University of New Mexico - Mirage Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT KEPT BUSY The various departments of the College of Engi- neering at U. N. M. are engaged in research projects totaling $630,739. A study of the return of radar waves from various types of terrain is being conducted by Dr. R. K. Moore of the Electrical Engineering depart- ment under the sponsorship of the U. S. Navy. Dr. Moore is also directing work on an electronic computer for high school use. In addition, Dri Moore is heading work on transistors and on two classified projects. Dr. Donald C. Thorn is directing a research project tworth $107,833l on the refraction of radar waves. This project is sponsored by the U. 5. Army Signal Missile Support Agency at thite Sands, New Mexico. Experiments with new materials for use in tran- sistors and reetihers are being made under the cli- reetion of Dr. XV. W. Granneinann. This work should produce valuable information about the electrical properties of crystals in comparison to currently used vacuum tubes. Dr. Cranneinann is also clireeting research on the Hall effect in semiconductor materials. The Mechanical Engineering department is en gaged in several different types of research work. They are studying objects subject to severe ine- ehanieal shocks; another important area of research concerns the thermal stresses developed in pipes of various thicknesses when subjected to rapid changes of temperature in the interior. This prob- lem is directly related to the design of nuclear power plants. Also under investigation is the pres. sure, recovery and shoek-wai'e interaction of super- sonie air flow. The department of Chemical Engineering is busy classifying New Mexico etude Oil, reducing oolitie iron ores with hydrogen, and determining the thermal properties and impregnation of porous materials with metals. The University has received a grant of 9647; from the Atomic Energy Commission for the procurement of nuclear equipment. This grant was one of the largest made by the ABC. 2 . . W . V V i l MANIAC I. Research associate Dale Sparks gathers data from MANIAC l at the University of New Mexico. Maniac I, now used in UNM research work, was the original computer used at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It will handle 600,000 addition or snbtraetions in one minute. In the same time it will make 87,000 multiplications or 63,000 divisions. Maniac I also can solve +0 simul- taneous equations with 40 unknowns in three and one half minutes. MANIAC: RESEARCH AID MANIAC, one of the original electronic eom- puters, was given to the University under the Ex- eess Equipment Program of the Department of Health, Education and TVelfare. MANIAC was designed and built at Los Alanios, New Mexico. It is now obsolete even though it operates at 10,000 mathematical operations a second. The computer was shipped to Albuquerque and labori- ously rebnilt by Dale Sparks and XVilliain TVhisler. ARGENTINE LITERATURE Dr. Marshall Nason, professor of Modern Lan- guages at U. N. bL, is presently studying Argen- tine literature in Buenos Aires. He is working under a six-nmnth grant from the Organization of American States. He will study the literature of the gaueho, the Argentine cowboy, in partiens lar. Dr. Nason will return to the Universiti' in time for the opening of the fall semester. - HEARTS KEPT ALIVE A glass blowerls delight, known as the Crai'er instrument, is keeping hearts alive outside the body for as long as eight hours. The instrument is used by Dr. Marvin H. Malone of the College of Pharmacy to test the effects of various drugs on the heart. Dr. Malone is working with the Univer- sity of XVashington in testing certain moulds and fungi. The hearts of such animals as rats, rabbits and guinea pigs are placed in a sealed Chamber in the instrument. A chemical compound, resembling blood, is then fed into the heart. The heart pumps the blood through an elaborate heating, sterilizing and oxygenating system. Drugs are gradually added and their eHeet on the heart rate, the power of the heart beat, and the amount of blood pumped CLASS BLOTVER'S DELIGHT. Dr. Marvin Malone, a pharmacologist at UNM'S are Oth' college of pharmacy. is shown by the Crater instrninentewhieh can keep a heart alive for eight hours after the body is dead. It is a tlglass blower's delight, Dr. Malone commented. 10 The instrument is the only one of its kind in the Rocky Mountain States. Most large ding pro- ducers use the machine to test their prodnets.

