Environmental Study

Sun spots and weather patterns; the future of transportation; international intelligence and scientific thought; science and human values; technology and public policy; energy resources and petroleum geology.

These are some of the topics to be covered in classroom and on lecture platform within the year through a $260,000 grant from the EXXON Foundation to support the Environmental Studies Program at the College.

Five distinguished lecturers have been or will be on campus to discuss their special fields as visiting EXXON Professors in Environmental Technology and Management.

Walter O. Roberts, University of Colorado professor of astro-physics and director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Humanism at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and Robert O. Anderson, chairman of the board of Atlantic Richfield Company, were the first visitors, here during two weeks in April.

In addition to meeting with students in class, Anderson gave a public lecture on "Energy and the Environment" and Professor Roberts on "Solar Activity and Possible Short-Term Meteorological Effects." Together they presented a symposium on "Science and Human Values."

This month Ernest S. Starkman, a former University of California professor of mechanical engineering who is vice president in charge of environmental activities for General Motors, is spending a week at the College, during which he is participating in a symposium on "Future Developments in Transportation in the U.S."

Professor Stevan Dedijer, former director of Yugoslavia's Institute of Nuclear Science, now in charge of the Research Policy Program at the University of Lund in Sweden, is in residence for the spring and summer terms. An earlier visitor in 1972 as a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist, he is teaching a Government Department course on "Science, Technology, and Public Policy" with Professor Gene Lyons. He is also presenting a series of lectures on the role of secrecy and international intelligence organizations in the development of science and the transfer of technology. Later he will offer a comparison of Swedish and American educational systems.

John D. Moody, recently retired senior vice president of Mobil Oil in charge of worldwide exploration and production, now a consultant to the petroleum industry, will be EXXON visiting professor for 1975-76. An early forecaster of diminishing oil reserves, he will be discussing petroleum geology, energy resources and supply, and the geology of New England.

Note: next month's issue will be our last until the fall. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE is adopting a new schedule, replacing the July issue with one in September, but retaining the ten times-a-year frequency.

Eleazar Wheelock's garden sundial, seen here sans gnomon, is soon to be restored.