THE FACULTY
THE Faculty Fellowship Program begins its fifth year in the fall. Thus far 18 faculty members have received the fellowships which allow the recipients to devote a full year solely to research or other scholarly or creative activities.
Named for the 1965-66 academic year are Roger H. Davidson, Assistant Professor of Government; Jeffrey P. Hart '51, Assistant Professor of English; and Noel Perrin, Assistant Professor of English.
These fellowships supplement the College's regular sabbatical leaves and outside awards such as those of the Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, and other fellowship programs. The recipients receive their regular compensation and a grant of up to $2500 for travel and other expenses related to their work.
The program was intended to give early opportunity to younger members of the faculty to advance their own studies. It was designed especially for those at the assistant professor rank who have finished their formal educational preparation and established themselves as teachers, but have not had the opportunity to give sustained time and energy, free from other obligations, to develop their scholarly work.
Most of the fellowships have been awarded in the humanities and social sciences, because many other awards are available in the sciences. Thus far seven English Department faculty have received them, three have come from the Government Department, two from Romance Languages, and one each from the German, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, and Mathematics Departments.
Professor Davidson plans to devote most of the coming academic year to completing and writing up a study of legislative roles in the U.S. House of Representatives. He will do this work in Washington, and then will spend several months in London interviewing members of the House of Commons as part of a comparative study of the role of the legislator in Western democracies.
Professor Hart plans to write a critical biography of Edmund Burke, 18th Century British statesman and political writer, using material recently made available. He will spend the year doing research for this book in England.
Professor Perrin also plans to go to England to research a book on Thomas Bowdler, 19th Century British editor whose expurgations of Shakespeare and Gibbon gave rise to the word bowdlerize. The book will also discuss expurgation before and after Bowdler and changing sensibilities as shown by changes in expurgation.
Two books by Jacob Neusner, Assistant Professor of Religion, are being published. His History and Torah:Essays on Jewish Learning was published last month by Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., London, and will be published in a U.S. edition in the fall by Schocken Books, N. Y. His other book, A History of the Jews in Babylonia: I.The Parthian Period, will be published this month by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Holland, in the Studia Postbiblica series.
Professor Neusner was elected to membership in the American Society for the Study of Religion at the Society's sixth annual meeting in New York recently.
THE Rev. George H. Kalbfleisch, director of undergraduate religious life, has been elected president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. Mr. Kalbfleisch had served as vice-president and as secretary of the organization and was one of its founders. It is composed of chaplains and directors of religious life in higher education.
THOMAS A. SPENCER, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded an unusual grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The two-year, $20,500 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship is unusual in that it is not awarded for a specific project. Instead, candidates are nominated by other scientists familiar with their research and potential. The recipients are free to choose their own research and even to change or modify their projects after starting them.
Professor Spencer plans to use his grant to continue his research in the role of the nitrogen atom in certain organic compounds which serve as catalysts for the formation of carbon-to-carbon chemical bonds.
I NOTHER unusual research grant went to Prof. William T. Jackson of the Biological Sciences Department. This is a three-year, $89,911 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how herbicides and other plant-growth regulators affect plants. It was the first grant awarded to Dartmouth by the Agriculture Department and is among the first the Department has awarded for support of basic research on the mechanism of herbicide action.
THE American Industrial Development Council has named Prof. Albert S. Carlson of the Geography Department chairman of its Collegiate Courses Committee. The committee's assignment is to encourage the development of more courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels to prepare students in the rapidly expanding fields of industrial location and area development.
WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, has consulted at colleges throughout the world on bibliographies of Chinese thought in a formal way. He has performed the same function informally at Dartmouth over the years. Now, through the Comparative Studies Center, this latter arrangement will be formalized. He will be available at the Center to faculty members who may be interested in readings on East Asia or on selected aspects of Indian thought.
THE College will receive a grant to purchase a new nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for use in chemical research. This was made possible by a National Institutes of Health award of $88,490 to Prof. Paul R. Shafer of the Chemistry Department. The instrument is used to determine the detailed arrangement of atoms within a molecule.
PROF. RICHARD EBERHART '26, Poet in Residence, has lectured at three institutions recently. He delivered the Edward Austin Sheldon Lecture at the State University College at Oswego, N. Y., and the second annual Wallace Stevens Address at the University of Connecticut, and read his poetry at Pine Manor Junior College.
Two faculty members have been awarded a $75,000 grant by the Division of Accident Prevention of the U.S. Public Health Service for a four-year study of accidental poisoning of children. They are Dr. Raymond Sobel, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School and Assistant Medical Director of the College Health Service, and Bernard E. Segal '55, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School. The study, "Accidental Poisoning in Childhood: A Psychosocial Study," is a continuation of previous research by Dr. Sobel. He has found that psychological and social factors, as well as ignorance and innocence, enter into "accidental" poisoning of small children.
The Motley Crew, faculty powered in part, gave the lightweight Chinese Bandits atough race on the Connecticut last month. Left to right: John Stebbins, Hanoverattorney; Elislia Huggins, Assistant Professor of Physics; Walter Stockmayer, Classof 1925, Professor of Chemistry; Scott Palmer '59, Assistant Dean of Freshmen;Thaddeus Seymour, Dean of the College; Henry Ehrmann, Joel Parker Professor ofLaw and Political Science; John Van Horn of Norwich. In front, Coxswain RaymondSobel, Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Medical Director of the College.
Hanover'Hanover's annual book sale drew crowdsto WebstWebster and made money for alumnae-sponnae-sponsored scholarship funds ofWellesleWellesley, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Vassarand Simmand Simmons.