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COMPLEX MOLECULES ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS The Department of Education received in 1957 Fundamental research in the field of complex molecules is being done by graduate students in a threefear grant of 563,54; to do research on the department of Chemistry at UNM. tVith the aid of the department's newly acquired speetro- . . 1 1 . d , .' . . , , . . H the problems of zidlustment of Indian and non- gmp 1, tie stu cuts are getting valuable experlenee 1n instrumentation and data recording. lhe speev Indian in the public elementary sehoots Of New trograph program enables students to study the effects of metal ions on strengths and types of Mexico. chemical bonds that form with various metals. Molecules are analyzed while under stimulation Participating in H10 TCSCRTCll program, WhiCh is from high energy iiltraex'iolet light, or from photographs of the Visible light which they emit when SPOUSOer by the U' S' Department Of Health, excited. The spectrograph was imported from Germany about a year ago at a cost of $10,000. It was pur- chased by UNM, with the aid of a research grant. Dr. Glen A. Crosby is the graduate student adviser for the spectrograph pI'OgI'JHL CANCER CURE SOUGHT The Chemistry Department of U. N. M. is cur- rently engaged in seeking cancer inhibiting com- pounds. The project is headed by Dr. Raymond N. Castle. Working under him on the study are Dr. Kikuo Adaehi, Duane Aldous, and Aim Ger- hardt. This research is being sponsored by the National Cancer Institute of the National Insti- tute of Health. The work done at U. N. M. is exclusively syn- thesizing 0r isolating compounds from plant and animal sources of potential physiological activity. Screening and testing the effectiveness of the com- pounds is done elsewhere, mainly at the 1 Tational Cancer Institute. Research work is also being done on anti- spasmodies and tranquilizers, under the direction of Dr. Raymond Castle, Dr. Mzisziyuki Onda and Miss XVinifred Matthews are working 011 the pro- duction of compounds. They are being soponsored by Smith, Kline and French Laboratories of Philadelphia. Iustin Hammer is doing research on the isola- tion of natural products from Cuban plants. All of this work is being done in the new $45,000 medical Chemistry laboratory in the base ment of the Chemistry building. The laboratory is devoted exclusively to health-direeted research. ,u-u- CANCER CURE SOUCII'I'. tVorking iii the UNM medical cheme istry lab on a project to find a compound that could combat cancer are Dr. Kikuo Adachi and XVinifred Matthews. Dr. Raymond N. Castle, UNXI Professor of Chemistry Education, ziiid XVelfare, are seven public schools in New Mexico: Iemez, Dulce. Cuba, Seboyeta, Thoreau, Santo Domingo, and Bent-Mesealero, most of which have predominantly Indian enroll- ment. The project has four field studies now in prog- ress under the direction of Dri Miles V. Ziutz 0f the Department of Education. The four studies include the teaching of oral English in kinder garten, under the direction of LeRoy Candie; the teaching of third grade arithmetic, under the direction of Hitoshi Ikeda; elementary seie'lee C011- eepts and Cultural differences, under the direction of Carol Charles; and the teaching of reading in the fifth grade under the direction of Miles V. Zintz. Activities in the study include periodic testing of pupils to determine the success of suggested teaching methods, and observation of classes. A Elm library of 100 tihiistrips is provided by the study and each hhiistrip has circulated through the participating schools. 'l'he library is made up of both educational films for the upper grades and more elementary films, such as fairy tales, which Can be understood and discussed by ehildren of limited English vocabulary in the lower grades. Monthly workshops for collaborating teachers and field study directors were initiated in Septem- ber of 1959 at the University at which teaching methods and common problems were discussed. The speaker at the March workshop was Dr. Florence Schroeder of the University Home Eee- nomies department, who recently completed her doctoral dissertation on HPre-Sehool Child Rearing Practices in 3 Rio Grande Pueblo. Tentative test results have shown iiiiprm'ement in 811 areas being studied. Also working on the cancer research project is Duane Aldous.

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A;- LEF'I'AIIANDED RATS STUDIED. Inspecting curves obtained from a dcnsitometcr are U. to rj Dri George M. Peterson, clmm. 0f UNM psychology department, and Donald Gucka, a graduutc assistant. Thc machine is used in studying differences in the brain of right and lcft-hzmdcd rats. SOUTH PgUV RATS S'I'UDIED Tilc Air Force Office of Scientific Research has grantcd thc UNM Psychology department funds to study the differences in brains of right and lcft-handcd rats. The study is being conducted by Dr. George Peterson and Donald ClleCr. Dr. Henry Ellis is engaged in a study of human ability to learn through a process of stimulus gcneralization. By using an oscillograph, Dr. Ellis can study the reactions of persons to similar and dissimilar stimulus in the learning process. A Change in stimulus. wiicthcr simi- 1:1: or dissimilar, may cause confusion in learning. INTERNA'I'IONAL CLUB iForcign Stlidcntsii. Row 1 seated U. to IQ: Chaudhry Khurshid Ahmad, iV. Pakistan, treasurer; Sylvia Bussaba Examining oscillograph data on the reactions of persons to similar and dissimilar stimulus is Dr, Henry Ellis. assistant professor of psychol- ogy at UNXI. GOAL OF UNDERS'I'AXDING wl'hc world i5 not small. it is too big, Dr. Iorrin says. Every coun- try infiucnces thc world today, the small as well as the big. There are 8; foreign students from 38 different countries at the University, who are hero to gain a better understanding of the world. That understand- ing C0111CS through research; scientiEc research gives us knowledge of the physical world, thilosophical research gives us knowledge of human relationships. Wic nccd both to make this a better world. Shivapliong, 'lihailand; Melinda Meyer, United States, secretary; Muhammad Akbar, iV. Pakistan, program chairman; Annette Ewing, United States, assistant MIRROR editor; Robert Bicdcr, United States, entertainment chum, Rok 2: I Das. India, Speaker; Mating, Olin 'l'hwin, Burma; 'I'omonobu Kinoshita, Japan, MIRROR editor; Biswa Pradhan, Nepal; Kcam Dik, Cambodia; Yogendra Singh, Nepal; Sh. Ashgar Ali Schgal, XV. Pakistan, Student Senate alternate; Muhamnmd Salecm, iV. Pakistan; Sophami Im, Cambodia. Sponsors for the group were Prof. Richard Iquarski and Dr. Hugh Graham. 11