x x x x ✤ ✤ ✤ ✤ Campus Briefs NASA research grants Two grants totaling $182,880 have been made to the University of Kansas to encourage and finance interdisciplinary study in space and health-related research. The grantors are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Public Health Service. Both grants are available University-wide to departments interested in experiments related to either of these fields. American Studies LAWRENCE—The current issue of the Midcontinent American Studies Journal includes articles by a former University of Kansas graduate student and a professor who will be visiting professor at KU in 1970. The journal is edited by Stuart Levine, chairman of the KU American Studies program. One of the articles in the journal, "Fiction and Mennonite Life" is by Elmer F. Suderman, who received his doctorate degree from KU in 1961. Suderman is now chairman of the English Department at Gustavus Adolphus College and president of the American Studies Association of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Jay Gurian, who will be a visiting professor in the KU American Studies program in the spring of 1970, is author of "American Studies and the Creative Present," another of the articles. Outstanding woman A 1966 graduate of the University of Kansas has been named one of this year's Outstanding Young Women in America as a representative of Kansas. Miss Leah Palm of Junction City is a captain and physical therapist in the U.S. Army. She is now on assignment to the Madigan General Hospital in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to her graduation in occupational therapy from KU, Miss Palm worked as an accounting specialist at Fort Riley. Miss Palm is one of 5,500 women featured in the annual edition of the biographical compilation, "Outstanding Young Women of America." This is published to recognize young women between the ages of 21 and 35 who are outstanding in at least one field of endeavor—profession, home community, or other activities. Computation center The University of Kansas Computation Center in a recent month ran 16,820 jobs, an average of 642.1 jobs a day. Forty-one new projects were activated, ranging from one in anthropology to several in zoology. A professor at the University of Victoria in Toronto, Canada, is using the Center for a comparison of methods in quantitative geography. And Prof. R. Goodman of the University of Missouri is taking time on the KU computer for analysis of his data on the classification of apple tree disease. Jn.24 1969 KANSAN 3 Microbiology grant Work is now being conducted by scientists throughout the world to create the first artificial gene. Eventually, with this development, science may be able to correct certain genetic deficiencies in humans. However, before this is possible, the chemical changes in genes must be understood in order to make the new ones acceptable to the human cell. Dr. Bruce A. Molholt, assistant professor of microbiology, has been granted $43,209 by the U.S. Public Health Service for research on the chemical changes in bacteria involved in the genetic process. Dr. Molhot will study viruses which infect bacteria in the genetic material of a cell. These viruses contain DNA, or a sample glucose sugar. When the bacteria deprive the DNA of the glucose, the genetic material in the virus becomes inactive in bacterial cells. The KU study will attempt to identify the bacterial enzymes which destroy the genetic material in the viruses, thus protecting the cell's original genetic identity. New Sachem officers Sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's honor society, has elected its officers for 1969-70 at the University of Kansas. Membership in Sachem is based on scholarship, leadership, activities, and athletics, and must also have at least a 1.75 grade average. Officers in Sachem for next year are: Don Sloan, Topeka, president; Kent J. Longenecker, Shawnee Mission, vice-president; David Robert F. Burford, Blue Springs, Mo., won the Gertrude Goldsmith Book Award. This award is given to the highest ranked second year student. For excellence in history, Roger B. Kraft, Shawnee Mission, received the Junior History Book Award. The National Alpha Alpha Gamma school prize of $50 for the outstanding woman student in architecture was presented to Lorri Sipes, Overland Park. She also won the KU Chapter of A.A.G. annual book award. Eight KU School of Architecture and Urban Design students were awarded special awards for their work during the past year. Fred J. Coester, Lawrence, won the book award given by the School for excellence in architectural photography. THE HOUSE POLEGE 17 WEST 9th. - Sandals Handmade From $14.00 Choose from our styles and design your own. - Zodiac Signs and matches Candles Architecture awards Jeans, Independence, Mo., treasurer; John D. Mauk, Jr., Conway Springs, secretary; John Nelson, St Joseph, Mo., assistant to the president. - One of A Kind Gifts - Strobe Candles John R. Kelly, Chesterfield, Mo., was given the Thayer medal for general excellence in design. This annual medal was established by Mrs. Sally Thayer of Kansas City's Emery-Bird-Thayer's stores. Leather Goods Ceramics JAYHAWKER TOWERS Apartments Conglomerate of the Unique! - Handcrafts - Now renting 2-bedroom furnished apartments. All utilities included in rent. - Convenient Location, a Time and Money Saver. - Lawrence's Finest Interior Complex The main study will concentrate on what makes them grow, particularly considering environmental conditions. Some of the research will be done at KU and the remainder will be done this summer at the Woods Hole Marine Laboratory in Massachusetts. Lawrence's Finest Apartment Complex 1603 W. 15th Inspection Invited Tel. VI 3-4993 Working with Wyttenbach will be Gail Tucker, New York City graduate student in Zoology. Dennis W. Jacobs, Kansas City, Mo., received the American Institute of Architects medal, given to the graduate student with the Renewal grants of more than a quarter million dollars have been made to the University of Kansas School of Medicine for continuance of training programs. Dr. Russell C. Mills, associate dean of both the School of Medicine and the Graduate School for the Kansas City campus, will coordinate a $231,200 project for preparation of professional personnel for the education of handicapped children. A new grant for $30,000 from the National Science Foundation to Charles R. Wyttenbach, associate professor of zoology at the University of Kansas, will support research on colonial hydroids, cylinder-shaped sea anemone. The KU program, approved both the Public Health Service and the Atomic Energy Commission, trains graduate students in the M.S. or Ph.D. degree curriculums to be specialists on the effects of radioactivity to human health. Six fellowships are given each year by the department, some new and some renewals. Those involved with the program this year are: Medical school grants Peter Debus, Freeport N.Y.; Rose Gideon, Perry, Okla.; David Gridina, East Chicago, Ill.; Raymond Meyn, Kansas City; Raymond Nydegger, Lawrence; Larry Simpson, Satanta; William Vanderiet, Birmingham, Mich.; Dominic Scudierd, Villa Park, Ill. fourth year of a five-year funding program for health specialist trainees. Hydroids research Joseph E. King, Potwin, won the National Endowment for the Arts $250 travel-study grant for use in the U.S. to travel and visit outstanding works of environmental design this summer. Health specialists James Carl Alberts, Jefferson City, Mo., was selected for the John W. Davis Book Award for excellence in architectural studies. highest scholastic standing and promise of professional merit. The U.S. Public Health Service has granted $38,812 to the radiation biophysics department at the University of Kansas for the Dr. June B. Miller, professor of audiology, will have $51,437 for a demonstration home training program for parents of preschool age deaf children. 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