Grants, Awards
The problems of efficient collection and disposal of solid waste materials will be studied by five University of Kansas graduate students during the 1970-71 academic year.
The five are trainees in a program funded for the fourth year by a $53,121 grant from the Environmental Control Administration of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Ross E. McKinney, the Parker professor of civil engineering and program director, said the five will do laboratory analysis of solid waste materials and study management and organizational aspects of disposal to establish an effective collection and disposal system.
Under the program the students will work closely with the city of Lawrence in mapping out new sanitary land fill sites north of town. Soil samples and solid waste samples will be collected and analyzed to determine the impact of waste deterioration on the environment.
The program will train the five for positions in municipal and state public works departments and as independent contractors specializing in the management of solid waste collection systems.
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Alan M. Thompson, professor of physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has been appointed associate dean of the Graduate School for graduate affairs at the Medical Center campus.
Thompson succeeds Russell C. Mills, professor of biochemistry, who will retain the position of associate dean of the School of Medicine in charge of grants and contracts. Mills will be on sabbatical leave this year.
Dean Thompson is a native of Omaha and veteran of Army service in World War II. He earned the B.S. degree with honors from Iowa State University in 1949 and won a three-year Atomic Energy Commission predoctoral fellowship to the University of Minnesota. Later he was a Ford Foundation college teaching intern and an instructor at Minnesota while earning the Ph.D. degree, received in 1956.
After a year as research fellow in physiology at Minnesota, Dean Thompson was an instructor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1958-59, and was assistant professor at Iowa State University 1959-62. In the latter year he came to the KU Medical Center as associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1966.
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Training in the safe handling of radioactive materials and the health aspects of radiation will occupy the 1970-71 academic year for four University of Kansas graduate students.
The four will work in a training program corresponding to their studies for master's or doctoral degrees. The program, now in its fifth year, has been funded by a $46,703 training grant from the Environmental Control Administration of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Frank E. Hoecker, professor of radiation biophysics and program director, said the four students will train as radiological health specialists or health physicists. They will study the proper methods of handling radioactive materials to achieve maximum safety.
Hoecker said graduates of the program have gone on to jobs in industrial plants, medical and governmental laboratories and with colleges and universities throughout the country.
Their work consists of supervising the use of all radioactive materials to protect other employees.
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One of the original thinkers in the field of social work has begun a one-year visiting professorship in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas.
He is William Edwin Gordon, professor of research in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. He will teach a graduate course in research and develop a program of seminars and workshops for the KU faculty, emphasizing the scientific aspects of social work, Dean Arthur J. Katz said.
Gordon is known for his approaches to social work as an independent social science. He was one of an early group who asserted that social workers should contribute their own research rather than borrow theories from other social sciences.
This belief in the value of scientific research, a departure from the traditional view that a social worker should rely chiefly on intuitive feelings, is gaining acceptance.
Gordon also was among the first experts to urge that the individual and his environment be treated concurrently.
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An administrator for the Nebraska Department of Welfare will head the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare's new program for strengthening the capabilities of social workers already in the field
Harold G. Washington, since 1968 chief of the division of staff development and personnel in the Nebraska operation, came to the KU school's new position of director of continuing education July 1.
The social welfare school at KU began its continuing education program this summer with nine institutes on five topics at several Kansas cities.
Washington will be responsible for organizing courses, institutes and seminars for social practitioners in Kansas.
In Nebraska, Washington was responsible for the professional development of the public welfare department's 1,200 employees. This spring he chaired the planning committee for a statewide seminar on juvenile delinquency.
Charles A. Kiesler of Yale University has joined the University of Kansas faculty as professor and chairman of the department of psychology.
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He heads a department of more than 25 professors, which is one of the large producers of undergraduate majors and whose production of doctorates last year was exceeded in the University only by education and chemistry. Howard Baumgartel was acting chairman the past year.
Kiesler, who will be 36 next month, has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1964 and an associate professor since 1966. He earned the B.A. degree from Michigan State University in 1958, the M.A. from Michigan State in 1960 and in 1963, the Ph.D. from Stanford, where he held a National Institute of Mental Health predoctoral fellowship. He was assistant professor of Ohio State University one year before being called to Yale.
July 21
1970 KANSAN 9
KU has its own glass blower
In the basement of Malott Hail is a door that leads to one of the most unusual occupations on this campus. The sign on the door reads: "Walter Logan-Glassblowing Shop." The University of Kansas has its own glassblower in resident.
By NANCY ABRAMS Kansan Staff Writer
Logan has been with the University for 26 years and has been blowing glass since 1948. When KU's first glassblower went to Oakridge, Tenn., a replacement was needed. Logan had been interested in glassblowing and had watched glass being blown, so he volunteered for the job.
He learned the process by the method commonly referred to as "do-it-yourself." Logan read books on glassblowing until he felt he was up to trying it for himself. Repairing broken laboratory equipment was the first thing he tried. After he became quite good at fixing broken things, he decided to tackle the job of creating.
Students interested in chemistry or some other subject in which they need to have special equipment came to Logan with their designs. If they weren't too big, Logan tried them. It is easier to have these instruments made here than to have to send away for them, and much time is saved by having a glass-blower on the campus.
The glassblowing shop is very well equipped with all the machines needed to turn out good products.
First of all, Logan reads and studies the design given him. The rest is like a jigsaw puzzle. In the shop are rows and rows of little glass tubes and ground joints which are all put together to form instruments.
The blowing part comes when a long tube is made into a bulb. Lathes are used for very large glass objects.
Logan said the hardest part in making equipment was bending a tube so that it fits the other parts together perfectly. Under a special light, strains are seen in the glass and it is put into a kiln-like oven until the strains disappear.
Logan often takes some scrap glass and "keeps in practice" making creative glass objects.
The glass is softened first, using a burner.
In a case are some of the things Logan has made from scrap glass. One of the most interesting pieces is an airplane made entirely out of blown glass. Included in the display are some vases, glasses and miniature pitchers with cork tops.
Logan does much of his work for the KU chemistry department, the medical center in Kansas
City, and V.A. hospitals, so he manages to keep busy. His only complaint is that by the time he returns from his month-long vacation, which is being cut short this year because of early opening, all his work has piled up. He has no assistants.
Logan is one of the few glassblowers in this part of the country.
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