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

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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

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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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41 Poster display features Arlen Asher's Quintet performs on HConcert in Stereo. - 3 The University of New Mexico and the Ale buquerque Public Schools joint educational television station first went onethe-air May 1, 1958, uin service to further malfs right to knowledge. Since that date, many advancements have been made to increase the statiOIfS power to reach almost all parts of the state. New studio cameras, a redesigned control room, a Video Credit course in ttllumanitics is conducted by Dr. H. G. Alexander. George Fishbcck explains Operation Gyroscope, science series. 12