Veritas, Vol. 20, No. 08, December 10, 1979

              We know the UM Jazz Band is innovative, but when did they start playing the camera? No kidding, Nov. 26th. the NBC Today Show crew filmed a Jazz Band performance on the Student Union patio and interv iewed band director Whit Sidener on the banks of Lake Osceola. The segment aired Friday morning, Dec. 7.
UM co-hosts UAICA c4»ui‘ci*cnce
Top educators from 13 foreign nations and the United States will meet in Miami Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 13-15, for the Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Institutes (UNICA) conference.
UNICA founding members hosting the conference at the Hotel Inter-Continental will be the University of Miami and the University of Florida, and Florida International University.
Sir Philip Sherlock, UNICA secretary general, who will be coming from headquarters at Kingston, Jamaica, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Miami in 1971.
UNICA President Dr. Juan Tomas Mejia, rector of the Universidad Pedro Henriquez, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, w ill
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Six hundred miles in space, one of Nimbus 7’s sensors is peeking down and measuring chlorophyll in the oceans.
A UM scientist is a member of a research team working on that NASA project. He’s Dr. How ard R. Gordon, professor of physics and physical oceanography.
U.S. colleagues on the Coastal Zone Color Scanner project are a sensor scientist and a coastal oceanographer from NOAA; an oceanographer from Scripps; two biologists—one from Texas A M, the other from Bigelow Labs. Maine; and a NASA scientist.
The team meets four times a year to assess progress of the project, to identify problem areas requiring further research, and to assign responsibility for the research. The team also sets priorities for the areas to be covered and oversees all data processing
The satellite makes 13 1 2 orbits a day. The sensor the team is working w ith is one of eight on the satellite. It cost S5 million and research support is betw een S3 i ' 2 and S 4 million, which w ill run until 1981. It has sent back some 13.000 images w hich must be transformed into photographs for anal-vsis. Dr. (»ordon s principal contribution
preside at the opening session at 9:15 a.m., Thursday. Welcoming remarks will be given by Dr. Henry King Stanford, president of the University of Miami and UNICA vice president.
Guest speaker Dr. Rafael Fernandez Heres, honorable minister of education for Venezuela, will be introduced by Dr. Gregory Wolfe, president of Florida International University. Dr. John Nattress, executive vice president of the University of Florida, will give an appreciation.
At 11 a.m. Thursday, reports will be given on UNICA’s activities in agriculture, management studies, publications, the OAS/ UNICA program and on restructuring the organization.
The 3 to 5 p.m. session will include a pre-
sentation of four audio-visual programs of UNICA’s education technology' project. They demonstrate good quality, inexpensive teaching materials Caribbean institutions can utilize.
Friday’s sessions wrill concentrate on the Caribbean’s tw'o critical survival issues in 1990—food supply and population growth and density. Panel discussions to determine ways to. increase aw areness of these problems and the region’s potential for solving them will be held.
Friday evening’s banquet speaker will be Argentina Hills, president and publisher, El Mundo. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The conference will conclude Saturday morning following officers’ nominations and elections.
Dr. Howard Gordon
has been the successful development of a technique to remove from those images all of the effects of the intervening atmosphere between the sensor and the sea surface.
The satellite was launched in October. 1978 from Vandenberg AFB. California. It’s the last in a series i»f research satellites devoted to demonstrating concepts for future systems rather than producing products
for immediate use.
The basic goal is to prove that chlorophyll concentrations of the ocean can be measured from a satellite. («ordon says it has already been accomplished successfully. Until now . chlorophyll measurements have been made only from ships.
Chlorophyll is the molecule that enables plants to undergo photosynthesis. In the Cftniznuc J <>n pant 2
Simly relates hear! disease to culture
The men of Crete appear to have among the lowest coronary heart disease rates in the world. This finding has been supported by epidemiologists Dr. George Christakis and Dr. Anthoney Kafatos of the nutrition division, department of epidemiology and public health, UM School of Medicine.
These investigators have now' turned their attention to heart attack risk factors such as high serum cholesterol, high blood pressure, and cigarette smoking as they' occur in children of men who have had heart attacks and those who have not.
Earlier studies by Medical School faculty revealed that children of Dade (Miami) and Broward (Fort Lauderdale) County' men who developed heart attacks had higher circulating cholesterol levels than children of healthy men. However, in Crete, Kafatos and Christakis found that Cretan children of fathers who had documented history of heart attacks did not exhibit earlier risk tendency, such as higher levels of serum cholesterol. This difference is believed to be related to cultural factors.
Dr. Christakis also reported that the nutrition division has been aw arded a grant of $837,763, for a three-year study of 2,100 children age 9-17 in both Greece and the United States. The study is entitled "Cross-Cultural Determinants of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Adolescents” and will study the following variables: serum lipids, blood pressure, smoking history, blood hormone levels and dietary history.
Regalado receives MISA Scholarship
Elisa A. Regalado, assistant director for budgeting and financial reporting at the UM School of Medicine, has been awarded the first Junior Executive MBA Scholarship in the School of Business Administration.
Ms. Regalado has worked for the University of Miami for 14 years. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Villanueva, Havana, Cuba, in 1960. and is a member of the Cuban Certified Public Accountants Association.
The Junior Executive MBA program offers a solution to women w ho are caught up in a "catch 22” situation w'here they may find that top management jobs are not open to them w ithout an MBA, but they cannot enter an executive MBA program because of the admission requirement of extensive managerial experience.
It is the program’s special format which will enable Ms. Regalado to combine academic pursuits w ith fulltime job responsibilities. She will enter the three-y’ear Saturday program this January'.
Eligibility requirements for the Junior Executive MBA Scholarship are that applicants be UM employees, be nominated by their division (Academic Affairs. Administration and Finance. Development. Student Affairs or Medical Schtx>l). and meet admission requirements for the program. The scholarship is provided through University' funds.