University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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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

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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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GLASS TECHNOLOGY In line with the development of Toledo as one of the world's great glass centers, the University has established a graduate study program in the field of glass research. The program began in the fall of 1947 as an undergraduate option in glass technology in the field of general engineering. Two classes! were graduated from this program prior to its discontinua- tion in .lune 1950. The present graduate program was inaugurated in Sep- temper 1950 and has attracted students from different regions in this country as Well as from other countries. Students in the program last year included one from China and one from India. Both men intended to return to their own countries after graduation. The graduate program is administered jointly by full- time University faculty members and specialists from the Toledo glass firms. It comprises a detailed study of glass technology, glass manufacture and a number of related scientific and technological subjects. The Glass Technology program is under the direction of Walter V. Burg, professor of chemical engineering.