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              tu Concern of Latin A/fairs
Regional Director Names UM As A
By WINFRFI) I . GODWIN
Director. Southern Regional Education Board
The increased concern of the American people with Latin American affairs is reflected in a new Institute of Inter-American Studies opening this September at the University of Miami, one of eight Latin American language and area centers to be established under the National Defense Education Act.
The University of Miami has been oriented toward Latin American studies and events since its founding in 1926. Its charter recognized Miami’s unique location between the Americas as a vehicle for “promoting inter-American friendship and understanding for conducting research in the scientific, technical and social problems of the tropics.”
Roth graduates and undergraduate students at the new Institute of Inter-American Studies will he primarily concerned with the shaping of American societies, the cultural heritage and setting of the Americas, the institutional. ideological and natural forces working for and
against hemispheric interdependence and solidarity, the problems of modernization in developing societies, and the conflicts and competition between international Communism and Western values.
Of the new institute, University of Miami president Henry King Stanford says: “We seek a genuine inter-American center where scholars from both hemispheres can pool their resources, fully explain and explore their differences and build sounder and more meaningful understandings.
“Further, we wish to provide a milieu in which both we and our Latin American colleagues can view ourselves and our common and separate problems in their world setting . . . the Institutes of Inter-American Studies aims at excellence in the whole range of world affairs.”
Allied with the Institute is a new “study-abroad" program which will also he inaugurated at the University of Miami this fall. Under an arrangement with the Latin \merican program of the Great l akes Colleges \ssocia-
tion. U.S. students at the Miami Institute will he able to take one or two semesters of intensive study at Bttgola, Columbia, as an interlude during the course of their work at CM.
Living with a group of carefully chosen Columbian families, students will concentrate on Spanish, history, economies, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography. international relations, literature and art. With all Columbian University credits applicable toward a degree in the U.S., the cost of the sojourn there will be no greater than that of a comparable period at the University of Miami.
Cuba and Castro and, more recently, the crisis in the Dominican Republic, have abruptly and fearfully awakened the American people to the necessity of a close and understanding alliance with our Latin American neighbors. The new Institute at the University of Miami is encouraging evidence of the involvement of higher education in a pressing national problem.
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US Biological Institute Hears UMResearch Team
A fruit-preserving technique known since the 1920’s has become a valuable keyhole to the understanding of the mechanisms of hormones for a University of Miami husband-and-wife research team.
Dr. Stanley P. and Mrs. Ellen A. Burg reported their work to the 16th annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois, Monday.
"Controlled atmosphere storage," in which suhstantial concentrations of carbon dioxide are allowed to accumulate, and oxygen to become depleted in closed rooms containing un-ripened fruit, has been used commercially for many years. This condition reduces respiration of the fruit, delaying its ripening.
Using modern scientific techniques, the Burgs have found that the response to carbon dioxide is a result of fierce molecular competition between it and the hormone known as “ethylene," while oxygen is required for ethylene to act.
Ethylene is a ripening hormone common to many and perhaps all fruits, the Burgs reported. “We are not ready to say it is the ripening hormone, but it appears to be the principal one.
A small amount of ethylene is present in fruits at all stages of their lives, they explain. Ripening is precipitated when certain factors cause the ethv-
lene quantity to increase across a specific threshold.
The Burgs reason that CO; can repress ripening because both it and ethylene are chemically at- j traded to the same molecular receptors within the cell.
Since thylene has a million j times greater affinity for these ; receptors than CO, the relatively ! large amounts of CO-' needed for “controlled atmosphere storage” are explained.
Continuing work is aimed at the nature of the receptor which ! attracts both CO* and ethylene. Because of the chemical structure and behavior of both substances, the Burgs reason that the receptor site contains metal.
The Miami researchers currently are growing special tomato plants in environments devoid of individual nutrient substances, such as copper, iron. maganese, magnesium, etc. Plants lacking the metal contained in the thylene receptor should he unable to detect the hormone when it is added, they theorize.
Other studies by the Burgs utilize the growth hormone, au- : xin, “tagged” with low-level j radioactive carbon (CM) to examine the destruction and transport of the hormone in cells of j the plant.
The above scene of students at the library will become more intense next week in preparation for Final Examinations of the Second Summer Session. The examination schedule appears on this page.
