$100,000 for Urban Studies

The joint Dartmouth-MIT Urban Studies Project which between 1960 and 1963 sent twenty Dartmouth undergraduates into a variety of urban-research projects in the Greater Boston area and nine of that group into related career fields has been reactivated through a $lOO,OOO en- dorsement grant by the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts of Pittsburgh.

The major portion of the four-year grant to Dartmouth's Urban Studies Program will be used to reactivate and expand the joint project which is directed by Prof. Frank Smallwood '51, chairman of Dartmouth's City Planning and Urban Studies Program, and Prof. Robert C. Wood, chairman of the M.I.T. political science department.

The Dartmouth students, who receive one term of academic credit for participating, live at the South End Settlement House in the heart of Boston. Their projects — covering the fields of politics, art, sociology, government, economics, and history — are designed to give them a first-hand exposure to the problems of modern urban living.