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

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Progress: Biological Science THE DEPARTMENT of Zoology, like the other sciences at Maryland, is greatly ex- panding, not only in research, but in teaching methods and information. Every professor in the department, together with graduate as- sistants and undergraduate students in the honors program, is involved in research from the molecular level to animal populations and evolu- tion. Grants from the National Science Founda- tion, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion have further expanded and enhanced in- vestigations. Projects under study include description and experimental manipulation of mammalian social organizations, histochemical investiga- tions to determine the effect of probable neuro- endocrine structure on the growth, maturation, and differentiation of the primary and secondary sex characteristics in annelids, and factors controlling hatching of Daphnia resting eggs. The curriculum is also being modernized and enlarged with emphasis on new discoveries, techniques and methods in zoological studies. JANET SENKEWITZ records temperture changes in a tenrec as a part of a major behavior study of the order Insectivura. DR. HARRIS J. LINDER is involved in histochemical investigations on annelids (worms). w 9

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k L. THE RADIO-TV WORKSHOP offers students, who have some famiUarity with the equipment and procedures, the opportunity to develop and practice techniques out- side of normal classroom instruction. The most modern television cameras, recently added to the speech depart- ment, give the students the tools to develop abilities, not only in the technical workings of electrical communica- tions, but also in the dramatic arts.

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■ SI p- ' ---,-« A SOLUTION to an 85-year-old controversy is being developed by Dr. R. G. Stress and graduate assistant Jeanne Hill (Above) how crov fding causes some of the lovyfer animals to enter a dormant stage. The research animals, daphnia, do not respond to crowding unless the length of daylight is comparable to the length of daylight in an autumn day.