University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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DR. A. SOLBERG RESEARCH The Research Foundation has shown great development in the five years of its existence. A corporation within the University which administers research projects, its objects are to encourage research among faculty and advanced students of the University. Funds for the support of the research are obtained from government agencies, trade associations, industries. foundations and private individ- uals. The research facilities are used by the University for teaching purposes too. During the past year the Foundation maintained the electron microscope, used extensively in teaching and in research. The Air Force-owned laboratories for aeronau- tical research are being used for confidential work for the Air Force. Construction of a 320,000 climatometer in the engineering college for research on building materials, especially in the field of cement products, has been com- pleted. The development of an extensive research pro- gram in building materials is underway. Research has begun on the synthesis of minerals. In the physics department. defense research is continuing in the field of the atom. The Foundation has served approxi- mately a hundred small industries of the Toledo area in the solution of their research problems. The Foundation was accepted into membership in the Engineering College Research Council last year.

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DR. PAUL W. STANSBURY Dr. Paul W. Stansbury, director of graduate study, is a native of Philadelphia. He received the B.S. degree from Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Conn., the A.M. degree from Ohio State University and the Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Before coming to the University of Toledo in 1927, Dr. Stansbury taught in a high school in Pippapass, Ky., at Pikeville College and Eastern Illinois State Teachers College. In 1930 he was appointed director of graduate study here and in 1945 was made head of the psychology department. GRADUATE STUDY The Graduate Division was organized in 1912 upon recom- mendation of the Board of Directors. ln June, 1913, the de- gree of master of arts was first conferred. As the increased need for graduate programs became more evident, the faculty has provided more facilities for advancement work, aca- demically sound and professionally practical, in a wide variety of fields. The Division does not strive for a large enrollment, but for a select group of well-qualified students for individual attention. There are now eighteen fields of graduate study which lead to master7s degrees: accounting, biology, chemistry, com- merce, economics, education Celementary, secondary, voca- tionalj, English, finance, foreign language, glass technology, history, management Cindustrial and personnelb, marketing, mathematics, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology. Work on a graduate level gives the student specialization in a field of knowledge beyond the limits of the undergraduate major. The student gains a maturity in thought and attitude in his field and has a command of his field that will be evident in increased eHiciency in the professional and cultural life of the individual.

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E ENING SESSIO MR. BRENTON W. STEVENSON Evening classes at the University of Toledo were among the first classes established. During the last seventy-five years, fifty thousand Toledoans are estimated to have taken courses in the University Evening Sessions. Until 1921, there were more evening students than day students. Work offered in Evening Sessions is of regular University calibre and is fully accredited. A degree may be earned by evening study alone in Law, Business Administration, Engineering or Arts and Sciences. About ten per cent of the Evening Session students already have college degrees and about half of these are working for a second degreeg other students take classes because of some interest or value the work has for them aside from a degree. Evening students attend many of the University social and athletic functions. They are mailed the Campus Col- legian, student newspaper, weekly. Mr. Brenton W. Stevenson, Director of Evening Sessions, is a friendly, thorough and understanding adviser, as Well as a good administrator. He also edits the University bulletins. Mr. Stevenson is capably assisted in both jobs by Robert J. Burns, Jr., Assistant Director of Evening Sessions. Left to right-Hancock, L., Stipp, P., Stevenson, B. W., Burns, R. J., Jr. 26