Oread research in varied forms
By KATHY KESSLER
The purpose of all universities is to educate their students. This process is done mainly through research, because research is the way questions may be answered and knowledge gained.
KU supports research in the broad areas including the humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering.
Three of the outstanding research projects being done at KU are the project on mental retardation, remote sensing, and high temperature chemistry.
The mental retardation project is putting emphasis mainly on the mentally retarded children. The interesting part of this project is that people from many different fields are all cooperating and combining their talents and knowledge toward the project. Richard L. Schiefelbusch, director of child research, is in charge of this project.
Another interesting project is remote sensing under the direction of Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering. This project is working on developing techniques for obtaining information from a great distance, such as counting or analyzing things from a very great distance.
The high temperature chemistry, headed by Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry, is a study of materials at temperatures as high as 3,000 Centigrade. This knowledge is very useful in areas such as rockets, reactors in power production, and efficient engines. This also gives an insight into the general structures under more normal conditions.
W. J. Argersinger, dean of research, is a chemist. He went to Cornell, then worked on the Manhattan atom bomb and has been here for 21 years.
The research at KU is financed in several ways. Roughly $6 million of grant and contracts mostly from the government have been received to go toward research. The University budgets about $5 million in addition to the "traditional research" done by the faculty as preparations for classes, and lectures. The University also spends money on equipment and travel to further the research here.
Geologists plan forum
With two special programs completed successfully in the past six months, KU earth scientists are planning a third on "Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences."
Daniel F. Merriam, research associate of the state geological survey, said the Dec. 14-15 colloquium would be on "Time-Series Analysis." The University's Center for Research in the Engineering Sciences again will be co-sponsor with the Survey.
Merriam said time-series analysis is an essential phase of computer use in the earth sciences. Participants in the colloquium will need a background in statistics and computer usage.
Several notable earth scientists have agreed to take part in the program and the latest scientific results will be presented.
CAMPUS NOTES
Ford to pay for fish study
The Ford Foundation has made a grant of $180,000 to the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) of which KU is one of 17 members. The OTS is a combine of graduate programs set up in 1963 with headquarters at the University of Miami, Fla.
The grant will support pilot investigations of special problems in tropical field biology. This is the first grant ever made to OTS for research. Previous support from the National Science Foundation has been for graduate training programs.
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KU gets new Italian prof
Vincenzo Traversa, a member of the Stanford University faculty the past seven years, will become an associate professor in the department of French and Italian here this fall.
Traversa became an instructor at Stanford in 1962 and was appointed assistant professor in 1962.
earning the M.A. degree in 1959 and the Ph.D. in 1963. At UCLA he was an instructor and for two years was associate editor of the "Italian Quarterly."
At KU Dr. Traversa will be the principal instructor of courses in Italian.
Traversa earned a doctorate in English from the Instituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy, in 1949. For several years he was an instructor in Italian for the NATO Language School in Italy and the University of Maryland Overseas program.
He began graduate study in Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1957,
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