Rockefeller Student

As one of the country's top science students, Allen B. Edmundson Jr. '54 of Springfield, Ill., has been awarded a grant amounting to $3,500 a year to attend a new postgraduate program inaugurated by the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. Last October he entered as one of ten charter students in what will be a new graduate university for outstanding students, established to develop leaders in scientific research in the natural sciences. Recommended by Dartmouth, Edmundson's outstanding record while he was in college demonstrated his suitability for the training offered by the Rockefeller Institute to help remedy the crucial lack of advanced biologists.

The new university's enrollment is to reach 75, the course to last for three years. Students will be candidates for the Ph.D. degree or, in the case of those who hold the M.D. degree, the degree of Doctor of Medical Science. The entire staff of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, numbering 150 members, is available to the students, and twenty foremost scientists and scholars will be visiting lecturers.

Edmundson was a second-year medical student when he left Dartmouth. A Rufus Choate Scholar for four years, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and was winner of the Tirrell Improvement Prize in his sophomore year. He graduated summa cum laude and with highest distinction in Medical Science.