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Show U. of U. Starts New School 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 an-nounced this week by A. Ray Ol-pin, Ol-pin, president. The school is being established through a division di-vision 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. Dean A. LeRoy Taylor, present pres-ent dean of mines and engineering, engineer-ing, will continue as dean of the school of engineernig, President Presi-dent Olpin said. This division was necessitated by the great development in engineering en-gineering fields and mineral industries in-dustries during the war as well as by the unprecedented number num-ber of returning GIs entering mining and engineering. The new school will include mining, metallurgy, minerology and allied al-lied subjects, as well as the sciences sci-ences of geology, geography, ceramic and meterology. Dr. Christensen comes to the I University of Utah from the ' Bell Telephone laboratories in Summit, N. J., where he was m , charge of metallurgical research. ' |