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SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
BI-WEEKLY NEWS
LETTER
April 1, 1968 Vol. 8, No. 14
DR. SIDNEY W. FOX NAMED Dr. Sidney W. Fox, director of the
OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST Institute of Molecular Evolution and
professor of biochemistry at the UM, has been named the 1968 recipient of the Florida Academy of Sciences Honor Medal as the State's Outstanding Scientist.
Dr. Fox received the medal at the annual academy banquet March 22 at Stetson University, DeLand, Fla. and gave an address on “A New View of the Synthesis of Life."
The award was given to Dr. Fox in recognition of his fundamental research in amino acid and peptide chemistry and in evolution, his administration of reaearch and his activity in national and international biochemical and scientific organizations.
Dr. Fox came to the UM in 1964. Before, he was director, Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University, 1955-61, director, Institute for Space Biosciences, 1961-1964, and professor, chemistry department, 1955-64.
WOMAN'S CANGER ASSOCIATION The Woman's Cancer Association TO GIVE ANOTHER $50,000 of the University of Miami will
present a check for $50,000 to President Stanford Thursday, April 11. The check represents the fourth installment on $500,000 pledged by the WCA to the UM’s Golden Anniversary Development Program on a $50,000-a-year, 10-year basis. It is earmarked for the School of Medicine's Basic Science Building, now under construction. In addition to the $200,000 contributed to the GADP, the 850 women volunteers in the 18-chapter organization have raised $232,174 over the last eight years, or a total of $432,174 for the University. Mrs. Henry T. Sudlow, outgoing president, will present the check to Dr. Stanford at the group's tenth annual installation luncheon at the Bath Club. Incoming president is Mrs. Karl J. Leib, Jr.
COMMUNICATION ARTS Some 150 photographers, editors,
CONFERENCE APRIL 24-26 writers and art directors will attend the 12th annual International Miami Conference on Communication Arts at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery April 24-26. They'll exchange creative ideas in communications, with emphasis on the image, print or electronic.
Yousuf Karsh, distinguished photographer-portraitist of Ottawa, Canada, will be a principal speaker. George P. Hunt, managing editor, LIFE, will give the keynote address. Other speakers include Arthur lothstein, technical director, LOOK; Fritz Goro, science photographer, lJFE, who will present a retrospective exhibit of his 30 years in the field. France, Holland and Germany will be represented. Co-chairmen of the Conference are Wilson Hicks, director, University of Miami publications and former executive editor of LIFE, and Morris Gordon, New York photographer. Faculty and student rate is $10 per person. This does not include the April 26 Awards Dinner which costs $4.50.
Dr. Edward J. Murray, psychology, and director of clinical training, has been appointed a member of the Clinical and Personality Sciences Fellowship Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health for a four-year period...
Attending the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in Washington, D.C. April 8-11 will be Drs. Robert J. Hurley. Cesare Emiliani. Elizabeth Rona. Conrad Nuemann, David Fisher. Enrico Bonatti, Joseph Prospero and Oiva Joensuu, all IMS...
Dr. W. Dean Warren, dean of the medical school, gave three lectures at the National Congress of the Peruvian Academy of Surgery in Lima March 26-28 on new surgical approaches developed at UM for treatment of liver diseases...
Foy D. Kohler, former ambassador to Russia and now professor of international studies, was guest speaker March 13 at the banquet at Fontainebleau Hotel honoring the Society of University Founders...
Dr. A. E. Harum, business law, is author of Broadcast Defamation: A Reformation of the Common Law Concepts, lead article in current Federal Communications Bar Journal...
Dr. Walter Drost-Hansen, physical and chemical oceanography, IMS, will attend the EUCHEM Conference on water near interfaces in North Wales April 22-27...
Dr. Charles B. Metz, Institute of Molecular Evolution, attended the annual meeting of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences as representative for the Society of General Physiologists...
Albert E. Bachmann, management, has been accepted in Clem-son University's doctoral program in engineering management...
