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Chemistry Students Star in Talent Search Westinghouse brings 40 winners in its 19th annual Science Talent Search to Washington, D.C., for the finals competition, with $34,000 in scholarships at stake. Some of the outstanding chemistry projects in the show are pictured here. FRANK A. PODOSEK, Ludlow, Mass., third place winner, has $5000 to help finance his college education. His project explores the reasons why liquids and their solutions expand differently when subjected to heat
WILLIAM L. R. CRUCE, Houston, Tex., displays his project showing applications for hydrogen peroxide as a rocket fuel
BETTY L. SNARR, Oklahoma City, Okla., wins a $3000 scholarship for discovering a new buffer electrolyte and using it in an improved technique for analyzing human blood sera 40
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JOSEPH P. STRALEY, Chapel Hill, N.C., demonstrates solubilities of chemicals in alcohol to show its solvent advantages
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JOYCE A. THOMPSON, Charleston, W.Va., measures the half-life of free radicals and explains their importance in plastics production
IRVING J . SPITZBERG, JR., Little Rock, Ark., studies reaction rates and mechanisms of sugar in alcohol-water-acid systems
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acquainting them with the nature and methods of research. Among the 1960 research projects, 15 are in chemistry only, and 4 3 include chemistry projects with other science and mathematics programs.
Some 550 science and math teachers will work in research this summer under t h e guidance of experienced scientists. About 400 of them will come from high schools and the other 150 from small colleges or junior colleges. The National Science Foundation is supporting their research at 54 U.S. colleges and universities. Its grants for 1960 total about $1 million. NSF first tried the summer research program on a national scale last year. Its objective: to add meaning to the subject matter instruction given to teachers in NSF summer institutes by
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Supply of Engineers-Ready to Slip The number of new engineering graduates will drop significantly in the years to come, reports the American Society for Engineering Education. Main reason for the decline: a two-year slowdown in freshman engineering enrollments—from 78,757 in fall 1957 to 68,000 in fall 1959—in spite of higher total freshman enrollments. But, for the immediate future, two other factors operate to reduce the number of B.S. engineers available for employment: Dropouts among engineering students have increased, and more engineers attend graduate school. On the basis of these trends, ASEE says, the 47,000 fulltime seniors enrolled in engineering this year (1959-60) will yield about 37,500 new B.S. engineering degrees, compared to 38,000 awarded in 1958-59. A further drop is in sight for 1960-61 since the full-time junior engineering enrollment is now less than 44,000.
