COVETED AWARD
Chemistry professor receives 2-year grant
Benjamin T. Chu, associate professor of chemistry, is one of 20 young scientists who will share $1.4 million in unrestricted, two-year grants for basic research from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Prof. Chu's appointment to the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship becomes effective in the 1968-67 academic year.
newed for a third year the research fellowship of Robin T. M. Fraser, also associate professor of chemistry, whose original appointment was in 1964.
Prof. Chu's field is physical chemistry and he will use the Sloan money for studies in that area.
Prof. Chu, a native of Shanghai China, has been at Kansas since 1962.
Army Research Office; $21,000 from the petroleum research fund of the American Chemical Society; and a small grant from the KU research fund.
His research activities have been in critical phenomena, structures of non-crystalline media, and molecular configuration and dynamics of macromolecules in solution.
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CAPE KENNEDY — (UPI) — The Federal Space Agency today postponed the twin launches of Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott and their Rendezvous rocket from Tuesday to Wednesday.
BOTH PROBLEMS INVOLVED leaks. The Space Agency said leaks were discovered in the Atlas late last night and other leaks were found in a Gemini circuit that supplies oxygen to the astronauts' space suits.
The 24-hour delay was blamed on separate troubles in the fuel system of the Atlas booster that carries the Agena target satellite and in the Gemini 8 capsule's oxygen system.
"Project officials are trouble shooting the Atlas fueling system at complex 14 and the spacecraft environmental control system at pad 19 to determine the exact cause of the leaks," the agency said in a statement.
Prof. Chu currently is directing research under four grants:$75.700 from the National Science Foundation; $20.994 from the
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