Veritas, Vol. 06, No. 11, March 7, 1966

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
Dr. Robert E. Schroeder, research associate in biology, received the Florida Author Award from the American Pen Women in February. Dr. Schroeder, who won
his PhD in zoology at the UM in 1964, was honored for “Something Rich and Strange,” published last fall by Harper and Row...
Kenneth Kurtz
______________drama, was
awarded first place in the First Annual Theatrical Design Exhibit at Monticello College in Alton, 111. His prize winning design was for “The Knight of the Burning Pestle,” presented in February by the Ring Theatre...
Dr. Lynn R. Bartlett, coordina-tor of women's residence halls, will participate in Stetson University’s Mortar Board workshop on March 14. She also will lead a two-day workshop on interpersonal relationships March 15-16 at Stetson...
Dr. Arthur E. Traxler. educa-tion, is co-author of “Techniques of Guidance,” third edition of which is a recent publication of Harper and Row. The text is one of the Education
for Living
Dean M. Robert Allen. Continuing Education, attended Long Island University’s Fourth Intercollegiate Conference on Urban Affairs March 4-6. Dean Allen has been named to a state committee. (Details may be found on
page 4)...
Dr. Gilbert B. Snyder, chief, division of plastic surgery, attended the Seventh International Transplantation Conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences last month in New York. He also was a guest of the Florida Cleft Palate Association at its Orlando meeting...
Dr. K. P. Chopra. Environmental and Planetary Sciences, is the author of “Thermionic and Photoelectric Screening of Objects Moving in an Ionized Medium,” published in Astronautica Acta...
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Office of Public Information
March 7, 1966
Vol. 6, No. 11
NASA GRANT To LAUNCH A multi-disciplinary research pro-NEW RESEARCH PROGRAM gram in the space sciences will be
launched by the University with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr. Eugene H. Man, coordinator of research, announced approval of a grant of $400,000 from NASA for the first two years of a continuing research program.
The program will focus attention on the problems of turbulence in ocean currents and electric currents both in the laboratory and in cosmic plasma; space biology and medicine in the space environment; the gathering, processing and utilization of information in space guidance and control; materials science, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and human factor^ in monitoring.
The “sustaining’ ’ grant places the administration of the program, the choice of projects and investigators, and the allocation of funds in the hands of the University. “By means of such funds,” Dr. Man said “the university may encourage areas of its own choosing, develop programs which are consonant with its over-all objectives, and bring about desirable interactions between departments or disciplines.”
The work under this program will be administered by the UM’s Space Research Committee.
THOMAS W. SUTTON JOINS UM FAMILY
A former field representative of the
___________________ U.S. Office of Education has joined
the University as Director of Financial Aids. He is Thomas W. Sutton, and his appointment, announced by Dr. William R. Butler, vice president for student affairs, became effective on March 1. Mr. Sutton succeeds Norman Mangouni, who resigned to accept a position with New York State University’s Albany branch.
With the Office of Education, Mr. Sutton served as field representative for the Division of Student Financial Aid in the Southeast and Far West.
Prior to his work with the government, he had been an associate administrative analyst in the Office of the Trustees of the California State Colleges, and a member of the administrative staff of San Fernando Valley State College. Before entering the educational field, Mr. Sutton was for ten years in the field of banking, and served as Branch Manager for the Valley Bank in Los Angeles.
BBC TURNS EYE
ON UM RESEARCH
Research by Dr. Sidney W. Fox and
__________________ his colleagues at the Institute of
Molecular Evolution on the origins of life has drawn the attention of the BBC. A crew assigned to the British documentary series, Horizons, looked in on Dr. Fox’s laboratory last week, interviewed the investigators and shot film on some of their experiments and simulated life-origin conditions. It is expected the program will be aired in England some months from now.