Thursday, Sept 17, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Grants Hit High in 1963-64; More Being Given
A last quarter surge of nearly $11\%$ million in grants for sponsored research and associated training projects at KU and its Center for Research in Engineering Science brought the total for the fiscal year to nearly $4 million. William J. Argersinger, Jr., associate dean of faculties for research, has announced.
The total does not include research performed at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, which receives almost as much support as the Lawrence campus from federal agencies and private sources.
Grants to KU in the quarter ending June 30 were received for projects in 25 schools, departments, and divisions, ranging from anthropology to zoology.
They include botany, chemical engineering, chemistry, child research, civil engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, comparative biochemistry and physiology, the School of Education, electrical engineering, entomology, geology, Guidance Service, the School of Law, mechanics and aerospace engineering, microbiology, music education, natural history, nuclear engineering, physics, psychology, social work, sociology, and speech and drama.
The total of $3,932,787 in grants received for research and associated training projects in the fiscal year 1563-64 at the Lawrence campus is a new record, Dean Argersinger said.
$397,000 for Health Research
A $397,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service will be used for construction of health research facilities in the proposed new Fraser Hall.
Many more grants have been awarded since the end of the fiscal year. A few of the awards follow.
The Legislature had previously appropriated $1,750,000 from the State Educational Building fund for construction of the 7-story behavioral sciences hall.
Of the federal grant, $362,000 will be for construction and fixed equipment. The remaining $35,000 will be for moveable laboratory fixtures.
IT IS HOPED that new Fraser Hall can be ready for use in September of 1966.
Departments scheduled to use the new hall are psychology, sociology, anthropology and human relations. The grant will permit them to continue and expand research already in progress and to provide for adequate staff facilities.
Research in psychology currently deals with personality formation, individual assessment, intellectual deficit, physical disability and rehabilitation, learning processes, growth and adjustment in childhood, community impacts on human behavior and group functioning.
SOCIOLOGY AND anthropology departments have underway studies on the problems of interrelationship between personality and social and cultural systems.
Health-related research in human relations has evaluated effects of human relations on individuals, and training programs in large organizations.
Three Receive $50,000
The NIH grant is one of 48, totaling nearly $30 million, made to institutions in 24 states on a matching fund basis. Selection of awardees was made by leading nongovernmental scientists, research administrators and others experienced in assessing health research facility needs.
Cellular immunity, tailless amphibians, tiny fossils and compression are research subjects of KU scientists who have received or renewed contracts and grants of more than $50,000.
Cora M. Downs, Summerfield distinguished professor emerita of microbiology, received a $19,377 renewal to an Army Medical contract for her research project titled "The Relation of Virulence and Phase Antigens to Cellular Immunity in Coxiella Infection."
Dr. William E. Duellman, associate professor of zoology and associate
curator of the Museum of Natural History, was granted $12,000 by the National Science Foundation for 26 months of taxonomic research on "Chromosome Characteristics in Some Anuran Amphibians."
H. A. Ireland received an $11,000 grant from the NSF for a nine-month project, "Silurian Microfossils in Europe and Australia."
A $9,900 grant to the KU Center for Research, Inc., will finance one year of a project directed by Nicollaas Willems, associate professor of civil engineering on "Research Initiation — Stability of Compression Members."
Biological Research Aided
Two associate professors of chemistry have received research grants together totaling more than $90,000 for new projects related to basic biological processes.
Richard J. Bearman, a former Guggenheim fellow, received $49,000 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project dealing with transport properties of liquefied gases at low temperatures and high pressures.
Earl S. Huyser, NSF senior postdoctoral fellow next year at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, was awarded a new grant of $15,624 from the United States Public Health Service for a study of hydrogen atom transfer reactions. Funds of $13,950 and $13,350 have been allocated tentatively for the second and third years of the project.
Botanist Gets $32,000
A botanist has been granted $22,000 by the National Science Foundation for basic studies of a fungus that lives in the intestinal tract of insects and other arthropods.
Under the three-year award, Robert W. Lichtwurt, associate professor, will conduct "Developmental and Systematic Studies of Trichomycetes." The research is related to work Dr. Lichtwurt has been conducting since March in Japan under NSF sponsorship.
Botanist Traveling in India
A KU botanist, his entomologist wife and their three-month-old daughter are in India for a year of research.
The botanist is Lekh R. Batra
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assistant professor and native of India. He received a $25,300 grant from the National Science Foundation to finance two years of his study on the relationships of ambrosia fungi and certain beetles. His work also is financed by a grant from the American Philosophical Society.
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His wife is Suzanne Batra, whose research in entomology complements that of her husband. She has been awarded a grant by Sigma-Xi Research Association of America to engage in study abroad.
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Their daughter is Mira, who was born in May, less than one month before her mother was granted the Ph.D. in entomology from KU.
Two Get Health Service Grants
Research on antibodies in test tubes and on pattern development in chick embryos has been extended through United States Public Health Service grants totalling $49,277.
Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology, will continue his seven-year study on the effects of radiation on biological defense systems with a $20,528 grant. If antibodies can be
manufactured outside of living tissue they will reinforce the body's capacity to recover from radiation damage. $ ^{10} $ In July Prof. Leone addressed the International Congress for Entomology in London on this work. He has been a speaker at Atomic Energy Commission research seminars in Washington, D.C., and has organized and directed several international scientific conferences.
fessor of comparative biochemistry and physiology, will receive $28,749 for the second year of a six-year program to study the metabolic pathways in early chick embryos. Prof. Wenger and his wife, Eleanor, have spent several years in research on the central nervous systems of chick embryos and nervous disorders. The present program, however, will concentrate on stages of earlier pattern development.
Byron S. Wenger, associate pro-
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