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| Full Text | SPEAKING OF PEOPLE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER April 1, 1968 Vol. 8, No. 14 DR. SIDNEY W. FOX NAMED Dr. Sidney W. Fox, director of the OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST Institute of Molecular Evolution and professor of biochemistry at the UM, has been named the 1968 recipient of the Florida Academy of Sciences Honor Medal as the State's Outstanding Scientist. Dr. Fox received the medal at the annual academy banquet March 22 at Stetson University, DeLand, Fla. and gave an address on “A New View of the Synthesis of Life." The award was given to Dr. Fox in recognition of his fundamental research in amino acid and peptide chemistry and in evolution, his administration of reaearch and his activity in national and international biochemical and scientific organizations. Dr. Fox came to the UM in 1964. Before, he was director, Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University, 1955-61, director, Institute for Space Biosciences, 1961-1964, and professor, chemistry department, 1955-64. WOMAN'S CANGER ASSOCIATION The Woman's Cancer Association TO GIVE ANOTHER $50,000 of the University of Miami will present a check for $50,000 to President Stanford Thursday, April 11. The check represents the fourth installment on $500,000 pledged by the WCA to the UM’s Golden Anniversary Development Program on a $50,000-a-year, 10-year basis. It is earmarked for the School of Medicine's Basic Science Building, now under construction. In addition to the $200,000 contributed to the GADP, the 850 women volunteers in the 18-chapter organization have raised $232,174 over the last eight years, or a total of $432,174 for the University. Mrs. Henry T. Sudlow, outgoing president, will present the check to Dr. Stanford at the group's tenth annual installation luncheon at the Bath Club. Incoming president is Mrs. Karl J. Leib, Jr. COMMUNICATION ARTS Some 150 photographers, editors, CONFERENCE APRIL 24-26 writers and art directors will attend the 12th annual International Miami Conference on Communication Arts at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery April 24-26. They'll exchange creative ideas in communications, with emphasis on the image, print or electronic. Yousuf Karsh, distinguished photographer-portraitist of Ottawa, Canada, will be a principal speaker. George P. Hunt, managing editor, LIFE, will give the keynote address. Other speakers include Arthur lothstein, technical director, LOOK; Fritz Goro, science photographer, lJFE, who will present a retrospective exhibit of his 30 years in the field. France, Holland and Germany will be represented. Co-chairmen of the Conference are Wilson Hicks, director, University of Miami publications and former executive editor of LIFE, and Morris Gordon, New York photographer. Faculty and student rate is $10 per person. This does not include the April 26 Awards Dinner which costs $4.50. Dr. Edward J. Murray, psychology, and director of clinical training, has been appointed a member of the Clinical and Personality Sciences Fellowship Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health for a four-year period... Attending the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in Washington, D.C. April 8-11 will be Drs. Robert J. Hurley. Cesare Emiliani. Elizabeth Rona. Conrad Nuemann, David Fisher. Enrico Bonatti, Joseph Prospero and Oiva Joensuu, all IMS... Dr. W. Dean Warren, dean of the medical school, gave three lectures at the National Congress of the Peruvian Academy of Surgery in Lima March 26-28 on new surgical approaches developed at UM for treatment of liver diseases... Foy D. Kohler, former ambassador to Russia and now professor of international studies, was guest speaker March 13 at the banquet at Fontainebleau Hotel honoring the Society of University Founders... Dr. A. E. Harum, business law, is author of Broadcast Defamation: A Reformation of the Common Law Concepts, lead article in current Federal Communications Bar Journal... Dr. Walter Drost-Hansen, physical and chemical oceanography, IMS, will attend the EUCHEM Conference on water near interfaces in North Wales April 22-27... Dr. Charles B. Metz, Institute of Molecular Evolution, attended the annual meeting of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences as representative for the Society of General Physiologists... Albert E. Bachmann, management, has been accepted in Clem-son University's doctoral program in engineering management... |
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