University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Research In Food Jean Laird observes the eKperimcntal work of Professor W. B. Combs which is designed to facilitate preservation, packaging and transporting of dairy products. WiLLES B. Combs ami Samuel T. Coulter of the dairy husbandry department have been perfecting the powdering of buttermilk and skim milk, raising the melting point of butter so that it will not melt so quickly at high temperatures, and developing plastic cream. To save rubber, Dr. Dowell made .1 survey in Mar- tin County of overlapping milk and farm routes. Consulting with the farmers. Dr. Dowell worked out a schedule eliminating much of the duplication. Prof. H. S. Hayes was sent to Chile in 1941 by the Nelson Rockefeller Committee to teach plant breed- ing to men in the Chilean Department of Agriculture and to help them organize their research. THE Dight Institute, directed by Dr. C. P. Oliver, is one of the three focal points for the research of human genetics in the country. Cornell and Michigan are the other two centers. In his will Dr. C. F. Dight bequeathed a fund for the promotion of the study of eugenics at Minnesota provided that the In.stitute instruct not only U. classes but also the pub- lic by lectures and pamphlets, that the Institute collect records of family traits and anomalies such as dental defects, twins, blood di.seases, nervous ilisorders, blind- ness and long-lived families, and that the office. Room 10 Zoology buililing, be open for consultation and advice. The data collecteil by the Institute will be used in uenetic stiulies such as the determination of Professor Herbert Hayes has done much work elevating the position of the lowly potato. Service men in the tropics were the inspiration for Dr. Raymond Bicter ' s work on substitutes for quinine in the treatment and prevention of malaria.

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Medical Research THIS war has greatly increased the needs for medi- cal and public health services, both for the dura- tion and the following period of reconstruction. Doctors are urgently needed to care for our armed forces, industry, and civilians; and on Minnesota, the only complete medical school between the University of Wisconsin and the Pacific Northwest, has fallen the burden of supplying doctors for the large inland part of our country. Medical curriculum in wartime stresses first aid, public health, the prevention of venereal diseases, dermatology, internal medicine, aviation medicine, tropic and military medicine; all except the last two are thoroughly covered here at Minnesota. The program in our medical school has been re- vamped to aid the war effort — summer vacations have been eliminated, comprehensive exams have been discontinued, clinical clerkships have been re- quired in the junior as well as the senior year, the army and navy have commissioned students on an in- active basis, providing that they go into service at the end of their training here. Thus on the medical school has fallen a large responsibility in winning the war. i Dr. AHhur Hcnrici workinq to change starch to sugar for an experiment in the production of industrial alcohol. Dr. Wallace Armstrong of the department of physiological chemistry working to accelerate the healing of fractures. Drs. Maurice Visscher and Karl Sollncr who have perfected the process for distillation of sea water by body heat. 21

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Wartime Research William G. Clark — doing experiments of great current value on extending the use of the sulfa drugs, and en the treatment of gas gangrene and the treatment of burns. expected frequencies of the traits within the family and in the general population, the variations in the manifestations of the traits, and the genetic interpreta- tions of family histories. Because there is a shortage of quinine and because many of the men in the armed forces serve in the tropics where malaria is prevalent, Dr. Raymond Bieter, a professor of pharmacology, is working on substitutes for quinine in the prevention of malaria. Dr. Elexious T. Bell, head of the pathology depart- ment, completed a monograph on the diseases of the kidney. Austin Dowell — his plans and rerouting of overlapping rural dairy routes is saving pounds of rubber formerly lost from farmers ' tires. Dr. Elexious T. Bell, head of the pathology depart- ment who this year completed a monograph on the diseases of the kidney. James Winter specializes in the study of food preservation — specifically, preserving vegetables by freezing.