is being used on a series of flexural tests of various laminated and other plastics. A process laboratory is being developed in which will be provided characteristic equip ment such as molding presses, extrusion presses, coating and laminating machines with instrumentation for conducting tests on and studying these process operations in a very precise manner. Other laboratories are planned in the new Chemical Engineering Research building soon to be constructed. A strong series of graduate courses has also been developed. Of these courses the following are being given this year: Chemis try of Plastics Materials, G. E. Landt, offered at university campus in the fall quarter. 1944-45; Laboratory in Plastics Materials. Elizabeth Dyer, offered at university campu* during the winter quarter; Engineering De sign with Plastics, offered as a night course at Wilmington High School, fall quarter, 1944. This course, under the direction o< Dr. Landt, will be jçiven by a number ol plastics specialists, including T . D . Perry Resinous Products and Chemical Co. Philadelphia, Pa.; C. A. Nash. Bakelitt Corp., Bloomfield, N . J.; G . H. Mains °henolite Co., Kennett Square, Pa.; and W H. Adams. HavegCorp., Marsh all ton, Del. Other advanced courses in chemical engi neering offered at night in Wilmington thit year include Diffusional Operations, by R L. Pigford, fall quarter; and Drying o! Solids, b y W. R. Marshall, Jr., wintel quarter. These special lecturers are boti members of the Technical Division, Engi neering Department, E . 1. du Pont d< Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. I It is believed that the particular combij nation of research programs sponsorec through both university and industrie fellowships and the special graduate course in plastics which augment the regular ad vanced program in chemical engineering wil resolve into sources of opportunity for servie* to industry and the nation.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Plastics Program under NrVay at U n i v e r s i t y of Delaware Plans of the plastics division at the Uni versity of Delaware for the coming year, as recently announced, include research projects of two basic types and a graduate program of advanced courses in plastics technology. These plans follow the organi s a t i o n of the plastics division some two -years ago when an initial grant of $20,000 , was made to the university by Philadelphia '/Textile Finishers, Inc. Additional grants ] have permitted an expansion of activities, , ou/minating in the present organization and t program. Qecause of the many technological aspects, , engineering and chemical, involved in the * field of plastics, the University of Delaware τ has set up the plasties division encompassing . staff members from the pure sciences as well . as from engineering. It is believed that the T team work of scientists and technologists , from different fields of specialisation will ^provide the flexibility of approach necessary in treating this field of unusual complexity. The faculty organization contributing to this development includes: G. Έ. Landt,
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research professor of plastics; £ . M. Schocnborn, associate professor of chemical engi neering; Elizabeth Dyer, assistant professor of chemistry; and A. P. Col burn, professor of chemical engineering. Present emphasis is being made on research problems in high polymer chemistry and in engineering design. Fellowships have been awarded to Dorothy Levis and Katheryne Levis, who graduated from The Woman's College, University of North Carolina, in June. They have recently begun work, under the direction of Dr. Dyer, on two fundamental problems in the field of high polymer chemistry. A physical testing program, under the direction of Dr. Schoenborn, is under way in cooperation with the American Society for Testing Materials. For such purposes a physical laboratory has been constructed which is controlled for constant temperature and humidity. Perhaps the most important piece of apparatus so far installed is a TateEmery universal testing machine, manu factured by Baldwin-Southwark Corp. This
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Plans for establishing a Weizmann Insti tute of Science in Palestine, as a tribute t< Chaim Weizmann, president of the Work Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, were announced Ο,Ί his 70tl birthday, Nov. 27. The institute will bi located at Rehovoth. the site of the Danie SiefT Institute which has been under Drj Weizmann's direction since 1934. ι The new institute will be composed of fou departments, devoted to research in physicaj chemistry, pharmacology and chemotherapy plastics, and nutrition. Buildings, equip! ment, and the maintenance budget for th] first three years are expected to require ai • investment of $3,000,000, $2,000,000 of whicj is to be contributed by the sponsors an4 friends of the project in the United States Subscriptions exceeding $250,000 have at ready been received. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. f ha had a 500% increase in chemical researcl contracts since 1940, showing industry* appreciation of the service that university laboratories can provide. New researche include those of the Armstrong Cork Co. M analytical and leather technology, Bethlehen Steel Co. in physical chemistry and enemies engineering, and the Catalin Corp. of Americ in synthetic resins.
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