Science Grant of $740,000
A GRANT of $740,000 to the College for research and laboratory facilities in the biological sciences and eleven graduate fellowships for outstanding Dartmouth students were awarded last month by the National Science Foundation.
The $734,000 grant, given to provide facilities for student and faculty research and graduate training, will go toward construction of the Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory, one of the five hew buildings in the Gilman Bio-Medical Center. It will be matched by non-Federal funds given for the Laboratory, notably by the Gilman Foundation.
The Laboratory will house the College's Department of Biological Sciences and will be located near the Dartmouth Medical School's new facilities, enabling these two units of the Gilman Bio-Medical Center to share many research and instructional facilities including the nearly completed Dana Bio-Medical Library and the recently dedicated Kellogg Auditorium.
The Life Sciences Laboratory will be a five-story brick building containing 47,000 square feet of instructional, research, and office space. It is named for Charles Gilman, president of the Gilman Foundation and father of Howard '44 and Charles Jr. '52. Construction is expected to start soon and be completed in November 1964.
The grant is earmarked specifially to bear the costs of research and graduate training facilities for a biological sciences faculty of some twenty members, about ten postdoctoral fellows, and fifteen graduate students. Other funds will be used for facilities for undergraduate instruction and research that are among the Laboratory's primary function.
Nine of the Dartmouth students who have received National Science Foundation graduate fellowships for study at schools of their choice received awards directly from the National Science Foundation, and two others received National Science Foundation cooperative graduate fellowships.
