Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 07, October 15, 1973

              Dr. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
Sutherland Earns National Honor
Dr. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. is one of 11 recipients of the 1973 National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest award for distinguished achievement in science, mathematics and engineering. Dr. Sutherland, winner of the 1971 Nobel Laureate in medicine and physiology, joined the medical school faculty in July as Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry.
President Nixon announced the National Medal of Science awards at a press briefing in Washington and the presentations were made in the East Wing of the White House at 11 a.m., October 10, followed by a luncheon for recipients and their guests in the State Department.
President and Mrs. Stanford attended the ceremonies.
Dr. Sutherland’s citation reads:
“ ... for the discovery that epinephrin and the hormones of the pituitary gland occasion their diverse regulatory effects by initiating cellular synthesis of cyclic adenylic acid, now recognized as a universal biological ‘second messenger,’ which opened a new level of understanding of the subtle mechanisms that integrate the chemical life of the cell while offering hope of entirely new approaches to chemotherapy.”
It’s for day care centers. And senior centers. And a lot more.
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Grad Students Share RSMAS Award
The F. G. Walton Smith Prize, a newly created award in honor of the dean emeritus of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, was awarded at a school-wide assembly October 4. First recipients of the $1,000 award were two candidates for the Ph.D., Steven Y. Newell (second from right in photo) and Carl E. Schubert (second from left). Flanking the two students are Dr. Warren S. Wooster (left), new dean of RSMAS, and Dr. F. G. Walton Smith.
The idea for the F. G. Walton Smith Prize originated from Dr. John A. Harrison, dean of the faculties. It is to be an annual award to a doctoral student or students at RSMAS.
Mr. Newell’s research centers on the red mangrove and the tropical marine estuary, while Mr. Schubert is studying the seafloor tectonics near the Lesser Antilles.
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Smith Reports Enrollment Down Five Percent
As University officials had anticipated, and in keeping with national trends, enrollment this fall dropped slightly for the second year, this year by five percent as compared with last year’s six percent.
Registrar George W. Smith reports that overall enrollment is 16,066 as compared with 17,016 last fall—.a drop of 950 students including full-time and part-time degree students at all levels, and non-credit students. Last year’s total count loss was 1,235.
New freshman enrollment totaled 2,008 as compared to 2,163 in 1972. Transfer students totaled 1,260. This is 22 fewer than last year. Mr. Smith noted that transfer students dropped by 106 last year.
The number of sophomores increased by 177 students, for a total of 1,939.
Junior students total 2,223, a drop of 215 as compared with last year’s loss of 621.
Reflecting the 1972 junior class drop, the senior class this year totals 2,155, a drop of 362.
While overall undergraduate enrollment in the University’s seven schools and college is down, full-time enrollment in the Graduate School and professional school is up. With an increase of 97 full-time graduate students, the
Graduate School fulltime students now total 864. Full-time students in the School of Law total 1,037, an increase of 68, and the School of Medicine, with an increase of 11 students, now totals 544.
Total enrollment for the Graduate School this year is 2,204, as compared to 2,291 last year, and the School of Law totals 1,099 students, up 71 over last year’s 1,028 students.
At the undergraduate level, enrollment increased in three undergraduate schools—Music, Nursing, and Engineering. The School of Music jumped to 433, an increase of 66; the School of Nursing, to 258, an increase of 69; the School of Engineering and Environmental Design increased by one student to 747.
The School of Continuing Studies, formerly the Division of Continuing Education, which coordinates evening classes offered by the various schools, enrolled 3,840 degree and non-degree students, as compared to 4,067 last fall. Of these, 1,445 are degree students and 2,395 are taking non-credit classes. Degree students last year totaled 1,575; nondegree totaled 2,493, a drop of 130 and 97 students respectively.
The School of Continuing Studies also coordinates the Bachelor of Continuing
Studies degree, for which 31 students are preparing, an increase of 3 over last year.
Total enrollment in the other undergraduate college and schools decreased as follows: the College of Arts and Sciences, with 4,669 students, is down 450; the School of Business Administration, with 1,719, is down 93; the School of Education, with 1,079, is down 416.
Mr. Smith noted that 344 students who had “stopped out” for a year or two were readmitted this year. The trend of students “stopping out” for a short period of time is a continuing one at all colleges and universities Mr. Smith said, and accounts in part for the University’s anticipated drop in enrollment at the undergraduate level.
He also mentioned the increased interest on the part of some students to enroll in vocational and technical schools. Moreover, the fact that the draft is no longer in effect influences many male students to defer entering college at age 18. In short, Mr. Smith stated, the University’s enrollment picture this year is a reflection of many national trends and influences which colleges and universities are facing.
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