Grants, Awards
Jeff B. Weinberg, Lawrence, will become an assistant director of the office of Financial Aids at the University of Kansas August 1, Robert Billings, director, said today.
Weinberg, a history teacher at Lawrence High School for six years and a KU alumnus, will be advising students of specifications and eligibility for all aid programs, including scholarships, government and foundation loans and study and training grants.
Weinberg attended Coffeyville Junior College in his hometown and earned the B.S. degree from KU in 1964. While teaching in the high school he continued work for the M.A. degree, received this year.
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The Center for Research at the University of Kansas Thursday (July 9) became the owner by gift of a single-engine Cardinal aircraft in ceremonies at the Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita.
David L. Kohlman, professor and chairman of the department of aerospace engineering at the University, received the keys to the plane from V. G. Weddle, vice-president and general manager of Cessna's Commercial Aircraft Division.
Kohlman said the plane, which carries four persons, will be hanged at the Lawrence Municipal Airport and flown as a test plane. For the next two years, it will be used in connection with a $57,000 research grant financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The NASA-related research will include a study of control methods for general aviation aircraft. The Center hopes to develop control systems and improved high lift devices for better handling.
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The United Steelworkers of America have honored E. A. McFarland, retiring director of institutes and conferences at the University of Kansas, for his 22 years of "outstanding and dedicated service" in organizing the annual summer Steelworkers Institute at KU.
The 24th annual institute, attended by 85 steelworkers, mostly from Greater Kansas City, has been in progress this week.
Governor Robert B. Docking made the presentation of the Steel-workers' plaque to McFarland during the annual Management-Workers dinner at the Ramada Inn.
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The psychology of language and verbal learning and physiological psychology are the subjects for study by four University of Kansas graduate students in the 1970-71 academic year.
The four have been named trainees for the sixth year of a program funded by a $31,901 training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Edward L. Wike, professor of psychology, said the four will spend much of their time in laboratory research in their chosen areas of experimental psychology. Experiments will vary to include children, college students and animals.
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A former official with the U.S. Office of Education visited the University of Kansas this week to observe the Bureau of Child Research and the Lawrence facilities of the Kansas Center for Human Development.
James J. Gallagher, former deputy assistant secretary for research, planning and evaluation with the Office of Education, came to the KU campus to observe child research facilities in preparation for his new position as Kennan professor of education and director of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The center specializes in training professional clinicians for work with retarded children and provides some out-patient services.
Gallagher, who is visiting similar research centers throughout the country, observed the nursery school and child research laboratories at KU and met with various faculty members to discuss the operation and organization of the facilities.
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Glee Sidney Smith III, Larned, is the winner of the 1970 United States "Law Week" Award at the University of Kansas School of Law, Dean Lawrence E. Blades announced today.
The award, a prize of about $160 value, is presented to the graduating law student, who, in the opinion of the faculty committee, has made the most scholastic progress in his final year.
The award consists of a year's complimentary subscription to "Law Week," which reports weekly on important new court decisions and federal agency rules and all Supreme Court opinions.
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J. Knox Jones, professor of systematics and ecology and associate director of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas, has been appointed dean of the Texas Tech University Graduate School.
The appointment is effective June 1, 1971, and until then Jones will spend a few days each month in Texas.
"We are extremely fortunate to gain the services of such a distinguished biologist as Dr. Jones to head our Graduate School," President Grover E. Murray of Texas Tech said. "And his experiences in the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas will be most helpful in the development of our own museum program."
Jones joined the faculty at KU as assistant professor of zoology and assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Natural History after receiving his Ph.D. degree in zoology and paleontology from KU in 1962. In 1965 he became an associate professor and associate curator.
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Robert D. Ellermeier, associate dean of the KU Graduate School, said the supplement provides for the appointment of two additional new graduate trainees. The initial grant of $172,228 was to fund graduate study for 1970-71 by 11 new graduate students and 20, who are in their second or third year of study under the program.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Kansas a $10,120 supplemental grant to support two additional trainees under the NSF Graduate Traineeship Program. The supplement brings the University's total award for the program to $182,348 for the 1970-71 academic year.
Eight summer traineeships were also covered by the initial award which was announced last spring.
The NSF traineeship program covers all fields in the natural and social sciences and includes interdisciplinary fields such as geochemistry and meteorology. Mathematics and engineering are also included.
KU is one of 89 U.S. institutions to receive a supplemental grant.
Each traineeship provides a basic 12-month stipend for $2,400 for first-year students; $2,600 for intermediate-level students and $2,800 for students in their final year. Additional allowances are made for dependents.
8 KANSAN July 28 1970.
Clues sought in bombing murder
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—Phillip J. Lucier, president of the Continental Telephone Corp., was to be buried today while police combed the suburban Clayton office building for witnesses who might have seen a bomb planted in his car.
Lucier, father of 11, was killed Friday after he and two company vice-presidents left the multi-story Pierre Lacade Building, where they had lunch. The investigation in the building was held up because it emptied out for the weekend.
"We'll pound on every door of every floor," Clayton Police Sgt. Keith MacConnell said.
Meanwhile, services for the 49 year old Lucier were set for today at St. Roch's Roman Catholic Church, whose grade school all of Lucier's 11 children have attended.
A "pipe bomb" containing black powder under the drivers seat of Lucier's black 1966 Cadillac had been wired to the ignition switch. As Luciur started the car, the bomb went off, killing him instantly.
The two vice-presidents, James L. Robb and James V. Napier, were opening the car doors and were showered by glass, but were not injured.
Lucier, well liked in the St. Louis business community, founded Continental Telephone in 1961. The firm has grown to be a billion dollar operation and is the third largest telephone utility in the nation.
Investigators were not discounting the possibility of mistaken identity, although the evidence appeared to be against it, police said.
They said the bombing was done in a professional manner—Lucier often ate at the St. Louis Club in the Pierre Laclede Building. Furthermore, a man who may have witnessed the placing of the bomb in the auto said he
saw no other black Cadillac near Lucier's car.
The witness, who asked that his identity be withheld, told police he saw a broad shouldered man over the age of 25, in a business suit, sitting in the Lucier car 30 minutes before the bomb exploded.
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