Medical School Addition

THE College is making plans to build a $250,000 two-story addition to the recently completed Medical Science Building to house facilities for additional electron-microscope research. The construction is being financed by grants of $125,000 from the National Science Foundation, $75,000 from the James Foundation, and $50,000 from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

The addition, which will also be connected with the Kellogg Medical Auditorium (completed) and the Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory (construction to begin this year), will allow the Medical School's Departments of Microbiology and-Pathology to expand their research and teaching programs. Architects for the addition are Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott of Boston, who also designed the Medical Science Building.

This new facility will contain three electron microscopes, instruments which permit scientists to study submicroscopic material. One of the instruments, made by Bendix-Akashi, will be the first model of its kind on the East Coast. It will aid the work of Dr. Samuel F. Conti, Associate Professor of Microbiology. A second will be purchased particularly to aid in cancer studies. The third will be for the Department of Pathology.