Exploratory Equipment
Final Examination Schedule Released
All examinations will take place in the rooms in which the individual classes have been meeting, If a conflict in the examination schedule should occur, the student should consult the instructors whose courses in which the conflicts occur. When an alternate time or times have been arranged, the Academic Dean should be informed. Final examinations are scheduled as follows:
Day Classes
Exam Will Be Given: 8:00- 9:50, Fri. Aug. 27 12:30- 2:20, Fri. Aug. 27 4:30- 6:20, Fri. Aug. 27 10:00-11:50, Fri. Aug. 27 2:30- 4:20, Fri. Aug. 27
Evening Classes
If the Class Meets at:	Exam Will Be Given:
1st period in evening	4:30-6:20, Thurs. Aug. 26
2nd period in evening	7:00-8:50, Thurs. Aug. 26
3rd period in evening 7:00-8:50, Fri. Aug. 27
the Class Meets at: 8:00 or 8:30 a.m. 9:30 or 10:00 a.m. 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. 12:30 or 1:00 p.m. 2:00 or 2:30 p.m.
Awarded Marine Science
Valuable equipment to be used in seismic exploration of the deep sea floor has been donated to the Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami, it was announced recently by Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, Director of the Institute. The equipment is the gift of Standard Oil Company of Kentucky.
The equipment includes an experimental marine seismic array consisting of special cables, amplifiers and hydrophones (underwater microphones). The gear is used in charting the topography of the sea floor and investigating the sediments and rocks beneath the sea floor—studies which are part of a long range investigation by the Institute of the ocean basin and its geological structure.
It is expected that the equipment will be employed extensively in sea floor studies con-
ducted from the Institute's largest oceanographic research vessel, R/V, PILLSBURY, which is currently operating in the Mediterranean and Black seas and will return to Miami in Noyember. It will probably be useful in further studies of a gigantic undersea canyon recently discovered by IMS seining off south Florida and slic-entists in the Atlantic. Begin-ing through the sea floor beneath the Gulf Stream and through the Bahamas for more than 200 miles, the canyon is the largest and deepest sea floor canyon known.
Seismic exploration in the deep sea involves the use of specially developed “echo sounders" called seismic profilers. Powerful sounds produced in the water are reflected from the sea bottom and from the underlying layers.
Scientists Named To Planetary Lab
Three distinguished scientists j | have accepted appointments to the Institute of Atmospheric Sci-I cnee of the University of Miami’s I School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences.
“We expect these men to become effective elements of our programs in graduate education while continuing their work as proven research scientists." Dean S. Fred Singer commented.
The new additions to the School's faculty are: I)r. Mari-rank of professor of atmns-ano Estoque. who will hidd the pheric science: Dr. Kuldip P. Chopra, associate professor: and Dr. Luis M. Herrera-Can-tilo, research scientist.
A meteorologist, Dr. Estoque i has spent the past year at the University as a SEPS visiting professor and visiting researcher at the U.S. Weather Bureau’s National Hurricane Research Laboratory. He earned his Ph D at New York University.
Dr. Sstoque will rejoin the University of Hawaii faculty for the coming year where he is chairman of the department of meteorology. He will assume his permanent appointment at UM in June, 1966.
Dr. Chopra, an atmospherir physicist, joined the I’niversity July 1965. A native of India, he holds his Ph.D. from Delhi University and has taught and done research at the University
of Maryland. University of Southern California and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He currently is head of the space physics laboratory of Melpar Research. Inc. in Virginia.
Dr. Herrera-Cantilo, a specialist in radar meteorology, is currently on the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires. The Argentinirin scientist began his UM duties on August 1
International Study Started
An Institute of Inter-American Studies has been established on the University of Miami campus.
The Institute will be a divi-I sion of the Center for Advanced International Studies and will serve to coordinate and plan the development of course work in the Inter-American field among the various colleges, schools, divisions, and departments of the University.
Students will he able to enroll in the numerous Latin Amercian courses offered by different departments.
Principal objective of the Institute at this time is to prepare I candidates for a two-year I Master’s degree in Inter-Ameri-I can studies.
Our Mistake”
THE HURRICANE mistakenly reported in the August 13 issue that Dr Pearson was receiving the President's Medal from Dr. Bowman Ashe. It was in fart. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr. Oscar E. Dooly. Dr. Ashe was not the founder of the University, hut the founding president. The founders were Judge William E. Walsh and Mr. George Merrick