Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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CHEMISTRY T HE Department of Chemistry offers degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engi¬ neering. The impetus given to the science of chemistry during the war is now being felt by the colleges and universities of the United States in a greatly in¬ creased interest and enrollment. The demand for qualified chemists and chemical engineers is very great, especially in industrial and research laboratories, and the de¬ partment has not enough graduates to fill positions that are now open. This department is taking care of the increased enrollment in all courses and maintaining its high standards of work. Graduates are now scattered over many parts of the country and all are successful in their particular field. GEOLOGY I N the scientific world of today there is a great cry going out for the trained geologist. In the several different branches of the geological service there are many vacancies. On the U. S. Geological Survey during the last two years there has been a “turn over” of about seventeen per cent of the total force. This means that employees have left government service to go into more remunerative commercial geological service. Most of these men have gone into oil geology. The Department of Geology offers courses in General Geology, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrography, Economic, Topographical and Petroleum Geology. The Petroleum Geologist is rapidly coming to the front. New methods tending to conserve the supply of gas and oil are being adopted constantly. Recovery of gaso¬ line from natural gas by the absorption method, and recovery of oil from shales by distillation are fields that are as vet ’but little developed in this country.

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BOTANY A SURVEY just completed shows former students of the Botany De¬ partment filling positions as missionaries, government employees, sci¬ entific technicians, health officers, explorers, teachers and home¬ makers. From Washington State to Washington, D. C., they have left their marks in colleges, universities, experiment stations and scientific lab¬ oratories, and the trail of their progress leads to Africa, Hawaii, Siam and the Philippines. From the rooms of Science Hall they pass, and the world becomes their laboratory. T HE Department of Zoology offers major courses leading in three directions. First, where the work is a more general survey of va¬ rious animals the Department offers the degree of B. S. in Zoology. Second, where special attention is given to insects, the curriculum leads to a degree in Entomology. Third, an arrangement of courses combines the essentials of zoology and botany into the option of Economic Biology. Besides the training of teachers and investigators, this department largely serves the College in affording foundation science courses to stu¬ dents in departments of applied science and elsewhere. Its workshops are the laboratory and field. “Know thyself first,” is the laboratory motto; the field classes, “Study Nature before books.”