The Faculty
DEAN Myron Tribus and Prof. Robert C. Dean Jr. of the Thayer School have been named winners of a 1967 Master Designer Award. They were among ten engineers so honored by Product Engineering, a professional periodical published by McGraw-Hill.
The awards were presented at a dinner in Hopkins Center. Among those attending were President Dickey, Walter A. Stanbury, editor-in-chief of the magazine, and representatives of companies enrolled in the Thayer School Educational Partnership and Associates Programs.
Recipients of the awards are honored for their distinguished contributions to the design engineering field. Dean Tribus and Professor Dean won awards in the "Engineer and His Profession" category for helping develop new methods of engineering education.
PETER A. BIEN, Associate Professor of English, is one of 19 teachers in the nation who have been honored with the Danforth Foundation's 1968 E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The award seeks to honor teacher-scholars who excel in the art of teaching, in the significance of their scholarly contribution, and in their concern for students as individuals.
Bien and the other recipients received their awards at a dinner in Washington, D. C., presided over by Victor L. Butter-field, recently retired president of Wesleyan University and chairman of the selection board.
Each award winner has the option of selecting either a $10,000 cash grant or freedom from his usual academic responsibilities for one semester or two quarters for use he deems most helpful to his teaching and scholarship.
Other Dartmouth faculty members who previously received the Harbison Award are Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Professor of Religion (1963) and Joseph D. Harris, Associate Professor of Physics (1966).
WILLIAM E. SLESNICK, Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented a report on the grading on the 1967 Advanced Placement Examination to the regional Association of Advanced Placement Mathematics Teachers at Milton Academy, Milton, Mass.. . . Jacob Neusner, Associate Professor of Religion, was elected vice-president and program chairman of the American Academy of Religion at its meeting in Chicago.... Prof. Colin D. Campbell of the Economics Department has been appointed a staff member of the Advisory Committee on Social Security of the National Bureau of Economic Research. .. . Prof. Churchill P. Lathrop of the Art Department discussed "Ideas and Images of the Renaissance" at the inauguration of the William B. Jaffe Art Lecture Series at Deerfield Academy. . . . Dr. Carleton B. Chapman, Dean of the Medical School, writing as a guest editorial-page columnist in The Boston Globe, stressed the need for regional planning of medical services and criticized the "artificial partition" of New England in current medical planning.
DARTMOUTH'S teacher-scholars are as busy in the laboratory and field as in the classroom. Among recent research grants were $143,500 from the National Science Foundation to Gene E. Likens, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, for research entitled "Hydro-logic-mineral Cycle Interaction in Small Undisturbed and Man-manipulated Ecosystems"; $35,000 from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare to Francis W. Gramlich, Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, for the College's Language and Area Center for East Asia; $20,900 from the National Science Foundation to Alvin O. Converse, Associate Professor of Engineering, for "Chemical Reactor Design"; $44,000 from the National Science Foundation to Augustus E. DeMaggio, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, for "Morphogenetic Correlations in a Polyploid Series of Plants"; $13,000 from the National Science Foundation to Robert W. Decker, Professor of Geophysics, for "Measurement of Horizontal Ground Surface Deformation in Iceland"; $7,000 from the Research Corporation to James H. Vignos, Assistant Professor of Physics, to construct a low-temperature refrigerator which will maintain temperatures close to absolute zero (minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit); $26,613 from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society to Thomas A. Spencer Jr., Associate Professor of Chemistry, for study on "A New Alkylation Method"; $26,670 from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society to David M. Lemal, Associate Professor of Chemistry, for study of the "Stereo-chemistry of Cyclic Fragmentations"; and $46,000 from the National Science Foundation to Professor Raymond W. Barratt of the Biology Department for "Genetic Stock Center for Neurospora and Aspergillus."
HENRY W. EHRMANN, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, found himself in the midst of the unprecedented student unrest in Berlin while he was a guest professor at the Free University of Berlin last spring.
He also lectured in the University of Vienna, and participated in a meeting in Paris sponsored by the Comparative Administration Group whose world headquarters are in New York City.
Soon after his return to campus this fall, Professor Ehrmann packed his bags again for Montreal where he addressed McGill University's annual convention on World Affairs. His talk, entitled "Parties, Groups and Society in Contemporary France," opened a four-day conference on the problems of modern France, attended by many Canadian and European scholars.
Dean Myron Tribus (r) and Prof. Robert C. Dean Jr. (I) of Thayer School withEditor Walter Stanbury of "Product Engineering" who presented them with themagazine's 1967 Master Designer Award for contributions to design engineering.
