KU botanist awarded 31,300 national grant
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Lekh R. Batra, assistant professor of botany at KU, a grant of $31,300 to continue his research of the beneficial association of fungi with certain termites, ants, and ambrosia beetles.
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Each insect excretes certain antibiotics which inhibit foreign fungi from surviving, while at the same time promote the growth of the insect's special fungi.
He is a 1949 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy.
Batra began work on this project in 1957 after he completed his Ph.D. degree at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
In 1934 Bettra received a NSF grant of $25,300 for the same project, with which he and his wife, Suzanne, research associate of ontology at KU, traveled to India and Ceylon to study the insects.
"Symbiosis is the association between two dissimilar organisms, under which both partners benefit," Batra explained. "Certain subspecies of insects cultivate gardens of mold or fungi. This mold in turn, provides the only form of nourishment for the insects."
Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries at KU has been appointed consultant on international programs for the International Relations Office of the American Library Association in Chicago, Ill.
Repertory theater returns to KU next week with the Experimental Repertory Company reviving the four plays given the past summer.
A grant from the National Institute of Health for the project is also pending.
Buckman also will serve as director of the ALA's International Relations Office in Chicago from November 1 to May 30, 1967. However, he will continue as director of libraries at KU, commuting from Chicago and spending about one week in four here.
The University of Nebraska Press has published "Seven Plays and an Essay," translated by Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries at KU.
The "First Fall Repertory Festival" will start October 10 with "Romanoll and Juliet," "The Adding Machine," "Stop the World—I Want to Get Off," and "She Stoops to Conquer" playing on successive nights.
The works, written in Swedish by Par Lagerkvist, winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, have not appeared in English before.
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The International Relations office, supported since its inception in 1956 by the Rockefeller Foundation, plans and supervises activities related to the overseas development of libraries, exchange of persons, and technical assistance.
"The International Relations Office is at a crossroads in its development. I have been asked to study its program and to make recommendations for its future."
Buckman said he has two objectives.
Buckman has participated in the development of KU's area studies programs, particularly in regard to library resources, and is a member of the University's Council on International Studies. He was a Guggenheim fellow in Sweden during the academic year 1964-65. Last June he visited Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa to study problems of book publishing, book distribution, and libraries.
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