Grad students given fellowships
Three KU graduate students have been awarded research fellowships in the national competition of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the 10 National Institutes of Health.
They are Mrs. Mary L. Fike, Lawrence; and William J. Klitz, Sacramento, Calif., in the department of zoology; and John C. Khoo in the department of biochemistry, KU Medical Center, Kansas City.
Mrs. Fike will use her fellowship for research on geographic distribution and genetic variation in fish. Klitz will work on the evolutionary genetics of house sparrow populations.
Khoo's research will be in immunochemical studies of yeast adenylate kinase.
Faculty to honor retiring members
Nearly two centuries of service to the state and region is tied up in the service records of six KU faculty members who will retire to emeritus status June 30.
Their 197 years of cumulative service at KU, an average of 32 and two-third years each, will be honored at the annual University Retirement Dinner May 5 in the Kansas Union.
The honorees will be: George W. Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering, 47 years; Miss Lottie Lesh, Independent Study Bureau, University Extension, 27 years; Eleanor Loeb, professor of social work, 14 years; Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, 20 years; Verner F. Smith, professor of architecture, 41 years, and James D. Strananthan, professor of physics, 28 years.
Regulations of the Kansas Board of Regents provide for retirement from teaching duties at age 70.
Adams receives foundation grant
Ralph N. Adams, chemistry professor has received a $75,000 National Science Foundation grant, said William J. Argersinger Jr, associate dean of faculties in charge of research.
The grant will finance a study of chemical reactions of compounds coupled with electron transfer processes.
KUOK to sponsor candidate debate
In conjunction with the upcoming campus elections, radio station KUOK today announced it will sponsor a one-hour debate between the three student body presidential candidates. The program will be aired from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday.
Each candidate will be given 8-10 minutes at the beginning of the program to introduce his coalition or party and make policy statements. The order will be determined by draw before the broadcast.
Surface to meet with Regents
KU Provost James R. Surface will represent Chancellor W. Clarke Wesco tomorrow at a
Kansas Board of Regents meeting in Emporia.
Wescoe is in Willimsburg, Va. attending a meeting of the Association of American Universities. He plans to return here in time for Kansas Relays events Saturday.
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three students selected for Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and this was more than from any other department in the nation.
"The new chairman should not have to face any major problems and the change should be a smooth one," Tobin said.
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"He is a likable man, and I'm sure that he is capable of handling the position."
Johnson succeeds Tobin as chairman of department of French and Italian
Johnson came to KU last fall from Princeton University, Tobin said. He said he was not surprised that Johnson had been selected to succeed him.
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Tobin came here in 1963 and was appointed as the first chairman of the department French and Italian in 1965.
Santa Barbara will be Tobin's new roost as director of the French department.
Although he likes Kansas, he said he will like living on the coast better. "Kansas is really not too exciting."
Speaking of the transition of posts, Tobin said, "I feel this is a good time to leave because the department is riding on the crest of a wave. Our department had
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