THE FACULTY

A RESEARCH plan proposed by Prof. William M. Smith, chairman of the Psychology Department, and his brother, Karl U. Smith, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, has been awarded a prize in a competition sponsored by the television industry. The Competition for Exceptional Plans in the Field of Television Research was conducted by a governing committee of social scientists and underwritten by the Television Bureau of Advertising. Its aim was to contribute to scientific knowledge in mass communications by stimulating development of outstanding plans for research using television.

The results of their research will be published in a special book, and they will receive a cash grant of $1500, the contest's second prize.

The research plan, "Scientific Television Methods Applied to Analysis of Perceptual Feedback in Behavior," is an extension of work they have done over the past six years. They are using closedcircuit television systems and videotape recordings to study sensory feedback in hopes of clarifying the perceptual-motor relations of learning, motivation, human development, and general behavior organization.

In the experiments, the subject is not allowed to see directly the actions he is performing, but watches them on a television monitor. He might be asked, for instance, to place pegs in holes, but the image he sees on the monitor can be inverted, distorted, or displaced by manipulating the television camera. In addition, by use of the videotape recordings a delay of specified duration in the image can be produced.

The Smith brothers hope to relate the results of the new investigations to specific questions of importance in space science, medicine, human engineering, and visual science.

Waldo Chamberlin, Dean of Summer Programs, was a featured speaker at a symposium during a threeday conference in New York at which the United Nations Library was dedicated. Dean Chamberlin, who was documents officer at the San Francisco Conference which established the U.N., discussed "The Library as an Arm for the Dissemination of United Nations Information."

Librarians from 33 other nations, foundation officials, and U.N. personnel attended the ceremonies and paid tribute to the late Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. Secretary-General, in whose honor the library was named.

Dean Chamberlin came to Dartmouth this year from New York University where he was a professor of government. He had served from 1946 to 1948 with the U.N. Secretariat as deputy director of the Documents Division and director of the Documents Control Staff.

FIVE Science Division faculty members have taken leaves of absence for a year to engage in research and scholarly activities. Three are spending much of the year in California, one will remain in Hanover, and another is in the Cambridge, Mass., area.

Prof. William W. Ballard '28 is continuing his experiments on the morphogenetic movements in fish embryos that he began at Dartmouth under a National Science Foundation grant. He is also directing an honors project in morphology supported by the NSF. It is part of a five-year program to develop a monograph with honors students. Most of the work will be carried out in his Silsby Hall laboratory.

Robert W. Christy, Associate Professor of Physics, is doing consulting work with Ramo- Woolridge Co., of Canoga Park, Calif., where he is developing a laboratory for research in micro-microelectronics. He plans to spend three separate months in Hanover during the year to guide research programs he has under way here and to supervise a graduate student in his research.

Prof. John B. Lyons of the Geology Department is at the University of California at Berkeley under a Faculty Fellowship awarded by the NSF. He is participating in courses and seminars in the general fields of geology and geophysics.

Hazleton Mirkil III, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is on sabbatical leave in Cambridge. He is continuing his research in functional analysis and working informally with members of the M.I.T. Mathematics Department.

Frank S. Williamson Jr., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is on sabbatical leave and is engaged in study and research at the University of California in Berkeley.

PROF. Herbert W. Hill, chairman of the History Department, has been named to the U.S. National Commission on UNESCO by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. This group of 100 Americans is charged with helping the United States carry out its responsibilities to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. His duties began almost immediately after his appointment was made in late October. He spent three days at meetings in Boston devoted to discussions of "Africa and the U.S.:

Images and Realities." The Commission is being asked to recommend courses of action after studying the politics, education and general development of science and technology and living standards on the continent.

PROF. Dimitri von Mohrenschildt of the Russian Civilization Department will spend the winter term in India lecturing on Russian history and culture. His visit is sponsored by the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom and is aided by a grant from the Kaltenborn Foundation of New York.

APOLITICAL scientist with a special interest in Latin American affairs is scheduled to join the Government Department staff on a part-time basis during the winter term. Prof. K. H. Silvert, currently a senior associate of the American Universities Field Staff, will offer a seminar on Latin American governments and politics. Next year he will again teach at Dartmouth before returning to Latin America for the AUFS. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and has been traveling in Latin America and writing about its problems since 1947. He is now editing a volume on nationalism in emergent areas, under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and is co-author of a forthcoming study on the role of education in the development of selected Latin American nations.