Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 238]

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124. Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, $750 to the Department of Horticulture for a study of antibiotics. 125. Midwest Barley Improvement Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, $200 to the Department of Agronomy for barley variety fertilizer tests at Woodstock. 126. Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri, $1,250 to the Department of Agronomy for a study of herbicides. 127. Motorola, Incorporated, Chicago: a. $1,300 to the Department of Physics for research on insulators. b. $4,000 to the Department of Electrical Engineering for research on transistors. c. $3,950 to the Department of Electrical Engineering for research on microwave transmission. 128. National Livestock and Meat Board: a. $4,650 to the Department of Physiology for a study of the effects of a sustained diet of meat for one year on nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium metabolism. b. $4,000 to the Department of Food Technology for a study of biological utilization of fatty acid isomers. 129. National Oak Wilt Research Committee, $3,500 to the State Natural History Survey for research on oak wilt disease. 130. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., in support of the following research: a. $12,000 for research on photo production of pi-mesons, under the direction of Professor Donald W. Kerst, Department of Physics (G456). b. $1,867.34 for an investigation of the pyridinopyrimidines, under the direction of Dr. Edward C. Taylor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (G465). c. $7,000 for a conference on solid state physics in engineering education, under the direction of Dr. Frederick Seitz (G696). d. $11,800 for research on adsorption processes at electrode surfaces, under the direction of Professor Herbert A. Laitinen, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (G750). e. $5,500 for research on isolation and characterization of plant viruses, under the direction of Professor Lindsay M. Black, Department of Botany (G953). f. $6,200 for research on mappings from spheres to Euclidean spaces, under the direction of Dr. Chung-Tao Yang, Department of Mathematics (G1125). g. $8,600 for research on inelastic behavior of columns, under the direction of Professors Marlyn E. Clark and Omar M. Sidebottom, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (G1200). h. $14,500 for research on the analytical program for digital computer, under the direction of Professor Abraham H. T a u b (G1221). i. $3,400 for research on transference numbers of salts in nonaqueous solvents, under the direction of Professor B. Roger Ray, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (G1329). 131. National Stock Yard Company of St. Louis, $1,250 to the Department of Agricultural Economics for studies on the marketing of hogs on a live quality basis. 132. National Vitamin Foundation, Inc., New York City, $7,222.80 to the Department of Animal Science for research on radioactive Vitamin A ($2,272.80) and for a study on the role of Vitamin B12 in animal nutrition ($4,950). 133. Niagara Chemical Division of the Food Machinery and Chemical Company, $1,300 to the Department of Horticulture for research on the chemical thinning of fruits. 134- Northern Illinois Breeding Cooperative, $5,139.55 to the Department of Dairy Science for research. 135. Pfister Associate Growers, Inc., Aurora, $50 to the College of Veterinary Medicine for research. 136. Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, $5,000 to the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for investigations of the lipides of wheat.