NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

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,fr RQ PROFESSOR GEORGE M. MURPHY PROFESSOR BROOKS F. ELLIS CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT Professor Murphy, chairman of the Chemistry Department, wrote a series of articles entitled National Nuclear Energy Series for the Atomic Energy Commission, while Professors Vance and King each received government contracts from the AEC for work on processes of crystallization and processes of corrosion respectively. GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT Professor Brooks F. Ellis, head of the Geology Department, worked at the American Museum, studying the life habits of various plant and animal forms, to be applied in the detection of submerged oil fields. Again this season, Dr. Walthier took a group of students to Labrador to work for a mining organization.

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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT This year the Biology Department, under the direction of Professor Charipper, gave a series of lectures for honor students at Bronx High School of Science. Individual members of the department were en- gaged in a research project on the inHuence of endocrine mechanisms as factors determining the constitution of the blood. PHYSICS DEPARTMENT Under the direction of Dr. Shamos, graduate students in the Phys- ics Department carried out experimental work on cosmic rays, with basic research being done in the laboratory. Work was also started in the fields of microwaves and nuclear physics by other members of the departmental faculty. PROFESSOR HARRY A. C1-IARxPPER PROFESSOR CAREL VAN DER MERWE

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PROFESSOR EMANU EL STEIN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT t Projects for the Economics Department this year included the de- velopment of a new elementary text book and the introduction of bi- weekly seminars. Professor Stein, who also devotes time to the Re- gional Wage Stabilization Board, was elected departmental chairman. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER BALTZLY HISTORY DEPARTMENT l A new course, Men and Ideasf' may he taken as an alternative to History I-2, Professor Baltzly, chairman of the department, an- nounced. Professor Salomone spent the year in Italy studying the political and economic effects on that country of the post-Renaissance period. PROFESSOR RAY F. HARVEY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT Professor Harvey, chairman, cited the expanded and coordinated pre-law program, the newly prepared social science studies program, the Russian government courses, and, in general, the enthusiastic tenor of the staff as evidence of increasing activity in the department. r N la