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Westinghouse Scholarship TV inner s Announced

Top finalists in the Science Talent Search sponsored by the Westinghouse Kducational Foundation, which is main­tained by the Westinghouse Electric Corp. and conducted by Science Service through Science Clubs of America, were Martin Karplus of West Newton, Mass., and Vera Radoslava Demerec, of Cold Spring Harbor, X. Y. Karplus plans to enter Harvard, major in biology, and then de­vote his life to medical research, and Miss Demerec plans to enter Swart h more to study zoology, then make a career of mu­seum work.

A banquet closed the five-day Science Talent Institute in Washington on March 4. Watson Davis, director of Science Serv­ice, presided, and the awards were made by Harlow Shapley, director of the Har­vard College Observatory and chairman of the board of judges in the search. Gwilym A. Price, president of Westinghouse, spoke to the gathering, and Vannevar Bush, pre­sident of Carnegie Institution of Washing­ton, gave an address on "The Scientific Way" .

The 40 finalists in the search were se­lected from 3,200 competing high school seniors in public, private, and denomina­tional schools throughout the nation. Each wrote a 1,000-word essay on "My Scientific Project" and completed a dif­ficult science aptitude examination. Three hundred were selected as outstanding, 40 were designated finalists to compete for the scholarships, and 260 were awarded honorable mention citations, and their science potential called to the attention of scholarship-granting colleges and univer­sities.

Eight of the 40 finalists were awarded $400 four-year scholarships, and two of these were named alternates for the Grand Science Scholarships. They are Herman Hieber, Brooklyn, Ν. Υ.; Paul LeRoy Cloke, Orono, Maine; Jerome Martin Eisenberg, Philadelphia; Gary Felsenfeld, New York, X. Y.; Milton Paul Gordon, St. Paul, Minn, (alternate for the Grand Science Scholarship); William Lee Mc-Leish, Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio; Irene Elizabeth Nagy, Bridgeport, Conn, (girl alternate) ; Norman Harkey Smith, Ur-bana, 111. Thirty more were awarded one-year, S100 scholarships, with three al­ternates.

Atom Center Speeded

Plans for the location in Dupage County, 111., of new permanent facilities of the Argonne National Laboratory for

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Research and Development in the field of atomic energy have been announced. The new site, eventually to include 3,645 acres, is about 26 miles southwest of the center of Chicago. Construction on and im­mediate occupation of 450 acres are planned as soon as weather permits. Twenty-five academic and research insti­tutions in the midwest cooperate in the laboratory's program.

Countering th<e Antivivisectiionists

The Humane Society of Columbus has announced that it will cooperate with Ohio State University, Western Reserve University, and the University of Cincin­nati in a statewide positive educational program. The program is designed to propagate understanding and appreciation of the methods of medical research, chiefly the matter of vivisection, and will utilize press, radio, and organized groups. Repre­sentatives of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University met recently to prepare a joint effort, against any anti-vivisection bills which, might be presented at the 1947 meeting of the Wisconsin Legislature. The department of physi­ology at Vassar College is preparing an ex­hibit on animal experimentation and the antivivisection cult.

P&G Fellowship A junior research fellowship in the

department of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh has recently been established by the Procter and Gamble Co. Its purpose is to provide a graduate student majoring in chemistry the oppor­tunity to carry out fundamental studies in the chemistry of fats. James Benedict, of Long Island, Ν. Y~., who was awarded the fellowship Feb. 1, obtained his B.S. degree at Xew York University in 1944.

Brooklyn Symposia The Institute of Polymer Research at

the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn an­nounces an all-day symposium on ''Ad­vances in Physical and Organic Chemistry of Cellulose" on Mar. 29. This is the sixth of a series of nine on ''Recent Progress in the Field of High Polymers". The sev­enth, to be held April 19, is entitled "Mechanism of Polymerization". Speak­ers will include Eugene Pacsu, Princeton; H. J. Phillipp, Celamese Corp.; E. W. Roseveare, Du Pont Co. ; W. H. Melville, University of Aberdeen, Scotland; W. B. Reynolds, Phillips Petroleum Co.; M. G, Evans, University of Leeds, England; G. Goldfinger, University of Buffalo; and A. G. Evans, "University of Manchester, England.

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