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Show Grants to New Field Reviewed Dr. Joseph Speisman, of the National Nat-ional Institute of Mental Health, visited the Psychology Department last week to review a renewal request re-quest for a grant of approximately $15,000 to further research in Architectural Psychology. Approval by the Institutes Reviewing Re-viewing Committee, Washington, D. C. is based on whether the University Uni-versity has the facilities and staff to carry but the program. THE GRANT would continue to support fellowships for graduate students in Architectual Psychology Psychol-ogy at the University of Utah. Dr. Paul B. Porter, associate professor pro-fessor and head of the Psychology Department, said that Architectural Psychology is a new field with only "two or three" other participating partici-pating universities. He said that people are affected by their immediate immed-iate enviroment, including their arrhitart1ra pnviroment. The object of the program is to train people to do research on how architectural enviroment affects people, Dr. Porter said. He also said that there has "never been any real research on which to base architectural design decisions." Because of limited research, however, how-ever, Dr. Porter said it "may be of great importance or of little importance." 'Some graduate students studying this field at the University graduated grad-uated in psychology and others in architecture. |