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3.  BEGIN HYDROGEN RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

     Theoretical research on hydrogen production processes will
begin this month in the College of Engineering.  Dean James E.
Funk and Dr. William L. Conger, associate professor of chemical
engineering, have received a $25,692 grant from the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration for a 10-month study.

     They will be dealing with theory and computer computations
rather than with laboratory hardware. They will develop and im-
plement a procedure for evaluating methods for producing hydrogen
other than by electrolysis. Electrolysis is a method of producing
hydrogen by passing an electric current through water, which
"cracks"water molecules, thereby separating hydrogen from oxygen.

     Many engineers and scientists believe that hydrogen, the
most abundant element in the universe, will become the principal
source of industrial energy within the next 30 to 40 years.



4.   LECTURERS-RESEARCHERS LEAVE NEXT MONTH ON FULBRIGHTS

     A number of faculty and staff members will begin leaving next
month for tours abroad to research and lecture under the auspices
of the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship program.

     They include: Dr. Ronald Dillehay, professor of psychology,
who will lecture on behavioral science at the Catholic University
of Lima, Peru; Dr. Robert W. Randall, associate professor of history,
who will lecture on American and Latin American history at the
University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina; Dr. Edward T. Ordman,
assistant professor of mathematics, who will conduct research in the
general areas of infinite and large topological mathematical groups
at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

     Dr. P. K. Kadaba, professor in electrical engineering, who will
conduct research on solid state physics at the University of Ljubl-
jana, Yugoslavia; Dean James Funk of the College of Engineering, who
will spend six' weeks in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with the Escuela Super-
ior Polytecnica del Litoral; Dr. George E. Mitchell Jr., coordinator
of Graduate Studies in the College of Agriculture, who will research
the interaction between calcium and phosphorous status and energy
metabolism in dairy cattle at the Ruakura Center in Hamilton, New
Zealand.

     Vyrle W. Owens, field director of the University Year for Action,
who will do research on comparative education and technological inno-
vation in the Philippines, and James Pettinari, College of Architecture,
who will lecture on architecture and urban planning at the Universidad
Catolica, in Ecuador.

     Dr. Michael Impey, assistant professor in the Department of
Spanish and Italian , will do research in Romania under a grant from
the International Research and Exchanges Board.