Grants, Awards
Charles A. Sauer Jr., admissions officer, coordinator and instructor at the Intensive English Center at KU, will temporarily replace Clark Coan as dean of foreign students from Aug. 1 to Jan. 1, 1971.
Coan will be on sabbatical leave studying international exchange programming in Great Britain and western Europe.
Sauer, who was born in Korea and lived there for 17 years, earned both the B.A. degree in Oriental languages and the M.A. degree in linguistics and the teaching of English as a foreign language at the University of Michigan.
He joined the Intensive English Center staff in 1966, and represented the KU Center at a Conference on Intensive English Centers in San Francisco in 1968.
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Edward I. Shaw, professor of radiation biophysics, has received a contract of $51,609 from the division of nuclear education and training of the Atomic Energy Commission to finance a faculty training institute at the University of Kansas this summer.
Shaw, who is director of the institute, said 30 biology faculty from colleges and universities throughout the United States were selected to participate.
Course work for the institute, which runs from June 8 to Aug. 1, will concentrate on radiation biology subject matter with an emphasis on laboratory techniques.
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Richard T. Briggs, doctoral student from Princeton, N.J. in the department of physiology and cell biology has been awarded a predoctoral research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health for the academic year 1970-71. The grant of $5,100 will be used to support Mr. Briggs researches on the role of microtubules in the structure and function of white blood cells via electron-microscopy.
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Alan E. Organ, doctoral student from Philadelphia, Pa., in the department of physiology and cell biology has been awarded a predoctoral research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health for the academic year 1970-71. The grant of $5,100 will be used to support Organ's research on the mechanisms of water intake and elimination by single cells, especially protozoa, which have a specialized water-excretory vesicle.
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A research grant of $21,700 has been awarded to Jerome M. Yochim, associate professor of physiology & cell biology, by the National Institutes of Health. The award is a continuation grant for a second year of research studies on the effects of light and dark cycles on the implantation, development and delivery of the mammalian foetus. Yochim uses laboratory rats in the researches which are aimed at developing a biological model for the study of hormonal control of the processes of implantation and delivery of the foetus.
Math head is named
Paul Stalling Mostert, a member of the faculty of Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1953, has been appointed professor and chairman of the department of mathematics at KU.
Mostert will succeed G. Baley Price, head of the math department since 1951. Price is retiring in August as an administrator, but will remain on the faculty.
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