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Caption: Booklet - War Program at the UI (1942)
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15 Wmr P >gram of the Librarv. Dr. Carl M. White, is a member of the W a r t i m e Committee on Information and Education of the American Library Association. RESEARCH Research work bearing on the war p r o g r a m by members of the staff is so varied and extensive that no complete statement on it can be criven here. Also, much of this work is of a confidential nature and cannot therefore be reported. It seems fitting, however, to describe a few of these activities to give some indication of their trend and scope. Dr. Roger Adams, Head of the D e p a r t m e n t of Chemistry, is Chairman of Division B (Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) of the National Defense Research Committee. I n cooperation with more than 25 other members of his D e p a r t m e n t he is working on extremely important Government research related to the war. Professor F. W . Loomis. Head of the D e p a r t m e n t of Physics, and six of his colleagues are on leave of absence to carry on a p r o g r a m r of investigation related to naval affairs. T h e results of these tw o programs are already beginning to appear on the battle front in all parts of the world. The College of Agriculture is doing intensified work on those sections of its regular research p r o g r a m which give most promise of elding results in time to be used effectively in the present emergency. Research in human and animal nutrition has been greatly extended, particularly with respect to food preparation and to substitutes for foods and feeds which are likelv to be scarce during the war. Research in the breeding of new crops, especially vegetable crops and high oil bearing seeds, in animal hygiene and preventive medicine, in plant diseases and insect pests is being vigorously prosecuted. Recently a member of the staff of the Botany Department has been in Mexico studying plants which have rubber content in preparation for research in plants which may be developed to produce rubber. Investigations in the College of Engineering are yielding results which are of great value to the defense program, as. for example, the determination of stresses on airplane parts by the use
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