University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Chemistry THE CHEMISTRY department is presently engaged in numerous research programs in- cluding an examination of properties of sub- stances under very high pressure by Raman and infrared spectroscopy, the kinetics of competi- tive and consecutive reactions, chemical phenomena caused by ultrasonics, and the elec- tro-conductivity of complex salts. In addition, work is being done of the determination of molecular structures. Kinetic and reaction rate studies which utiHze mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques are also under research in the department. In the area of organic chemistry, methods are being studied in the synthesis of monomers important in the preparation of polymers, highly unsaturated compounds, substances of plant hormonal activity, complex heterocyclics and polyphenyls. Biochemistry investigations include kinetics of enzyme catalyzed reactions, and the role of trace metal in biological systems. DRP H warn B 1 - tiP n 9 fi i INbI ' m H HBii HI mk ES ( H 1 1 ABOVE — Frank Garland measures ultrasonic absorption in a liquid investigation of the kinetics of hydrogen band formation. RIGHT — Bassam Shakhashiri works on a high vacuum line to prepare a sample for mass spec- trometer analysis.

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4. . ,. • ' . ■fbfc s DR. JOHN S. TOLL (right) with President Wilson H. Elkins announces the decision of the Atomic Energy Commission to grant $3 million to the construction of a Progress: Physical Science 100 million electron volt cyclotron at the University in College Park. The project was begun this year and com- pletion is expected in three years. Physics NUMEROUS ADVANCES in development and program enlargement were made by the physics department this year. Shown on the frontispiece of the TERRAPIN is a bubble cham- ber photograph in which a new mode of decay of a rare subatomic particle, omega minus, was observed. The event was produced at the Brookhaven National Laboratory by a team of physicists from the University and the Naval Research Laboratory. The decay mode was predicted by present theoretical ideas before its demonstration experimentally. Also this year, the Atomic Energy Commis- sion have agreed to negotiate a contract for design and construction of a cyclotron. The AEC will provide $3 million toward the c(»st of the facility. The machine ' s design will permit ac- celeration of deuterons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) and other heavy nuclei, as well as protons. The equipment is expected to achieve a proton energy of about 100 million electron volts. THE THREE MILLION electron volt Van de Graaff generator is used to accelerate positively charged ions into various light nuclei to study their properties.

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. 1 i .. , 3 V7.-- ' THE ART department is experimenting with numerous new techniques and materials. This student paints liquid metal into a plaster mold which, when hard, wiU form a metal head. The process is extremely tedious and re- quires great patience. With the opening ot the new build- ing, the art department will have more expanded and modern facilities. The fine arts department were housed EXTRA-CURRICULAR bands and orchestras supple- ment music instruction for both music majors and non-music majors. Progress: The Humanities ' yHE EXPANSION of the humanities pro- - ' - gram received its greatest impetus in the construction of a $2.5 miUion fine arts building designed by Henry Powell Hopkins of Bahi- more. The building will contain a 1400 seat auditorium with one of the finest stages in the Washington area. A radio and television studio, a recital hall, art gallery, band and choral re- hersal halls, 32 music practice rooms and many other areas for work in the fine arts are st)me of the attractions of the building. The fine arts departments continued to ex- pand and reorganize programs. The art depart- ment added a third area of study, bringing about studies in studio art, education and art history. The speech department began an extra-cur- ricular Radio-TV Workshop to supplement in- class instruction.