smith, Minneapolis senior.
The contest is conducted in each college or university among design students. Winners from each school will compete for the grand prize of $500 for the student-designer, and $500 to his school for a design scholarship. The winner will be announced in June.
Runners-up at KU were Weston W. George, Wichita senior; Edward C. Julian, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; and William D. Wolfe, Lawrence junior.
Judges for the KU contest were Miss Marjorie Whitney, professor of design; Arvid D. Jacobson., associate professor of design; and Jack C. Morley, assistant professor of architecture, and a furniture designer in Kansas City.
Senior Award Is Renewed
The University Oil Products Co. of Des Plaines, Ill., has renewed for a second year its $500 scholarship for seniors in chemical engineering at the University.
The award will go to one senior or be divided between two seniors for the 1957-58 school year. Holder this year of the first scholarship is John A. Myers, of St. Joseph, Mo.
In making the award, David W. Harris, chairman of the board of the donor company, said the grant was in recognition of service to the industry performed by chemical engineers trained by KU. KU's department was among the first in the Midwest to offer the Ph.D. degree and to be accreditied by the Engineers Council for Professional Development.
$13,000 Granted To Study Nerves
A $13,000 grant to study the effects of the sympathetic nervous system on the eye has been given by the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. David G. Fleming, assistant professor of physiology, will conduct the three-year study.
The sympathetic nervous system is the system which acts involuntarily, controlling the adrenalin glands, and others. Dr. Fleming and his assistant, Robert E. Nichols, Stilwell junior, are stimulating the nerves in rabbits, and destroying them in other animals to study the effects.
Dr. Fleming presented a paper Mar. 31 at the Midwest meeting of the Assn. for Research in Ophthalmology in Iowa City, Iowa, on "The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Controlling Accommodation (focusing) of the Eye."
Competition From A 4-Year-Old?
Richard Spohn, 4-year-old nephew of Marcia Opperman, Fredonia sophomore, told his aunt recently he was coming to KU to visit her soon. The purpose of his visit is to talk to Wilt Chamberlain.
"I want to talk to him and ask him what he eats to grow so big," Richard said.
Find Out Now How To Be Naval Officer
Members of the Naval Officer Information Team are visiting the University today, Tuesday, and Wednesday to discuss the Navy's Officer Candidate programs with those interested. The written entrance examination will be given to those who desire it.
The three basic officer programs are the Aviation Officer Candidate, the Naval Aviation Cadet, and the Officer Candidate Program.
To make marbles, blobs of molten glass drop onto threaded rollers set side by side. The cooling bits ride down the grooves, becoming perfect spheres, as the block cools.
Scot To Give Genetics Lecture
Dr. Forbes W. Robertson, of the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, Scotland, will deliver a University Lecture at 4 p.m. today in 101 Snow on "A Comparative Approach to Genetic Variations."
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Dr. Robertson, who has been described as one of the foremost figures in quantitative genetics in the world today, is on leave this year lecturing and doing research at the University of Texas in Austin. He has been a lecturer in zoology at the University of Birmingham, England, and for the past 10 years has been a member of the scientific staff of the Agricultural Research Council of Great Britain, working with the Institute of Animal Genetics.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Dr. Robertson studied at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, Scotland; received the B.Sc. degree with honors from the University of Aberdeen; the Ph.D.' degree from the University of Birmingham, and the DSc. degree from the University of Edinburgh.
During his visit to KU, Dr. Robertson will give a closed lecture
Monday.. April 8, 1957
Next Disc Jockey You Hear May Be Sociology Prof
Part-time disc jockey is a job which Dr. Carroll D. Clark has added to his duties as chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology. Dr. Clark is presenting a series of programs entitled, "A Professor Looks at Jazz," from 12:15 to 1:15 each Saturday on KANU, the campus FM station. His first show was Saturday.
Dr. Clark's interest in music dates back to his childhood when he acquired his first saxophone, which had belonged to a musician with Ringling Brothers' Circus. Jazz has been his first love since World War I, when he played with service jazz groups.
Following the war, Dr. Clark became a student at the University, working his way through school
to a group of scientists at the Faculty Club, will address an entomology seminar in quantitative genetics, and will visit entomological research laboratories and talk with staff members.
The departments of entomology and zoology are sponsoring Dr. Robertson's lectures.
playing with a pit orchestra in a Lawrence theater. He was a member of the KU Band for four years.
He joined the University faculty after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Because jazz, at that time, was not considered to be quite "correct," he sold his saxophone.
In 1941, armed with a new saxophone, Dr. Clark re-entered the world of jazz, appearing with a faculty group to play for a war benefit.
Dr. Clark's new program consists of jazz records and his own comments on the sociological factors involved in the development of jazz. The Faculty Jazz Combo, with whom Dr. Clark plays, may appear on his new show.
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