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17. SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY AND STAFF

     Carol Polsgrove, English instructor at Maysville Community
College, recently published articles in "The Washington Star," on
the "APPALSHOP," and onthe same subject in "Sight and Sight," Inter-
national Film Quarterly.

     Dr. Kenneth K. Kubota, assistant professor of mathematics, has
been named recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellow-
ship.

     Dr. P. P. Karan, chairman of the Department of Geography, re-
turned at the end of March from a tour of two Asian countries. He
participated in a symposium on the geography of the Himalayas, held
in New Delhi, and spent two weeks in Sikkim, updating earlier field
work data collected in that country.

     Dr. William A. Withington, associate professor of geography, was
in Houston in early March as a social sciences panel reviewer for the
National Science Foundation, screening Undergraduate Student Equipment
Program applications for matching funds to be submitted to the Founda-
tion.

     Dr. Herbert Reid, associate professor of political science, is
editor of "Up the Mainstream," a book to be published this month by
David McKay, publishers. Dr. Reid wrote five articles for the volume;
25 articles are by other scholars on ideology in American politics and
everyday life.

     Dr. William H. Brooks, chief resident of neurosurgery at the
College of Medicine, has been named recipient of the Southern Neuro-
surgical Society's first place award for his paper, "The Immunology
of Brain Tumors."

     Dr. Eldon D. Smith, professor of agricultural economics, was in
New York last month to confer with others on the possibility of pub-
lishing a jointly-edited collection of readings relating to agricultural
marketing problems of less-developed areas. The meeting was called by
officials of the Agricultural Development Council.

     A first meeting of the National Advisory Committee to the Sub-
committee on Agriculture, Marketing, and Related Industries, of the
Extension Committee on Organization Planning, will be held in Minne-
apolis May 14-16. Dr. Harold G. Love, associate extension professor
of agricultural economics, is a member of the committee.

     The first meeting of the newly-formed Kentucky Philological
Association, held at Murray State University, was attended by six
members of the Department of English. They were Profs. Joseph A.
Bryant, Stephen Manning, John Via, Gordon Cheesewright, Richard Sugg,
and Thomas B. Stroup. They all read papers or took part in panel dis-
cussions. Dr. Stroup, first president of the Association, presented
the opening address and presided at the general meetings.

     Dr. Joan Blythe, assistant professor of English, has been granted
a fellowship for the summer at the Southeastern Institute of Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, where she will be studying in the seminar on
"Medieval Virtues and Vices."