Show Page 2 The Utah Statesman MondavOctobeS USU Extension Services recognition gain national been recognized nationally has Services for USU Extension ot to American culture Because helping Asian refugees'adjust tor states other from this tilev are receding countless requests help prorefuse hase Tuvet Seethaler coordinator of USU extension f applications lor USU s hundreds sass grams had to stop been pouring in from all over the country she ans longer couldn’t we up keep because filling icquests ‘i i "e notes o a Seethaler savs the are now sending eath state packet coordinate them has then and mg all the USU publications fill the orders and their orders The university will be able to and postage cost sell them at minimum printing these extension materials is that The unique thing about and letnamese L tah State Laotian they are translated into r subjects also has a good variety of materials on sought-aftecare and child like home management hxid and nutrition monev management "Manv ot the refugees hase to stan from scratch when they mose here They need to learn simple things such as how to Seethaler sass clean their apartments and use banks Leroy Franke retugee programs coordinator at the Ltah Social Services ottice sass Ltah was processing about 500 refugees per month but now onls 130 per month factors that draw the Franke believes there are push-puL refugees to the mted States condi“They come because they are pushed out bv poor bv the the to US and prohomelands their tions in pulled mise ol something better If we want to decrease the influx of refugees we have to work on one or both of these factors Franke savs ll I Workmen ready a pallet containing eight experiments that the Space Shuttle Columbia during its third flight set for January 1982 will carry AP photo USU involved in Columbia flight by Mary Walker Nine undergraduate students from Utah State University are finishing research projects hich will be on the fourth space shuttle orbital These projects range from flight next summer biological response to the curing of molten metals all in zero gravitv This opportunity is made possible by a program which NASA calls the “Getaway Special ” This program is essentially the renting of space in the cargo bav of the shuttle to experimentors NASA will rent a five cubic foot canister with a weight limit of 200 pounds net to any independent investigator from anv country in the world lor any safe legitimate scientific experiment or observation When the program was first announced by NASA at the 27th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation Gilbert Moore of the Wasatch Division of Thiokol walked up on the stage before the NASA representative had finished speaking and wrote a check for the downpayment on the very first Getaway Special canister He then donated the canister to Utah State University for undergraduate student use In order to fill Getaway Special Number One talented undergraduate students with a particular interest in space had to be recruited and brought to USU This was accomplished n by offering four-yea- r scholarships part-tim- e jobs and stipends for purchasing parts to high school seniors in Utah Three entering freshmen were selected each year on the basis of personal interviews research proposals and scholastic records Of the students chosen four are engineering majors two are physics majors and the remain-in- g three are in biology geology and mathematics Two of the students are women Amber Dailey and Kelly Hunt Most are juniors with one senior and one sophomore Jim Elwell one of the chosen students who graduated in 1981 is conducting an experiment to study the behavior of liquid metallic meniscuses in microgravity Elwell also designed and built the compact microprocessor com the eputer which will actuate and control all the data record and xperiments Dailey will cure two epoxy resin composite samples in zero gravity and compare them with the same type of composites cured on earth Hunt will observe the root growth of duckweed in the absence of gTavity Her experiment will be photographed bv a 35mm Nikon camera and the weeds will be with a killed and preserved before fluid injection into the growth chamber Steven Walker came to L’SU from El Paso Texas particularly to participate in the proexgram He had been interested in space a sent and school perimentation in high NASA previous experiment piggyback on a consists sounding rocket Walker’s experiment in zero of a of studying the growth green algae gravity His data will be recorded by optical density readings and examination after flight His algae will also be killed and preserved before by a liquid injection system Chris Alford has designed his package to the shutt e perform soldering experiments while for is in orbit He wants to study the potential s t Sackctt Karl bubble forming in the metal of metal periment will also generate a sample while in orbit to study the hardening characteristics in zero gravity Terry Thomas has prepared an experiment which will met two common metals mix them and solidify the alloy in space a Russell Laher will measure heat transfer in study to wants He mixture of oil and water the transfer of heat in zero gravity Dan Adkins’ experiment will measure the turbidity of a suspension of colloidal particles in a hqui over time in the zero gravity of space Dave Yoel a graduate student in physics has been acting as the payload integrator mechanical designer fabricator of the inte support structure backup software specialist the computer control system and princip contact with NASA When Yoel entered the USU graduate program he requested a P° tion as adviser to the students involved put as time went on my part grew and grew ana (continued on page A oe |