Grants Awards
A one-year pilot study of community-controlled sanctions in a Kansas City housing project will be organized by Todd R. Risley of the University of Kansas with a $25,879 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the U.S.Public Health Service.
Risley, who is associate professor of human development and family life, will assist representatives of the Juniper Gardens Tenants Association in clarifying and elaborating the Juniper Gardens Resident's Code of Conduct. The code was drawn up by the residents of the Juniper Gardens Housing Project in 1967.
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Thirty-two scholarships totaling $8,320 have been awarded to students in the William Allen White School of Journalism for the 1970-71 school year. One new scholarship, the $400 Lucille Bluford award, is yet to be awarded.
This is the greatest amount of money and the largest number of scholarships awarded by the School of Journalism, said Lee F. Young, acting dean and scholarship chairman.
The Eugene C. Pulliam, Francis Elizabeth Taylor and Bluford scholarships are new this year.
The most valuable grant, the new Eugene C. Pulliam award of $1,000 to the junior showing the most promise of future achievement, went to Monroe Dodd, Shreveport, La., for his senior year.
Other awards vary in amounts from $50 to $500.
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A training grant of $63,888 from the National Institute of Mental Health will provide support for 10 graduate students in psychiatric social work and help support the teaching program in 1970-71.
Mrs. Mildred Webb Sigler, associate professor of social work, will be project director for the grant, which will finance continuation of a long-standing program of field work and classroom training leading to the degree master of social work.
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Robert B. Welch, associate professor of psychology, financed by a first-year grant of $17,238 from the National Eye Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service, is starting a study of "Human Adaptation to Prism-displaced Vision."
Welch said he will observe behavior of a small group wearing welder's goggles equipped with wedge prisms that shift the field of vision to one side.
Although Welch said his primary aim is to learn more about the development and structure of the eye which enables humans to perceive in three dimensions, he said findings might also be useful in prescribing corrective spectacles.
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An unrestricted grant of more than $5,000 has been made to the School of Business by alumni in the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Company, Dean Clifford D. Clark has announced.
The gift represents a direct grant of $1,000 from the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Foundation and personal contributions and matching gifts of KU alumni in the accounting firm.
Expenditures of the School of Business from private sources now amount to more than 10 percent of normal budgetary sources, according to Dean Clark. Since some gifts are for specific purposes, unrestricted gifts are highly useful, he added.
June 19
1970 KANSAN 7
World a glance away in Spencer
Want to explore the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia? Locate the mines in California's Inyo County? Get a visual representation of the oil and gas industry in Illinois? Study the street plan of the royal burgh of Aberdeen, Scotland? Or learn graphically about the agricultural potential of Lesotho?
The answers are in just a few of the maps in the University of Kansas map library. Occupying four spacious rooms in the base-mement of Kenneth Spencer Research Library, the map library contains about 120,000 maps and atlas plates with numerous accompanying texts in many languages.
Jennie Dienes, map library assistant, said the staff is presently counting the maps in the collection to determine the exact size and to ascertain how many duplications have been added over the years.
Much has been done to arrange the maps for easy use by the public since the library was moved from cramped quarters in Lindley Hall to the Spencer Library in December of 1968.
Mrs. Dienes said the increased space not only allowed expansion of the collection, but also enabled her to implement a simplified classification organized by Thomas R. Smith, a geographer and East Asian area specialist.
Unlike the complicated system used by the Library of Congress, the nation's largest map library, Smith's system relies on area, subject and scale to determine classifications. Smith's system is easily applied to a collection the size of KU's.
The KU map library contains maps of all kinds in nearly every language in the world. Looking about the reading room, one can
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readily pick out selections in all the European languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and many of the African languages.
The college also provided the team that played the first basketball game west of the Allegheny Mountains in 1897.
With the concentrated space exploration of the last 10 years, Mrs. Dienes said the library has received a number of lunar maps and two topographical maps of Mars.
The collection is current, that is, all maps were made since 1900. Mrs. Dienes said earlier maps, especially those dated before 1850, are kept in the special
collections section of Spencer Library. Maps of the Kansas-Missouri area are maintained in the Regional History section.
The map library is part of the KU general library system and is available to anyone. Although the most frequent users are students in geology and geography, Mrs. Dienes receives requests for maps from other departments and from private citizens.
Many of the maps came from such agencies as the U.S. Geological Survey and military mapmaking departments. Others came
from private publishers and national agencies in other countries.
Perhaps the largest source, however, is the Library of Congress. Under an exchange program, the KU map library sends a staff member to Washington to work in the Library of Congress for a set period, usually four weeks. In return, KU can select a large number of maps to be duplicated by the Library of Congress and added to the KU collection. Last summer the Kansas library obtained about 3,000 new maps under this program.
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