Grants Awards
Dr. Robert B. Sanders, assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Kansas, has been awarded a summer research fellowship as visiting scientist at the Batelle Research Laboratories in Richland, Wash.
Dr. Sanders will investigate the mechanisms of amino-acid transport from the surrounding medium into microorganisms as an indicator of how these "building blocks," which make up proteins, are taken up by and incorporated into the protein of the cell.
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The University of Kansas has received a $14,742 research grant from the U.S. Public Health Service for continuation of a study on the fine microtubules and endocrine pancreas by Dr. Paul R. Burton, associate professor of physiology and cell biology.
The study, which began in 1968, will be continued as planned through May 1971 at the recommendation of the National Advisory Council on Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Floyd R. Horowitz of the University of Kansas English department will be chairman of the humanities section of a Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula June 16-18 at the University of Iowa.
His group, meeting on June 16, will consider computer animated film for art and education, sentence generation through visual cues, computer - supplemented Latin instruction.
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Two University of Kansas graduate students, Maria Marques, Cordoba, Argentina, and Kyung Sook Lee, Korea, are recipients of major scholarships for 1970-71 from the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund.
The scholarships of $1,400 each will cover tuition, books and supplies. Miss Marques is studying linguistics, and Miss Kyung is doing work in political science.
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Dr. Frederick E. Samson, Jr., professor and chairman of the department of physiology and cell biology at the University of Kansas, again has been appointed a summer scientist in the neurosciences and brain research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge. Mass
As for several summers, Dr. Samson will participate in colloquia and research dealing with the physical basis for brain functions, especially at the nerve-cell level. He and other participants will discuss and screen information on brain researches from laboratories all over the world for the preparation of an annual report on the current status of knowledge about brain functions.
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Five students were honored by the University of Kansas department of microbiology in ceremonies at the University State Bank.
The Cassandra Ritter Memorial Award for undergraduate and graduate scholastic excellence went to Edith Lord, senior from Kingman. John E. Findley, Lawrence, and Setsuko Yasuda, Tokyo, Japan, were the graduate winners.
The Scientific Products Award was presented to Connie Coleman, graduate student, Lawrence, for excellence in teaching.
Graduate fellow awards for the most contributions to other graduate students were received by Anne Rankin, a master's degree candidate, Kansas City; and John E. Findley, doctoral candidate, Lawrence.
June 12
1970
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Weltmer is recipient of first Bubb award
W. Keith Weltmer, professor or business administration, is the recipient of the first Henry A. Bubb Award for Distinguished Teaching in Business, it has been announced by Dean Clifford D. Clark of the University of Kansas School of Business.
The award was established by Mr. Bubb, chairman of the board of Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association, Topeka, to recognize and encourage outstanding classroom teaching.
To select the recipient, the KU Business Council, a student organization, distributed a questionnaire to all Business School students. Evaluations were then submitted to a committee of two faculty members, two undergraduates, and one graduate student who made the unanimous selection.
Professor Weltmer has been on the Kansas faculty since 1946, holding the rank of professor since 1958. He teaches in the field of business law and is currently writing a text for classroom use next fall.
Professor Weltmert holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Washburn University and the M.B.A. from the University of Kansas. In 1968 he received the Standard Oil Company Foundation Award for
Keith Weltmer
Distinguished Teaching and in 1964 was honored as "Hill Teacher" by the Jayhawk yearbook. He is an honorary member of the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants and a brigadier general in the Kansas National Guard.
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