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Show Awards Aid Instructors In Teaching The University of Utah has been awarded a National Science Foundation Foun-dation grant of $255,800 for continuation con-tinuation of its Academic Year Institute program. The grant, for the 1964-65 academic acad-emic year, was one of 61 grants totalling: $11,300,000 awarded to 57 colleges and universities throughout the nation. The Institute is designed to provide pro-vide additional training for high school teachers of science and mathematics so that they in turn may give their students adequate fundamental preparation for advanced ad-vanced study leading toward careers car-eers in the sciences, mathematics and thetechnological professions. DR. BOWEN C. Dees, associate director for scientific personnel of the 'NSF, said the major key to the good effect the Institutes have had, lies in the opportunity they provide pro-vide the teachers of becoming fully involved for an entire year with new materials of his field of sci- ence. DR. THOMAS J. Parmley, professor pro-fessor of physics and director of the Academic Year Institute, said a total of 291 teachers, not including includ-ing 45 enrolled in he current academic acad-emic year, have participated in the Institute at the U. Of them, he added, add-ed, 200 have been awarded masters degrees, most of them the Master of Science Education degree. Academic Year Institute studies at the U, he said, include work in the biological sciences, chemistry, physics and mathematics. |