Faculty

In a fast-changing world, research not only has value in its right, it often is essential to effective teaching. Recent grants and other awards which have come to the attention of this column indicate something of the research going forward at Dartmouth.

Two members of the Chemistry Department have received a $164,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue for four more years a research project on "Energy Transfers in Molecular Solids." Co-directors of the project are Asst. Prof. Charles L. Braun and Prof. James F. Hornig, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies.

The project involves basic research into the process of photoconductivity in organic solids, or what happens when simple organic crystalline materials absorb light. As part of the research, the two scientists and their assistants-three graduate students and a postdoctoral research instructor—take measurements of light emission on a time scale as short as one billionth of a second. Said Professor Braun,' "The excitement and pleasure we derive from our work with organic molecular crystals comes from the traditional source: a desire to understand nature better."

Another research team, this one based in the Geography Department, has been awarded a $51,840 grant from the U. S. Department of Interior to support the second phase of a highaltitude land-use mapping of major eastern cities by means of advanced remote sensing devices.

Robert B. Simpson, Professor of Geography and director of the Dartmouth remote sensing project which began last year with the mapping of the Greater Boston metropolitan area, said it is hoped that the Dartmouth experimentation on mapping patterns of urbanization in New England will be included in a planned launch next year by NASA of an unmanned earthoriented satellite designed solely for earth resource study.

Working with Professor Simpson are David S. Lindgren arid Van H. English, both also College geographers who specialize in photo interpretation and cartography. The multi-city urban map currently under development from thousands of pictures taken by remote sensors from high altitude NASA aircraft will serve as a prototype for a program to be initiated soon covering 26 cities throughout the United States.

The experiments, Professor Simpson explained, are intended to develop effective applications of space technology to problems of maintaining resource inventories, monitoring changes in urban and regional environments and providing periodic assessments of the qualities of those environments to help guide policy decisions affecting resource management.

In still a third area, Richard T. Holmes, Associate Professor of Biology, recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has received a grant of $44,000 from the National Science Foundation for a study of the ecology and behavior of birds, mammals and insects in northern hardwood forests. The study, which is being conducted in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in north-central New Hampshire, one of the few tracts in the Northeast still largely free from human society's direct pollution, focuses on the role and importance of animals in forest ecosystems.

Gordon W. Gribble, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a five-year Research Career Development Award by the National Institutes of Health. Purpose of the award is to encourage young scientists with outstanding research potential for careers of independent research in the sciences related to health.

Professor Gribble's work will be on the development of new and efficient laboratory syntheses of anti-tumor drugs presently only available in very small quantities from certain plants. He will also explore means of identifying and exploring insect attractants for possible use in pest control.

Professor Frank Smallwood '51, Chairman of the College's Urban Studies Program, has returned from Greece, where he was a member of the U. S. delegation at the Delos IX Symposium on Urban Education and Housing. While there, he served on the Symposium's education committee, chaired by Dr. Margaret Mead, which drafted a resolution for the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements and the Environment to be held next year in Stockholm. The final Delos IX report on housing policy urged a "massive reordering of government programs to insure that housing and human settlements receive a fully adequate share of national resources."

Yet Professor Smallwood's concerns were not only international. The Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs also was one of only four professors among 18 witnesses called to testify before the Urban Affairs Subcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. In his testimony, Professor Smallwood recommended revisions in Congressional policy facilitating interstate cooperation as the best way to deal with regional planning issues. Finally, as chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Education Planning in Vermont and a trustee of the Vermont State Colleges, Professor Smallwood has a key role in the committee's efforts to develop a comprehensive structure for higher education throughout the Green Mountain State.

Asst. Prof. Daniel A. Lindley Jr., acting chairman of the Education Department, has moved to make the department's resources more readily available to public school teachers in the region adjacent to the College.

"In the past," he explained, "we have sent Dartmouth students out to the local school systems to practice teach. This helps the students, to be sure, but it's a one-way street. We are not helping the local school system. I'd like to get local teachers in to meet with us in seminar situations and to feel free to visit any and all classes offered by our department. In this area, I'd like the department to function as a service agency."

Meanwhile, Donald A. Campbell, Associate Professor of Education, has been serving as a consultant helping the State of Vermont to plan for alternative forms of education. "Alternative education," he said, "would allow students to study subjects not usually in the school curriculum. For instance, instead of approaching English simply as literature, it could be taught with the emphasis on creative writing, or drama, or it could be integrated with other subjects."

