Grants Awards
John Spaulding, associate professor of pediatrics, has been named director of the $2.8 million Kansas City University Affiliated Facility (UAF), soon to be built at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The UAF is part of the Medical Center branch of the Kansas Center for Human Growth and Development, a tri-campus program with other locations at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. Dr. Herbert C. Miller, chairman of pediatrics, has served as interim director for the UAF here.
Dr. Spaulding will coordinate the activities of the UAF with the Medical Center's Children's Rehabilitation Unit, of which he is also director. The UAF program will be an extension of the present interdisciplinary training program in the CRU.
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Fourteen predoctoral students at KU will study clinical psychology as it relates to community mental health during the 1970-71 academic year under one of the oldest continuing grants awarded to the University.
This year's funding by the National Institute of Mental Health for $113,271 marks the 22nd year of support for the clinical psychology training program at KU.
Eric M. Wright, professor of psychology, said the grant will finance class and field work by the 14 students and partially support expenses for faculty involved in the program.
All 14 Ph.D. candidates will be assigned to mental health facilities either at the University or in the Lawrence area where they will participate in treatment and psychotherapy of clients and assess encounter group situations of clients in their families, schools and other social groups.
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Two graduating seniors in architecture have received American Institute awards for excellence.
John R. Kelly, a January graduate from Chesterfield, Mo., received the Thayer medal for excellence in design and the AIA medal and award for scholastic achievement and promise of professional ability.
Joseph E. King, June graduate from Potwin, received the AIA certificate of merit given to the senior who is runner-up for the AIA medal. King also received the Alpha Rho Chi medal from the national social-professional fraternity in architecture.
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Eleven undergraduate mathematicians are participating in a special research program of topological spaces at the University of Kansas. The 10-week program, June 8-Aug. 14, is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Three faculty members from the staff of the mathematics department are in charge of the project. Dr. G. B. Price, chairman of the mathematics department is director, and Drs. Jack R. Porter and Charles J. Himmelberg are research supervisors.
Participating students receive a $600 stipend for their research work.
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A University of Kansas research team, headed by Lugene Houston, assistant professor of biochemistry, will delve into the complex makeup of living cells in a study of nine growth enzymes and their respective reactions.
The first year of the three-year project is being funded by a $15,702 research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.
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