Milford chronicle., 1960-12-16
IL Grants Awarded
To State University

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isms by which chemical changes
occur.
The chemistry department also
has received four other grants, in
Guiding $37,802 to Assistant Pro-
the Atomic Energy Commission.
DR.. Trumbore is investigating the
effect of nuclear radiation on a
variety of organic substances,
project which may lead to mater
ials of greater resistance to atom
ic radiation and provide informa-
tion on how certain chemicals in
the body are affected by radiation
To Assistant Professor Robert
| H. Wood the National Science
Foundation has awarded $18,7OO
for a three-year study of heat
changes produced when materials
are dissolved or diluted This pro-
ject will provide information on
the forces which hold chemical
substances together.
| Grants of one years duration
have been awarded to Associate
Professor John C. Wriston, Jr., and
Assistant Professor James A
Moore in the amounts of $4,000 and
$4,000, respectively.
DR.. Wriston has received money
from the IT, S. Atomic Energy Com
missions Division of Biology and
Medicine for the acquisition of
equipment to be used in a pro-
gram of instruction on the use of
radioisotopes in the life sciences
bacteriology, biochemistry, physi-
ology and plant biochemistry.
DR.. Moore's exploration of new
classes of organic compounds in
search of materials with possible
physiological activity is being
supported by the Army Chemical
Procurement Agency.
DR.. Charles E. Birchenall, pro-
fessor of metallurgy, has received
two grants from the u. S. Air
Force. The first, covering an 18-
month period, is to finance study
of the measurement of rates and
mechanisms involved in the oxi-
dation or furnishing of metals. In
addition to $4,000 for this project,
he has received $4,000 for the ac-
QUESTION of an Electron Micro
probe X-ray anayzer, device for
| performing a quantitative chemical
analysis on minute volumes of ma
terial down to one micron cube
This equipment will be used to
study the distribution of elements
in the metal oxidation project.
Another project in the field of
metallurgy is being supported by
rected by Assistant Professor
Leonard Skolnick A one-year stu
dy, it calls for an investigation of
.he intermediate phases in the dis
solving of solids into liquid metals
1t is expected that findings will
help to explain the interaction be-
tween solids and liquids and also
shed light on the strength of SOL
DIS which are in contact with liq-
uids. The grant is for $4,000.
Three projects outside the chem
fields are being conducted by Pro-
fessor Johan j. Groot, chairman
of geology and State geologist; As
sociate~ Professor Charles B. Coo
per, physicist; and Professor
John A. Brown of the school of ed
ucatioIf.
Dr. Groot has received $15,240
from the National Science Foun-
dation for a three-year study of
fossil pollen and spores. The OBJ
iect of this work is to determine
the age and environment of dep
osition of non-marine sediments
of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Pol
len now, and in the geologic past,
is distributed by wind and insects
in enormous quantities. Many of
these tiny plant microfossils were
buried in clays and are well pre-
served. Fossils of this type as
old as 400,000,000 years have been
discovered in some deposits.