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California Group Forms Research Foundation ISRF sets instrumentation center as the first of a series of interuniversity research centers The Intra-Science Research Foundation, now taking shape in Los Angeles, may give birth to a new breed of interuniversity research centers. These centers will not only draw on the rich reservoir of scientists in southern California, but will also supplement the research activities of universities and other nonprofit institutions. If successful, ISRF sees the possibility of similar centers for other parts of the country. While the foundation is itself an infant, the first of its ventures, the Instrumentation Research Center, is well on the way to reality. The center's purpose will be to advance fundamental research projects that require complex instruments. But it will have other important functions as well: a
program for cooperative use of instruments, gathering and disseminating information, and training, for example. Guiding lights behind the ambitious project are Dr. Norman Kharasch, president of ISRF, and Dr. Joseph Schultz, executive vice president. The foundation does not intend to usurp legitimate functions of universities, says Dr. Kharasch, professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. It will, instead, supplement the facilities of university labs and, at the same time, undertake certain activities—such as arranging symposiums—that are too often a drain on the time of faculty members. Vital Ingredient. As an example of the foundation's approach, Dr. Kharasch points to the great need for
Intra-Science Research Foundation and Its Instrumentation Research Center Attract Many Top Scientists as Advisers or Consultants President:
Dr. Norman Kharasch, professor of chemistry, USC
Executive vice president: Treasurer: Secretary:
Dr. Joseph Schultz
Dr. S. R. Baker, associate professor of clinical medicine, UCLA Robert S. Cogen, attorney, Los Angeles
Board of advisers: Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, director, Allan Hancock Foundation, USC Dr. A. J. Haagen-Smit, professor, division of biology, Caltech Dr. Milton C. Kloetzel, dean, graduate school, USC Dr. Robert E. Vivian, former dean of engineering. USC (now adviser to regents, California State Colleges) Dr. William G. Young, professor of chemistry and vice chancellor, UCLA Dr. Wallace R. Brode, consultant, Washington, D.C. Mark S. Massel, senior staff member, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Peter Davis, director, Scantlin Electronics, Inc., Los Angeles Dr. W. G. McMillan, head, chemistry department, USC, and consultant, Rand Corp. INSTRUMENTATION
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Senior research associates: Dr. J. Donohue, department of chemistry, USC (chrystallography) Dr. R. E. Pecsok, chemistry department, UCLA (gas chromatography) Dr. Howard Taylor, chemistry department, USC; consultant. Caltech's jet propulsion labs (theoretical chemistry) Dr. Gordon Fergusson, department of geophysics, UCLA (nuclear chemistry) Dr. David A. Dows, USC, National Science Foundation research fellow, currently at Oxford (spectroscopy) Dr. John P. Meehan, USC (space physiology)
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• A library of books and journals on instrumentation. • An exhibit hall, where instrument firms can demonstrate their latest equipment in conjunction with workshops and symposiums. • An information clearing house containing company circulars, brochures, and literature. • An employment and equipment clearing house. • A monthly bulletin, called Measure to report the center's activities. Laboratories. The backbone of the instrumentation center, however,
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the instrumentation center. Next to ideas and people, he says, instrumentation is the most vital ingredient for solving research problems successfully. Many instruments are expensive to buy, to house, and to maintain. It is often easy for a large institution to justify buying an expensive instrument because the data it furnishes are so valuable to so many that the unit will be used very often, if not continuously. In smaller laboratories, though, such a purchase is harder to justify. Even in large laboratories, certain instruments are sometimes needed only for specific research projects, then may lie unused for long periods before a need for them comes up again. Often, workers in different institutions need a particular instrument for a short time. But none of them can see their way clear to saddling their department with a permanent, little-used piece of equipment. Thus, with its laboratories and auxiliary services, the Instrumentation Research Center will support and extend the efforts of research workers, Dr. Kharasch believes. ISRF is getting enthusiastic support from many scientists, not only in southern California, but in other parts of the U.S. as well. Already, 16 of them have accepted positions on ISRF's advisory board or on the consultant staff of the instrumentation center. Administration of the foundation will be by a board of directors. USC and the University of California, Los Angeles, have already agreed to place an official representative on the board. Other institutions are considering doing the same. Besides featuring a laboratory in each field of instrumentation, the center will have classrooms for instruction, lectures, and symposiums. To bolster the research and training, it will also include a variety of other services :
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