Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 20, February 18, 1974

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Volume 14, Number 20_February 18, Il
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Proposals Due for NSF Funds
Professor Named Woman of Year
Iris M. Kiem, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the medical school, was named Miami’s Handicapped Professional Woman of the Year in an annual event sponsored by the Pilot Club of Miami. Despite having been paralyzed by polio and confined to a wheelchair since she was 14, Ms. Kiem obtained her B.S. degree magna cum laude at the UM in 1948, her M.S. at the University of North Carolina, and her masters degree in public health at the University of Pittsburgh in 1955. At the medical school, Ms. Kiem works as a member of medical research teams in the design and analysis of research projects, as well as teaching and supervising medical students in community health programs. She is also involved in a wide range of non-university affiliated, community activities.
Eye Institute Gets Reasearch Grant
The Walter G. Ross Foundation of Washington, D.C., has awarded a grant of $51,422 to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the School of Medicine for research in eye disease.
The funds will be allocated to the “furtherance of the scientific purposes of the Eye Institute, particularly in research projects directed toward several areas of eye disease,” said Dr. Edward W. D. Norton, director of the Institute and professor and chairman of the medical school’s department of ophthalmology.
CB Member Donates Cadillac to University
President Stanford is driving around campus in a brand new Cadillac—at no cost to the University. The car was donated to UM by George Williamson Cadillac, which is also taking care of the maintenance.
Mr. Williamson is a member of the UM Citizens Board.
The canyon-amber Cadillac will be used as a “pool” car at all possible times, according to Dr. Stanford.
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UM to Plan Youth Center
by Jane Rieker News Bureau
Architectural and program planning for a federal youth center in Southeast Florida is under way at the University.
The Bureau of Prisons of the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a one-year $40,000 grant to UM for the preliminary project.
Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr., vice president for academic affairs, is principal investigator, working with Dr. Seymour Gelber, director of the criminal justice program of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
The center for youthful offenders would include social, educational, and vocational programs for inmates as well as on-the-job training for persons learning correctional management.
The UM researchers are making a four-point analysis under the planning grant, said Dr. McKenry, including:
•	A survey of treatment models past and present to form a basis for the projected treatment program and field training;
t A survey of UM and other colleges and universities in the area, community agencies and facilities, which meet some or part of the program and training needs;
•	A survey of the skills needed by trainees as correctional counselors, unit managers, and associate wardens; and
•	A survey of state and local training needs of state and local correctional institutions.
During the year-long project, UM researchers will work closely with the Bureau of Prisons architectural and program planning staff and the Bureau of Prisons Training Center, Dallas, Texas.
A National Science Foundation institutional grant of $44,900 has been received by the University to be used for the general purpose of science development.
This year, UM allocated these funds to projects which show major promise of generating extramural support by funding promising proposals from individual faculty; providing matching funds to individuals or departments who are successful at receiving extramural matching fund grants; and providing support for three developing areas of great research potential—energy, gerontology and technology transfer.
Approximately $15,000 of this year’s grant has been committed to serve as matching funds available to faculty and departments who are successful in receiving a matching-funds grant from an external agency, foundation, company or individual. NSF institutional grant matching fund awards will not normally exceed $7,500.
Deadline for individual application for a portion of the NSF institutional grant award is February 28. The following guidelines have been established for the individual awards this year:
1.	Awards will normally not exceed $3,000 each.
2.	The primary purpose of these funds is to support the research of new faculty with less than five year’s residence at the University, and who have not yet had research support at this institution.
3.	Applications for funds used to pay the investigator’s salary will be discouraged.
4.	Six copies of the application and one copy of the proposal processing checklist must be submitted to the Dean of Research Coordination by February 28.
Individual proposals must be submitted through and approved by the pertinent department chairmen and deans.
The University of Miami has been the recipient of NSF institutional grants since the program was begun in 1961. The sum granted each institution is a percentage of the total NSF support being received by that institution. The disciplines which may be supported are the mathematical, physical, biological, medical and engineering sciences, anthropology, economics (excluding business ad-
ministration), geography, the history and philosophy of science, psychology (excluding clinical psychology), and sociology (excluding social work). Also included are interdisciplinary areas which comprise parts of two or more of the above sciences.
Members of the NSF institutional grant committee this year are Dr. Keith Wellman, chemistry (chairman); Dr. Kurt Bostrom, marine geology and geophysics; Dr. S. L. Hsia, dermatology; and Dr. T. Nejat Veziroglu, mechanical engineering.
Plastic Surgery Chair Established
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Establishment of the Light/Millard Chair of Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine was marked by a ceremony February 15 during which one of the nation’s foremost plastic surgeons, Dr. Reed O. Dingman, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
President Henry King Stanford and Dr. Emanuel M. Papper, UM vice president for medical affairs and dean, participated in the ceremony, held at the School’s Mailman Center for Child Development.
The new chair was made possible through a gift to the School of Medicine by Mrs. Ann R. Light, of Palm Beach, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolph A. Light. Dr. Light had a distinguished career as a surgeon and medical educator and for ten years served as associate professor of surgery and director of surgical research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Dr. D. Ralph Millard, clinical professor of surgery and chief of the division of plastic surgery at the UM medical school, is the first to occupy the newly-created chair. Dr. Millard is internationally known as a practitioner and researcher. He is coauthor of a two-volume book, The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery, with Sir Arthur Gillies, famed British plastic surgeon.
Dr. Dingman is professor of surgery and head of the section of plastic surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He is a medical doctor and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as a doctor of dental surgery with a master of science degree in oral surgery.