Faculty news

Rieser named to journal Leonard Rieser '44, currently Fairchild Professor and director of the Dickey Endowment and formerly provost and dean of the faculty, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Bulletin of theAtomic Scientists. The journal, which this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding, includes among its original sponsors Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Owen Chamberlain '41, and many others who worked on the Manhattan Project.

Science career cited

Michael Fanselow, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1985 by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association.

Wilcox gets grant

Dean Wilcox, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a research grant from the Research Corporation of Tucson, Ariz., for spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of urease. The Research Corporation supports fundamental scientific research and the transfer of technology to benefit the public.

Galaxies discussed

Gary Wegner, associate professor of physics and astronomy, hosted six internationally-acclaimed astronomers in Hanover for ten days in July. The six, who have spent much of the past five years studying galaxies, met to finalize their findings. Among the topics they discussed were the measurement of distances in space and the origins of galaxies.

Eberhart is honored

Richard Eberhart '26, professor of English emeritus and Dartmouth's poet laureate, received an honorary degree from St. Lawrence University and was honored with the establishment of a poetry prize in his name at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

Thayer chair funded

A new professorship in microelectronics has been established at the Thayer School of Engineering with a $240,000 grant from Analog Devices, Inc. The chair will support a senior faculty member for four years, beginning with a $60,000 installment about a year from now.

Committee selected

In response to a resolution calling for the formation of a Faculty Ad Hoc Com- mittee on Governance, the Committee on Organization and Policy has selected the following faculty members to serve: William Cook, Charles Drake, Deborah Garretson, Elaine Jahner, Robert Kleck, David Sices, Roger Soderberg, and Richard Winters. Sices is chairing the committee, which began meeting during the summer.

Extracurricular

Two Dartmouth professors—Jeremy Rutter in classics and Robert Jerard in engineering coached a team of students to the national level in a creative intellectual competition. Their charges, not college students, but fourth and sixth graders from Lebanon's Seminary Hill School, took top honors in their age and topic category on the state level in the "Odyssey of the Mind" contest and went on the national finals in Washington, D.C. Both have children at the Seminary Hill School.

Early June brought a fortuitous literary event to Hanover: a meeting of all three authors of bookson the modern Dartmouth presidencies. From left to right are Arthur Lord '10, with his Dr. Tucker's Dartmouth; Charles Widmayer '30, author of Hopkins of Dartmouth; and PeterSmith, an adopted '35 who is currently writing a history of the Dickey presidency.