KU a major contributor to health physics program
As the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Special Fellowship Program in Health Physics celebrates its 20th birthday this month, the University of Kansas can free to eat a major portion of the cake.
A member of the program for 13 years, KU has contributed more than 100 of the 1,200 graduate fellowships awarded under the program. This total includes 67 new fellows across the nation and seven from KU for the 1969- 70 academic year.
Frank E. Hoecker, professor of radiation biophysics, has been director of the program at KU since its inception.
In an age of specialization, health physics stands out as being somewhat unique. It is concerned with research and protection in the radiation sciences.
Hoecker does not believe a humanitarian zeal is what prompts
Dean gets grant
Dr. Earl S. Huyser, professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, has received a $15,108 grant from the U.S. Public Health Servire for research on hydrogen transfer reactions.
Dr. Huyser, a specialist in organic chemistry, will be starting his eight year of study on this project which concerns atom transfer reaction and biochemical reactions. Recommendation for the award came from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.
Working with Dr. Huyser will be two graduate students, each a candidate for the Ph.D. degree.
USPHS grant given
Dr. Arthur Katz, dean of the University of Kansas School of Social Work, has received a grant of $48,198 from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare for a social work training project at the university level.
Dean Katz said he and colleagues will organize seminars and institutes for the development of practicing professionals who have at least a master's degree in social work and for the advanced training of KU faculty members in social work. The project will involve from 40 to 50 persons.
most students to seek a fellowship in the program.
"I think it's fair interest in radiation and its effect on materials," Hoecker says. He also said with some it's an "abstract interest" and with others it is an interest in "how radiation interacts with biological organisms."
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Hoecker says many graduates of the program enter jobs in hospitals, while others go into health programs in government laboratories or into university teaching.
Concerning the financial prospects for a graduate from the program, Hoecker points to a recent Ph.D. graduate in health physics who received $14,000 as a startling salary. He said graduates with a master's degree earn between $10,000 and $12,000 their first year.
The program originated in 1949 when S.E.C. instructed the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Institute of Nuclear Studies—now Oak Ridge Associated Universities—to develop and administer a fellowship program in health physics.
Training includes special courses of study at the university and practical experience at national laboratories in handling problems related to radiation monitoring, shielding, waste disposal, and other aspects of nuclear research and technology.
The fellowships at KU are open to persons with undergraduate majors in physics, chemistry, engineering and some biological sciences.
First-year fellowship holders spend nine months at KU and three months at one of the A.E.C. Nuclear Reactor Testing stations.
New frosh take honors classes
Eighteen recent high school graduates are presently participating in the University of Kansas Honors Summer Institute, June 9-August. 2.
The institute sponsored by the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for selected high school graduates, consists of a combination of honors courses in biology, English, history and philosophy.
Those freshmen participating are: Linda J. Barclay, Shawnee Mission; Timothy J. Basham, Eureka; Larry H. Batty, Raytown Mo.; Helen Behmann, Kansas City; Susan D. Casement, Sedan; Ramona Curry, Council Grove; Darryl Ann Dutton, Colby; David A. Eisenstark, Manhattan.
Also attending are: Leroy E. Euler, Watenahe; William Robin McDonald, Larned; Christine L. Nelson, Chanute; Jane D. Ott, Eudora; Steven M. Ramberg, Topeka; Paul R. Schowalter, Wichita; Margaret R. Taylor, Kansas City; Jerry L. Totten, Jewell; Patti Wiggins, Independence; Barbara L. Schmidt, Pawnee Rock.
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