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Show U. ESTABLISHES NEWJCHOOL Establishment of a School of Mineral Industries at the University Uni-versity of Utah and appointment of Dr. Carl J. Christensen to head the new school, was announced by A. Ray Olpin, president. The school is being established thru a division of the present School of Mines and Engineering. Dean A. LeRoy Taylor, present pres-ent dean of Mines and Engineering, Engineer-ing, will continue as Dean of the School of Engineering, President Olpin said. This division .was necessitated by the great development in engineering en-gineering fields and mineral industries in-dustries during the war, as well1 as by the unprecedented number of returning GI's entering mining and engineering. The new school will include mining, metallurgy, minerology and allied subjects, as well as the sciences of geology, geography, ceramics and meter-ology. meter-ology. Dr. Christensen comes to the University of Utah from the Bell Telephone laboratories in Summit, Sum-mit, N.J., where he was in charge of metallurgical research. He formerly was in charge of ceramics cer-amics research at the Bell laboratories- He received his B. S. degree de-gree from BYU in 1923, M. S. from the University of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin in 1925, and Ph. D. from the University of California in 1929, where he held a Goewey fellowship. fellow-ship. For two years he was on j the teaching staff of BYU. He; is a member of the American Chemical society and the Aineri-: can Physical society. s |