dents was also a record—1,208—136 more than last fall. Of the 1,930 new students registered at Tech this fall, 1,457 are freshmen, 246 are graduate students, and the rest are transfers.
Themis Projects Awarded Tech TECH was among eight schools in the nation which received two major research contracts under the Department of Defense's Themis Project. The Institute will receive about $175, 000 annually for research performed under each of the two contracts. It is expected that these projects will be supported for a period of three to six years. The $20.5 million program is aimed at strengthening the nation's universities, increasing the number of institutions performing research of high quality and achieving a wider geographic distribution of research funds. The DoD received 479 proposals from 171 colleges and universities for Themis contracts and only 50 programs were approved. Project Themis funds at Tech will be used for research in the areas of "Low Speed Flight" under the direction of Dr. Robert L. Carlson, professor of aerospace engineering, and to establish an interdisciplinary research program on "Interface Phenomena in Engineering Materials," directed by Dr. Edwin J. Scheibner, Chief, Physical Sciences Division of Tech's Engineering Experiment Station. Low speed flight research studies will include fluid mechanics, structural dynamics, and aeroelasticity. Scheibner's group will study the phenomena occurring at the interfaces between different materials or between different phases of the same material. Although attention will be oriented toward materials of practical importance in engineering, the program is intended to contribute knowledge of the basic phenomena as well.
Chemistry's Pierotti Honored DR.
ROBERT
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associate
professor of Chemistry, is one of only twenty researchers in the United States to receive a NATO fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of the fellowship is to promote discussions on scientific research and development between the U.S. and countries abroad which are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the spring of 1968, Pierotti will make a trip to the University of Bristol in England to discuss his research November-December 1967
in physical chemistry with others engaged in similar studies.
New Teaching Faculty Announced Two administrative appointments and new teaching faculty have been announced. Dr. Walter Lyon Bloom has been named Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and James L. Clegg, Assistant Dean of Students. The new teaching faculty members are: Aerospace Engineering: Louis H. Bangert, Associate Professor; D. P. Giddens, Assistant Professor; John C. Handley, Research Engineer; W. H. Horton, Professor; Tung Mau Li, Assistant Professor; Edward W. Price, Professor; and L. W. Rehfield, Assistant Professor. Applied Biology: Henry J. Kania, Instructor; and Edward Yeagers, Assistant Professor. Architecture: A. J. Cantanese, Assistant Professor; Arnall T. Connell, Associate Professor; Dale A. Durfee, Assistant Professor; Roger F. Rupnow, Associate Professor; Albert H. Smith, Jr., Instructor; and Robert J. Young, Assistant Professor. Ceramic Engineering: Joe K. Cochran, Instructor; and C. O. Pollard, Jr., Assistant Professor. Chemistry: Grandhi L. Chetty, Post Doctoral Fellow; Bruce D. James, Post Doctoral Fellow; Joseph T. Laemmle, Assistant Research Chemist; and Norman G. Schaautz, Post Doctoral Fellow. Civil Engineering: C. N. Holland, Instructor; Robert N. Hutchison, Instructor; E. E. Osborn, Assistant Research Chemist; Johannes H. Reuter, Associate Professor; and William Sangster, Professor and Director. Electrical Engineering: P. D. Bergstrom, Instructor; N. W. Cox, Jr., Assistant Professor; and Jay H. Schlag, Assistant Professor. Engineering Mechanics: Jerry M. Anderson, Assistant Professor; and Julius Siekmann, Professor. English: George A. Fuhr, Assistant Professor; Peter D. Zivkovic, Assistant Professor; and Charles J. Pecor, Assistant Professor. Industrial Engineering: Frank A. Collins, Assistant Research Engineer; James B. Mathews, Research Engineer; Phillip A. Reed, Assistant Professor; Daniel Sipper, Instructor; and Dwight R. Wedgwich, Assistant Research Engineer. Industrial Management: Jerry L. Dake, Assistant Professor; John R. Kaatz, Assistant Professor; Ralph A. Maggio, Associate Professor, and Roy G. Stout, Special Lecturer. Information Science: Lucio Chairavaglio, Associate Professor; and Jesse H. Poore, Jr., Research Associate.
Mathematics: James J. Buckley, Instructor; and Stanley Mendell, Instructor. Mechanical Engineering: William Z. Black, Assistant Professor; Stephen J. Citron, Visiting Professor; William R. Clough, Professor; and Stothe P. Kezios, Professor and Director. Nuclear Engineering: James H. Rust, Assistant Professor. Physics: Stevenson Caticha-EUis, Sr., Post Doctoral Fellow; C. P. Frahm, Assistant Professor; E. Kondaiah, N S F Senior Foreign Scientist; T. H. Kwon, Post Doctoral Fellow; M. Takebe, Research Associate; and James M. Tanner, Associate Professor. Psychology: Richard K. Davenport, Jr., Lecturer; William K. Fox, Lecturer; John V. Manatis, Assistant Professor; Peter Mayfield, Lecturer; and Richard Olshavsky, Assistant Professor. Social Sciences: Hugh T. Atkinson, Instructor; Joseph W. Barry, Instructor; Jon J. Johnson, Assistant Professor; Robert L. Wendt, Lecturer; and John Yungblut, Lecturer. STI—Chemistry and Physics: Maria Trinidad Bolet, Assistant Professor. Textile Engineering: C. Willard Ferguson, Assistant Research Scientist; and Rick C. Porter, Assistant Professor. Water Resources Center: Clarence M. Conway, Assistant Director and Lecturer. The ROTC at Tech has been joined by: AFROTC—Captain Geoffrey R. Peters, Air Force Aerospace Studies Instructor; AROTC—Colonel W. W. Bridges, Commanding Officer; Captain E. A.-Allman, Jr.; Lt. Col. M. J. Burke, Jr.; Sergeant Major E. F. Reynolds; and Major D. W. Ryan, Jr.; NROTC—Commander Robert B. Ulm, Executive Officer, Naval ROTC; Lt. (jg) Donald R. Blakely, Freshman Instructor.
"Mini" Reactor Acquired A NUCLEAR training reactor, recently acquired by Tech, should be in operation soon after the first of the year. According to Robert L. Zimmerman, Radiological Safety Officer for Tech, the new reactor has a maximum capacity of 100 milliwatts. This is only one fifty-millionth of the power level of Tech's large research reactor which has been in operation almost three years. The training reactor will be installed in the new facilities of the School of Nuclear Engineering which are currently under construction. "The smaller reactor will be used primarily for training students by the School of Nuclear Engineering," said Professor F. W. Chambers, Jr., who 31