Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 1373]

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69. Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, $2,250 for research by the Agricultural Experiment Station on the application of electricity to field operations. 70. The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York: a. $9,150 for a study of the problems of training personnel for popular writing on the humanities in the media of mass communication to be conducted by Dean Wilbur Schramm of the Division of Communications. b. $40,000 to the Department of Entomology for research. 71. Tennessee Corporation Research Laboratories, $400 to the Department of Horticulture for the development of fungicides. 72. United Engineering Trustees, Inc.: a. $6,384.25 for research on riveted and bolted structural joints, conducted in the Engineering Experiment Station in cooperation with the Research Council on Riveted and Bolted Structural Joints. b. $600 contribution to the cost of publishing Bulletin No. 399, presenting the results of an investigation on reinforced concrete columns. 73. United States Public Health Service: a. $13,228 for a quantitative comparison of two types of psychotherapy, in the Department of Psychology, under the supervision of Professor O. Hobart Mowrer, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (M-422R). b. $8,977 to determine the nitrification phase of the biochemical oxygen demand test, in the State Water Survey Division and Department of Chemistry, under the supervision of Professor Arthur M. Buswell, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (RG-2141—C2). c. $10,800 for a study of the nature, cause, and control of housefly resistance to insecticides, in the Department of Entomology, under the supervision of Professor G. C. Decker, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (RG-2623—C). d. $14,519 for training in clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, under the supervision of Professor Lawrence O'Kelly, for one year beginning July 1, 1951 (2M-5089—C4). e. $4,924 to determine factors affecting the concentration of free amino acids in animal tissues, in the Department of Chemistry, under the supervision of Dr. L. M. Henderson, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (RG-2674—C). f. $9,646 for studies of the inositol lipids of plant and animal tissues, in the Department of Chemistry, under the supervision of Professor H. E. Carter, for one year beginning September 16, 10,51 (RG-2031—C2). g. $7,560 to determine the basic nutrition of virulent insects, in the Department of Entomology, under the supervision of Professor Gottfried S. Fraenkel, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (RG-2075—C). h. $6,190 to determine the effect of high temperatures on the inactivation of enzymes and on the destruction of microorganisms and some of the physicalchemical properties of milk and cream, in the Department of Food Technology, under the supervision of Professor Paul H. Tracy, for one year beginning July 1, 1951 (RG-1047—C). i. $28,910 for a preschool project for young mentally handicapped children, under the supervision of Professor Samuel A. Kirk, College of Education, for one year beginning October 1, 1951 (MH-274—C). j . $34,909 to indicate empirically promising psychological instruments and designs for screening out persons in need of clinical or hospital care, under the supervision of Professor L. L. McQuitty, Department of Psychology, for one year beginning July 1, 1951 (MHS-17—C). k. $15,500 for the extension of personality structure investigation, in terras of objective test factor measures, to children, under the supervision of Professor Raymond B. Cattell, Department of Psychology, for one year beginning September 1, 1951 (MH-80C3). 1. $8,000 to discover the relations between mental health and the social structure of the work situation, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Dubin, Department of Sociology, for one year beginning February 1, 1952 (M-484). m. $6,255 to determine the characteristics of development sites of flood water mosquitoes in order to obtain information that will provide a rational basis for abatement procedures, under the supervision of _ Professor William B. Horsfall, Department of Entomology, for one year beginning February I, 1952 (G-3356).