Geologists Have Prize:
'Percolator' Worth $25,000
The Geology Department has received a new coffee maker valued at $25,000.
The machine, called the X-ray diffraction unit, if properly wired, could perk a pot of coffee. However, it will be used by Marion Bickford, assistant professor of geology, in a $45,000 National Science Foundation research project to measure the decay of radioactive atoms in rocks subjected to long periods of deformation.
"OLD ROCKS ARE subject to destruction and deformation. Ordinary means to determine their age cannot be used. Only within the last 15 years has science developed methods and machines to study rocks formed more than 500 million years ago," Bickford said.
"The earth's geological history for the last 500 million years, about one-ninth of its age, has been studied. With the use of this machine, science can study the first eight-ninths of its history."
A $1,000 grant for research has been awarded Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, by the Educational Fund of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, national honorary organization of women educators.
Grant to Aid 'Little Dixie' Studv
Alcoa Award to Design Dept.
Alcoa Aluminum of America has awarded $1,000 and Alcoa materials to the industrial design department at the University of Kansas.
The award is part of the Alcoa Student Design Merit program. KU is one of six universities honored, and the only one in the Midwest.
The grant will assist her in a social history investigation of the "Little Dixie" counties of Missouri. Miss Grinstead is presently on sabbatical leave, researching and writing about this area which was settled largely by families out of Southern states 100 to 150 years ago.
SHE SPENT SEVERAL weeks last summer studying at the Missouri State Historical Society at Columbia under a KU research grant. In September and October, she traveled to interview descendants of the original settlers in these Missouri counties along the Missouri River.
More recently, she has been in the Eastern U.S. areas from which the pioneers' trek into Missouri began, and is now beginning a non-fiction work on the area.
Miss Grinstead is author of a
novel, "The High Road." and of many short stories and articles. Since 1953 she has directed the annual KU Writers' Conference. She has been on the KU faculty since 1948. Miss Grinstead will return to her teaching duties at the beginning of the spring semester.
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