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VùUveruCCy Tteart Summer Courses in Distillation,, X-Ray& Chemical engineering study o n the Berkeley campus of the University of California this summer will include a course in distillation design methods, conducted at graduate level, b y Donald N . Hanson. T h i s course will run Aug. 2 t o Sept. 11. During the same session a laboratory course in the unit operations will be offered b y Theodore Vermeulen, in which special work in distillation will be arranged for those taking t h e previous course. I n the first summer session, June 21 t o July 31, Charles R. Wilke will teach an introductory course emphasizing chemical process calculations and the professional orientation of the chemical engineer. Of interest to chemists will b e two graduate seminars during the first session by David Harker o f General Electric Co*., covering the fields of x-ray diffraction and structural chemistry, and of intermetallic compounds. Further information about summer studies a t t h e university may be had from t h e Office of Summer Sessions, University of California, Berkeley 4 , Calif.
Merck
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T h e Merck Fellowship Board of the National Research Council has announced the awarding of 10 fellowships for the academic year 1948-49. Selections announced include ι D a v i d Henry Brown, Altadena, Calif., for studies i n the puri fication and characterization of enzymes from plant and animal tissues; Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Yonkers, Ν. Υ., for research in all phases of protein physical chemistry; Rufus Worth Lumry, Jr., Bismarck, N. D . , for investigation on the mechanism of enzymic catalysis; Clement Lawrence Markert, Baltimore, Md., for biochemical research in the growth and differentiation o f cells; and Gunthcr Siegmund Stent, Champaign, ill., for a better understanding of biological reac tions from point of view of thermody namics and reaction kinetics.
AEC-Sponsored Buildings at Ames A new research building i s being con structed at the Ames Laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission a t Iowa State College. It w i l l be a four-story concrete structure and will cost about $1.5 million with an additional $350,000 for equip ment. Completion is expected about September 1949. T h e land o n which the building will b e erected will be held by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission on a 99-year lease. T h e new research and metallurgy buildings represent an invest
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ment of slightly more than $3 million in construction and equipment. When both structures are completed most of the vari ous phases of the commission's program a t the Ames Laboratory will be con solidated thus increasing efficiency of the research operations and stepping up the training of young scientists in atomic energy fields now critically short of ex perienced technicians. A contract under N D l t C , predecessor of OSRD, was given to the Ames Labora tory in January 1941, almost a year before Pearl Harbor. Under the prodding of leading scientists, American and antiNazi European, i t had been decided to make a national effort t o find out whether a n atomic bomb w a s possible. At Iowa State College came perhaps a score of quick research successes, including the finding of practical ways to produce uranium metal of the extreme purity required, and Ames provided a substantial part of the metal used in t h e first self-sustaining chain-reactor of history. In November 1945 the permanent Iowa State College Institute for Atomic Research was authorized. The institute's purpose was to build u p and maintain a strong group of scientists working in the fundamental phases of physics and chem istry as they apply to nuclear processes; t o have available on t h e campus a group of experts the faculty can consult con cerning the application of these new tools; t o encourage cooperation and coordina tion in this type o f research; t o act as a central agency to deal with the Govern ment in obtaining isotopes, radioactive tracers, special counting instruments, and similar materials, and t o serve as a clear inghouse for special information; to act for the college i n cooperating with Argonne National Laboratory and asso ciated universities; t o conduct research i n nuclear and allied fields for the Govern ment; and to train graduate students.
Hormone
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The medical school of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will hold a sym posium on steroid hormones Sept. 6, 7, and 8 at the state university. This is to be a part of the University of Wisconsin centennial celebration and the sponsoring and participating groups, besides the medical echool, are the department of zoology, college of agriculture and bio chemistry division, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the committee on growth acting f o r the American Cancer Society, and t h e McArdle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research. This will be of special interest t o clinicians, chemists, biologists, and agricultural spe cialists.
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