Campus Briefs
Spanish institute
Eighteen students are presently attending the University of Kansas Summer Language Institute in Guadalajara, Mexico, June 3-Aug. 2.
The program offers advanced level studies in Spanish conversation, composition, literature, creative writing and literature analysis. Students participating are regularly enrolled in the KU summer school and receive resident credit.
Instruction is by regular KU staff and by native instructors. Prof. Raymond Souza of Kansas is the director. Included in the program are visits to museums, guided tours and theatrical and concert performances.
KU students in Guadalajara are:
Guillermo Benitez, Guadalajara, Mexico; Nancy Faunce, Independence, Mo.; Paularay Felling, Shawnee Mission; Debbie Foster, Prairie Village; Claudia Haefele, Ulysses; Karen Hardy, Pryor, Okla; Kathy Helton, Satanta; Karen Kinnan, Caldwell.
Donna Lawson, La Plata, Mo; Marilyn McAmis, Kingsport, Tenn.; Walter Morrow, Kansas City; Gary Schilomoeller, Remson, Iowa; Fielda Smith, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Edith Soule, DeSoto; Linda Sprague, Kansas City, Mo.; Shary Stafford, Belleville; Margaret Svoboda, Chapman; and Lucille Van Liew, Atchison.
Cancer research
Mathias P. Mertes, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Kansas, has received a $23,768 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service for continuance of a development award in its research career program.
The grant will allow Mertes to continue his fifth year of research in discovering drugs with the potential to halt and cure cancer.
The cancer process is dependent upon the rate of synthesis of thymidic acid. By treating certain isolated enzymes with various agents, Mertes hopes to discover a thymidylic acid inhibitor which would stop the cancer process and ultimately cure the cancerous tissue.
Mertes, a 1960 University of Minnesota graduate, is one of a select group of American scientist granted this five-year award.
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Geology awards
A. Lyndon Morrow, Lake Charles, La., and Glenn Lee Allen, Miami, Fla., have been named recipients of the Erasmus Haworth Distinguished Alumnus Award by the KU Department of Geology.
Morrow, who received both his B.S. (1929) and his M.S. (1931) from KU was cited for his report based on studies of the continental shelf adjacent to the Texas-Louisiana coast. The report led to the first wildcat oil well drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in 1947.
Allen received his B.S. in Mining Engineering (1915) from KU and his M.S. in Metallurgy (1916) from the University of Utah. From 1916 to 1957, he worked with numerous private mining companies, the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Other Erasmus Haworth Awards went to H. Meade Cadot, Wilmington, Del., and Richard B. Keopnick, Lebanon, Ohio, for outstanding work at the Masters level. Robert Evans, Southampton, England, was cited for outstanding work at the Ph.D. level. Glenn Talierfero, El Dorado fifth year engineering student, received the William A. Tarr Award, based on scholarship, character and service to the department.
NSF grants
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made four grants totaling $31,600 to the University in its Undergraduate Instructional Scientific Equipment purchases program, and the University of Kansas is providing a matching amount of $31,600 from its own funds.
The University of Kansas' funds from the NSF are $9,000 in chemistry, $13,700 in comparative biochemistry and physiology, $4,800 in human development and family life, and $3,200 in linguistics.
Knox Scholarship
Peggy J. Sears, Rose Hill, has been awarded a $350 Sarah D Knox Scholarship to the University of Kansas for the 1969-70 academic year.
Miss Sears, who will be a senior majoring in psychology, has been on the Dean's Honor Roll at KU. She attended the KU French Language Institute in Paris, France, and last year held the Knox Scholarship.
The award was created in 1960 for students from El Dorado or Butler County.
Head Start
The scholarship was established by Mrs. Paul J. Neff of St. Louis, Mo., in memory of her husband who graduated from the KU School of Engineering in 1908 and was president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Harrel, who will be a senior in chemical engineering, has a cumulative grade point average of 2.56. He is vice-president of the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a member of Sigma Tau, national engineering honorary fraternity, and has been on the Dean's Honor Roll.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., announced a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity has been made to the University of Kansas for use in the Head Start Leadership Development program.
Warren B. Harrel, Jr., Lawrence, has been awarded a $375 Paul J. Neff Scholarship for the 1969-70 academic year in the University of Kansas School of Engineering.
The $245,982 grant will be used to usure high quality teaching and use of effective new techniques for teachers.
DON PETR DEVINE — AN AWK CARMBASS FILM
PETER O'TOOLE KATHARINE HEPBURN
Neff award
Health study
One hundred and sixty-two Head Start trainees in the OEO midwest region, including Kansas, Missouri, Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, South and North Dakotas, Utah, Colorado and Montana will benefit from these funds.
A problem in judgments of mental health will be studied by Dr. David A. Summers, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, backed by a $7,183 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service.
The one-year project, recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health, will allow Summers to determine where discrepancies lie between professional and non-professional judgments of mental health.
Burton hopes to determine what kind of systems individual body cells have for communication, plumbing and skeletal structures. In his research on the insulin forming cells of the pancreas, Burton is trying to find how insulin is created within the beta cells of the endocrine-producing pancreas.
Burton holds a five-year appointment in the USPHS research career development program. This new grant supplements that appointment for research into microtubular systems and insulin-forming cells of the pancreas.
Summers will present case studies to laymen and get their judgments concerning the mental health problems involved and the kind if help needed.
Paul R. Burton, associate professor of zoology at KU has been awarded a $17,290 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS).
Burton grant
He then will compare these findings with the judgments made by professionals in the field of mental health.
KU SUMMER THEATRE REP. '69
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Plays by American playwrights representative of the past four decades 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960.
THE MALE ANIMAL
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James Thurber and Elliott Nugent
The 1940's comedy which sounds like today, with protest, public controversy—all in a midwestern university town
July 15, 19, 25 Experimental Theatre
AH, WILDERNESS
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by Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill's great comedy of the 1930's about the "generation gap" at the turn of the century.
"In-the-Round" Main Stage
THE GRASS HARP
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Truman Capote
The comedy-fantasy of the 1950's about the people of spirit against the dogma of society in which they live
July 11,16,21,23
ONE-ACT PLAYS
"In-the-Round" Main Stage
1960 Comedies from Broadway
... OFF & OFF-OFF
July 12,17,24,26
Experimental Theatre
All performances 8:20 p.m. ● Tele. orders accepted; amount due on receipt of tickets ● Box Office UN 4-3982 (24 hour answering service) ● Hours 10-12 a.m., 1-5 p.m. ● 10-12 Saturdays if a performance that evening ● 7-9 p.m. performance nights
No Reserved Seats
Single admission tickets for individual shows $1.50 ● Season coupon books $4.00 each ● Coupon holders must exchange for tickets for each production prior to date specified on each coupon.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MURPHY HALL
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