Also on the educational front, George C. Jernstedt, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dartmouth, spoke recently at a two-day conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the controversial teaching method known as the "Keller Plan," which emphasizes self-paced or studenttutored learning. Dr. Jernstedt reported on his experience in conducting a psychology course under the Keller Plan for several years. Nine other Dartmouth professors representing the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Psychology also attended the MIT conference, and later the Physics Department at the College conducted a colloquium on the plan.

In memory of the late Dr. Andrew G. Truxal, a long-time Dartmouth College faculty member who later went on to serve successively as president of two Maryland colleges, an anonymous alumnus has given Dartmouth $54,000 to endow a library fund for the purchase of books and associated materials in the field of sociology. A portion of the funds may also be expended for a memorial study room in Baker Library bearing Dr. Truxal's name. He taught sociology at Dart- mouth for 20 years until 1948 when he assumed the presidency of Hood College at Frederick, Md. He became president of the Anne Arundel Community College in Severna Park, Md., following retirement from Hood College in 1961. He died in Florida early last year at the age of 71.

At the Medical School, Dr. Saul Blatman, eminent pediatrician long associated with the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, has been appointed the first chairman of the new Department of Maternal and Child Health.

A graduate of Brown University in 1940 with a major in biology, Dr. Blatman first entered the field of infectious disease control with the U. S. Public Health Service and then with the Army, and as a result of his experience was motivated to enter Duke University School of Medicine after World War II, earning his M.D. degree in 1950.

When he accepted the departmental chairmanship at Dartmouth Medical School, he was director of pediatrics at Beth Israel Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, also in New York City. He earlier also taught pediatrics for several years at New York University School of Medicine and was associate visiting pediatrician at Bellevue Hospital. He served for two years, 1959-61, as chief of pediatrics at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver and while there taught pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical School. He started his teaching career as an instructor in pediatrics at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Other new appointments at the Medical School include Dr. Gary J. Tucker, assistant chief of psychiatry at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and former Naval flight surgeon, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Dr. Arthur R. Jacobs, a specialist in systems for delivering health care and the development of community health care centers, as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Rochester, interned at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, served in Seattle, Wash., with the U. S. Public Health Service and received the master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

One of the most influential positions in medicine in the United States has been accorded Dr. Carleton B. Chapman, Dean of the Medical School, with his election as chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) at the association's annual meeting in Washington, D. C. Dr. Chapman is a past president of the American Heart Association and recipient of its Gold Heart Award for work in heart disease, cancer and stroke.

Another honor bestowed on a member of the Medical School faculty is the Career Development Award made to Dr. Joseph W. Inselburg, Assistant Professor of Microbiology. The award from the National Institutes of Health spans five years and will be used by Dr. Inselburg to pursue his study of DNA and associated cellular processes.

Meanwhile, a grant of $35,000 has been made by the National Science Foundation to the Medical School in support of research on "Protein Synthesis in Regenerating Rat Liver and Mitochondria," being conducted under the direction of Dr. Leonard I. Malkin, Associate Professor of Biochemistry.

Facing the other way and assisting the government, Dr. Bernard J. Bergen, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, has been named consultant to the division of manpower and training programs of the psychiatry training branch of the National Institutes of Health, HEW.

At the Thayer School of Engineering, Prof. George A. Colligan has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $62,100 for continued research in the control of the solidification process of metals and alloys. Professor Colligan, who last year was awarded the Pangborn Gold Medal by the American Foundryman's Soci- ety, said, "The ability to control the solidification of cast metals and alloys will help the production of tailor-made metals for specific use and new applications." He cited as examples the use of an aluminum alloy engine in at least one American compact automobile and the controlled casting of jet engine turbine blades.

Engineering Professor Paul T. Shannon is one of 17 chemical engineering educators drawn from universities throughout the United States and Canada to serve on a panel called the CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education) Committee established by the National Academy of Engineering's Commission on Education. Principal purpose of the committee will be to coordinate and encourage the development of computing systems for "use in chemical engineering education. Professor Shannon has been named chairman of the panel's subcommittee on standards for programming or coding.

Also tagged to contribute his know-how, Edward S. Brown '34, Professor of Civil Engineering at Thayer, has been named to represent Dartmouth in a consortium of a dozen New Englane colleges and universities established to coordinate research efforts against an pollution.