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David T. Lindgren, a geography professor, was part of a U.S. delegation to a conference in the Soviet Union over the summer. He was one of 40 young American professionals spending two weeks in the Soviet Union at an annual meeting jointly sponsored by the Committee of Youth Organizations in the U.S.S.R. and the Forum for U.S.-Soviet Dialogue, a non-partisan, non-profit group based in Amherst, N.H. The conference discussed relations between the two countries, arms control, East-West trade, and the roles of education and the media in the two countries.

Professors P. Bruce Pipes and Richard R. Sheldon have been named associate deans of the faculty. Pipes, a physics professor, is new associate dean for the sciences, replacing C. Dwight Lahr, named dean of the faculty in May. Sheldon, a professor of Russian language and literature, replaced Timothy Duggan, a philosophy professor, as associate dean for the humanities; Duggan's four-year term had concluded. Pipes, at Dartmouth since 1972, has done research on superconductor metals at extremely low temperatures and received the Fish Award for excellence in teaching. He earned his B.A. at Rice and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford. Sheldon, a specialist on Russian writer and critic Viktor B. Shklovsky, came to Dartmouth in 1966. He received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.

Three Dartmouth government professors presented position papers at a workshop on campus attended by scholars, journalists, and government and foundation officials from several Western European countries and the United States. Professors Gene Lyons, Laurence Radway, and David Baldwin prepared background papers on the topic of relations between the U.S. and its Western European allies. Participants in the three-day workshop, held in late July under the auspices of the Dickey Endowment for International Understanding, included three other Dartmouth professors (Henry Ehrmann, professor emeritus of government, and Michael Ermarth and Heide Whelan, associate professors of history); a former vice president of the World Bank; Ronald Spiers '48, U.S. under secretary of state for management; a Washingtonbased German correspondent; three representatives from the London School of Economics; and others.