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Show U. Sets Deadline For Science Grants Mathematics and science teachers teach-ers will have until Jan. 15 to complete applications for the 50 one-year study grants offered by the 1959-60 Academic Year Institute In-stitute at the University of Utah. The deadlines for the 1959-60 institutes at 32 participating schools was set at a meeting of the institute directors in Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. National Science Foundation, sponsor of the program, will send bulletins to 100,000 high school and junior high school teachers Nov. 15 inviting their applications for the grants, Dr. T. J. Parmley said upon his return re-turn from the Washington conference. con-ference. University of Utah will send its own announcement on the program to more than 3,000 teachers Dec. 1. National Science Foundation will extend the 1959-60 program to 32 campuses including three additional schools in the eleven western states. University of New Mexico, Arizona State College Col-lege at Tempe and San Diego State College next year will join the University of Utah, Oregon State College and the University of Colorado, which have been the western participants in the program since its inception on 16 U.S. campuses two years ago. For next year's program, the University of Utah has received a $300,000 grant which will enable en-able the school to expand its institute in-stitute into four quarters. Grants in the past two years have covered cov-ered educational costs and living liv-ing allowances for the successful applicants for three quarters. I |