Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 17, January 28, 1974

              Conference to Examine Hydrogen Economy
Due to the international fuei shortage and energy crisis, The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy Conference (THEME), to be held at the Playboy Plaza Hotel March 18-20, has received worldwide response.
THEME will be the first major international meeting devoted entirely to the consideration of the significant potential of hydrogen as a synthetic and clean fuel to
replace fossil fuels. Papers will be presented by representatives of 12 countries:	France, Germany,
Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Australia and Japan. Dr. Howard P. Harrenstien, dean of the UM School of Engineering and Environmental Design, is chairman of the conference.
Japan is sending the largest delegation
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(15) to THEME. “This is because Japan has no native fossil fuels, yet is industrially progressive, said Dr. Nejat Veziroglu, chairman, mechanical engineering, and co-chairman of the conference. “Japan will probably be the first country to introduce the use of hydrogen as an energy source.”
In fact, a delegation of 11 Japanese industrialists plan to visit the University January 29 for a pre-conference briefing by UM’s Hydrogen Research Team. Included in the delegation are representatives from Mitsubishi, Nissan Motor Company, Asahi Chemical Industry and the University of Yokahama. Following their briefing, they will go back to Japan and return to Miami for the conference.
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Volume 14, Number 17
January 28, 1974
Ambulatory Surgical Center Initiated
by Jack Oswald Public Information Officer School of Medicine
The School of Medicine introduced its Ambulatory Surgical Center at an open house on Sunday, January 20 with President Henry King Stanford and Dr. Emanuel M. Papper, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the school, as hosts at the Center in the UM Hospitals & Clinics-National Children’s Cardiac Hospital, at 1475 N.W. 12th Avenue in the Medical Center, from 4 to 7 pjn.
The Ambulatory Surgical Center represents the latest concept in improved health care delivery. Ambulatory surgery is not necessarily minor in nature, explains Dr. Marc Rowe, professor of pediatrics and the Center’s medical director. The chief criterion for the selection of patients is that they require only a brief period of postsurgical observation.
Patients spend a few hours in a relatively relaxed atmosphere and return to familiar surroundings the same day at considerably less expense than an overnight hospital stay would entail.
An estimated 40 percent of the 10 daily patients will be children. Adults will be admitted by the departments of gynecology, urology, dental surgery, plastic surgery and perhaps others.
The half-million dollar facility consists of two operating rooms; a section containing five admission-discharge beds; another section with five recovery beds and ancillary facilities.
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Mulligan Joins UM
Gerry Mulligan, considered one of the top composers, arrangers and saxophonists in the jazz world, has joined the faculty of the School of Music as guest lecturer and artist-in-residence in the studio music and jazz program for the spring semester.
Dr. William F. Lee, dean of the School of Music, said Mulligan is another of the big name performers teaching at the UM. Mulligan will have master classes in arranging, composing, rehearsing techniques, improvizations, will rehearse small and big bands, and perform with various groups in concert.
Mulligan, also a pianist and recording artist, has appeared often with Dave Brubeck groups.
UM Earns Top Research Honors
The University of Miami is one of 59 “leading research universities” among 210 doctoral-granting universities in this country, according to a report by the management division of the Academy for Educational Development, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Published under the title “The Campus Resources of Higher Education in the United States of America,” the report is a new taxonomy of 2,945 higher educational institutions.
Universities defined as top research institutions were those which awarded more than 50 Ph.D.s in 1970-71 and which received more than $10 million in federal government support of academic sciences in 1970-71.
UM awarded 66 Ph.D.s and received $16,649,000 in federal grants for academic science during that academic year.
Of the 59 universities, 36 are public and 23 private, and only two are in Florida— UM and the University of Florida.
Tenure Board Election on Senate Agenda
The election of five members to the newly created Tenure Review Board is on the agenda of the next Faculty Senate meeting January 28 at 3 p jn. in Brockway Lecture Hall.
A bylaw establishing a Tenure Review Board was passed by the Senate at its December 10 meeting, and approved by President Stanford on December 17.
A full text of the bylaw appears in the December 17 Veritas. The Board shall be a University-wide committee consisting of five tenured full professors no more than one of whom shall come from the same school, each serving a three-year term. Board members will be elected by the Senate after at least twice the number to be elected are nominated by the Senate Council.
Members of the UM Hydrogen Research Team, in addition to Dean Harrenstien and Dr. Veziroglu, include: Dr. Robert Adt, Jr., associate professor of mechanical engineering, whose area of interest is the application of hydrogen fuel to transportation; Dr. Samuel Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering, who will brief the visitors on the storage and transmission of hydrogen; Dr. Keith Wellman, associate professor of chemistry, who will discuss the production of hydrogen; Dr. Lee Anderson, assistant professor of economics who will talk about the resource economics, and Dr. Harold Plass, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering, who has concentrated on environmental problems related to a hydrogen economy.
The Hydrogen Economy Conference is being presented jointly by the School of Engineering and Environmental Design and the School of Continuing Studies. The Conference is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense.
More than 80 papers will be presented during the conference, dealing with problems of hydrogen production, transmission, storage, distribution and utilization methods, and highlighting prospects for future development.
Dr. Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, will be banquet speaker on March 19, and Dr. Alvin Weinberg, newly appointed Federal Research and Development Energy director, has been invited to give the keynote address.
The registration fee will be waived for UM faculty members and graduate students who wish to attend the conference. Those interested should contact Dr. Veziroglu at 284-2571. Transcripts of the proceedings will be available during the conference for $30.