| Show I Last Twenty Years Sees Growth Of U Research I By KATHY ARENTZ Chronicle Staff Writer The growth and development of research at the University is a big success story and it is a continuing Contract research projects i noW furnish approximately one third of the University Twenty years ago the amount awarded was only but this year's estimate approaches eight million Now the University has reached a saturation point in that there is a lack of labora tory This is the main to accepting even more BUILDING funds of over one million dollars have recently been approved by government agencies for new research These funds will be used to house the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Almost two million dollars have been awarded for movable equipment in the new Medical Of all the Public Health Service grants total 50 per cent of the money and over 50 per cent of the There are over grants made by this THE OFFICE of Cooperative the coordinator of U was brought into being as the program grew from thousands to millions of dollars worth of Elmo P. now Business Vice President for the University of was the first He was succeeded in 1954 by Carl J. former Dean of the College of Mines and Mineral The office maintains a full-time lawyer to deal with the legal aspects of the contracts and CHRISTENSEN is a veteran He was associated with Philo Farnsworth in the pioneer work of He spent seventeen years at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he was connected with the development of many innovations in the expanding field of electronic components and early work on Christensen's present position includes the administration of all funds which come to the University by way of grants-in-aid for research and training research building and equipment graduate fellowships and The U Graduate School has risen with and is very dependent upon contract Research has permeated practically every branch of academic It has given new force and meaning to the learning new usefulness of university activities to public national and community |
