Veritas, Vol. 06, No. 03, October 25, 1965

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
Dr. Julian S. Schwinger, visit-
ing professor of physics' at UM, has shared the physics Nobel Prize this year for his basic contributions to quantum electrodynamics...
BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
For Faculty and
Dr. Archie L. McNeal. director of libraries, was principal speaker at the New England Library Association meeting in Portsmouth, N.H. His topic: “Librarians as Enemies of Books.“ Dr. McNeal is president of the Southeastern Library Association...
Dr. William P. Dismukes. romance languages and linguistics, attended the 11th International Congress on Romance Linguistics and Philology in Madrid, September 1-9...
A recent lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez was Dr. Jose A. Balseiro. foreign languages. During the summer he taught at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, presented a paper at the Second Congress of the International Association of Hispanists in Holland, where he presided at one of its meetings at the University of Nijmegen, and visited in Madrid...
The University director of placement, Louis A. Miller, has been invited to serve on the Plans for Progress Division of President Johnson’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...
Reappointed to the research committee of the Florida Association for Retarded Children is Dr. Robert M. Allen, psychology...
Dean Myers, business administration, has been named to a committee to aid the Assistant Secretary of Defense in managing the logistics management training program. Dr. Waino W. Soujanen. chairman, management, is a consultant to the same program...
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Office of Public Information
October 25, 1965
SCIENCE CENTER CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
Voi. 6, No. 3
Construction on the long awaited Science Center will start today, with formal groundbreaking ceremonies scheduled at
a later date, according to President Stanford.
It will face Memorial Drive, between the J. Neville McArthur Building of the School of Engineering and the Computing Center. With the blocking off of this area, new parking facilities have been prepared behind the Engineering Building and along the road leading to it.
Contract for the first unit, to be built at a cost of $4,902,702, was awarded to Apgar & Markham Construction Co., Inc. To be completed by July 1967, “Science A” will be ready for occupancy by the fall semester of that year.
A major goal of UM’s Golden Anniversary Development Program, the four-story structure will contain teaching and research facilities of the departments of biology and chemistry, the Laboratory for Quantitative Biology and the graduate program in cellular and molecular biology. These are now housed in the Anastasia and other buildings on the North Campus.
“With this contract to build the first unit of our Science Center, the University takes a great stride toward achieving the excellence in our science facilities which our students, faculty and research scientists rightfully expect,” Dr. Stanford said. “We are deeply grateful to all those who have supported us in making possible the start of the greatly needed Science Center, particularly our Trustees, members of the UM Citizens Board and those local firms and corporations who have already pledged more than $1.7 million toward the $3.8 million goal of the Citizens Board.”
Architects are Caudill, Rowlett and Scott of Houston, Texas. Engineers are Norman Dignum Associates of Miami.
To date a total of $12,371,221 has been pledged to the 10-year $93.4 million program by members of the University’s Board of Trustees, by local and national firms, corporations and foundations, by individual philanthropists and by the federal government.
Development plans call for a second, even larger science building to be constructed adjacent to the first before 1970. Estimated cost: $7,711,000.