Science Depts. Get $150,953 In NFS Grants
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Four professors in biological science studies at KU have received notification that their research will be financed by two National Science Foundation grants and a U.S. Public Health Service grant.
Kathleen Doering, associate professor of entomology, and Ryuichi Matsuda, research associate, are co-directors of a $32,000 National Science Foundation grant for two years' research leading to the publication of a text on insect morphology.
Rufus Thompson, professor of botany, will use a $17,500 National Science Foundation grant to continue studying green algae. This summer, Prof. Thompson will join in a two months study of tropical biology at the University of Costa Rica.
James M. Akagi, assistant professor of bacteriology, has been granted $17,110 by the U.S. Public Health Service for the first year study of the metabolism of sulphur compounds in living organisms. Pending congressional appropriations, Prof. Akagi will receive $16,323 for each of four following years to continue the algae study.
A total of $68,020 will be invested in new scientific equipment for undergraduate instruction with NSF grants being matched by KU funds.
Two graduate students, Clarence S. Buller of Peabody, and Martin Wilder, Brooklyn, N.Y., will assist Prof. Akagi.
The University will match a foundation grant of $22,650 for undergraduate instruction equipment in the department of comparative biochemistry and physiology and a $11,360 grant to the department of bacteriology.
An age that has no criticism is either an age in which art is immobile, hieratic, and confined to the reproduction of formal types, or an age that possesses no art at all. — Oscar Wilde
Peace Corps Exam To Be Given Saturday
The examination for placement in the U.S. Peace Corps will be given Saturday in Room 3 of Green Hall.
The examination will begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue into the afternoon, with a break for lunch. Students with afternoon conflicts should take the general examination in the morning.
Persons with a special skill and the equivalent of a high school education are eligible for the test. Proficiency in a foreign language is not required.
Student Architects Receive Scholarships
Five KU students are winners of scholarships totaling $2,600 awarded by the American Institute of Architects for study next year.
Scholarships, which vary in amount according to need, were awarded to the following:
Suzy Howell, Clinton, Mo., senior; Fred J. Stephenson, Lawrence graduate; David G. DeLong, Emporia senior; Donald E. Hunter, Oak Park, Ill., senior; and Gary D. Utican, Lawrence senior.
Mary S. Killgore, Parkville, Mo,
senior, has declined a Fulbright
exchange grant for graduate study
in Brazil in favor of a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship previously
offered her.
Student Takes Wilson Grant
University Daily Kansan
Miss Killgore plans to reapply for the Fulbright grant next year. She made her decision to decline the Fulbright upon the advice of her professors here and the ones with whom she will study next year at the University of Wisconsin under the Woodrow Wilson award.
During her study at Wisconsin, Miss Killgore expects to complete her course material and be ready to work on her thesis. She says the unexplored geography of Latin America offers great possibilities for study.
The Fulbright grant, which provides round-trip transportation, tuition, books and maintenance, would have enabled Miss Killgore to study geography at the University of San Paulo.
A Spanish and geography major, she is a teaching assistant in the geography department here.
34th Annual
BIG 8 CONFERENCE Track & Field Championships FINALS
Saturday, May 19 Starting at 1:00 p.m. in MEMORIAL STADIUM
This year's meet will feature Kansas University indoor champions, Oklahoma's defending outdoor champions and powerful Nebraska and Missouri in what is predicted as one of the tightest team battles in conference history.
KU Students Admission 50c with Student ID.
Space Flight Postponed
CAPE CANAVERAL-(UPI)—A parachute problem that plagued the space voyage of John Glenn three months ago returned yesterday to haunt America's second manned orbital flight and forced a new postponement until next Tuesday.
U. S. scientists decided at a top-level conference last night that the trouble posed too much of a threat to the life of spaceman-elect M. Scott Carpenter to risk going ahead with the launching Saturday as scheduled.
The three-day delay, third schedule hitch in little more than a week, will be used to install additional equipment to make the critical parachute system, designed to lower the astronaut and his capsule to a soft ocean landing, even more safe, officials said.
Carpenter, a 37-year-old Navy lieutenant commander who had
been described as awaiting his planned three-orbit space flight "as anxiously as a kid at Christmas," attended the conference and took the decision with an official grumble.
The postponement "gives me a better chance to work with confidence," a formal announcement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) quoted him as saying.
Last week, Carpenter's orbital mission received a pair of two-day postponements because of difficulties in the Atlas booster rocket and in the key attitude control system of his "Aurora-7" space capsule. During the next few days, the countdown went smoothly.
But yesterday, the bottom of plans for a Saturday launching date fell out in a series of three jolting setbacks.
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