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Page 10 The University is internationally known for its research, RESEARCH results of which pay definite returns worth millions of dollars annually to the state and nation* Directly traceable cash returns more than repay/ every year, the entire cost of creating the University and of operating it since it opened in 1868* Many research projects are financed by groups or organizations which provide funds while the University provides staff and supervision and publishes the results for the benefit of the public• For a list of all the research units in the University, see page 3? for "firsts" at Illinois, page 18. Outstanding work has been done in agriculture, engineering, chemistry, medicine, and many other fields. Purpose of this unit of the College ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION of' Engineering is to carry on research""" . *u : " ,"; ' * " ~~ to aid the manufacturing, mining, railway, engineering, and other industrial interests of the state, and through them the consuming public. The oldest continuing projects deal with warm air furnaces, solubility studies of boiler waters, lead sheath materials, heating and ventilation, and railway rails* In 1949-50 this station is conducting nearly 70 projects totaling more than $2,000,000. Nine-tenths of this sum was furnished by cooperating and sponsoring agencies, and one-tenth by the University* Since its establishment in 1903 the station has published nearly 450 Bulletins and Circulars, and 45 reprints of articles by staff members which originally appeared in technical journals* A list of station publications can be obtained from Room 106, Engineering Hall, Urbana. Station director is W* L- Everitt* Much of the research program of the AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine is organized under this station* A wide variety of experiments are carried on both on the campus and at experimental farms located throughout the state* Results are published in bulletins and distributed free of charge* Inquire Information Office, College of Agriculture, 113 Mumford Hall, Urbana, Station Director is Henry P. Rusk. This service is carried on AGRICULTURAL AND HOME ECONOMICS EXTENSION with, federal funds and is *~ ~~~" ' " " separate from the Division of University Extension (See below*). The service has extension specialists and supervisors in agriculture, home economics, and 4-H club work who maintain contact with 99 farm advisors serving all of the state*s 102 counties, and with 90 home advisors serving 95 counties* Director is Henry P. Rusk* Division of University Extension carries on: EXTENSION Correspondence Courses, providing 107 college-level courses for Univer"s 1'ty credit and 2 non-credit courses? Extra-mural Courses, both college-credit, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and non-credit; Visual Aids Service, providing 800 school systems with educational films from a library of more than 2,000 subjects, and with disk recordings; Speakers1 Bureau providing speakers from the University staff for off-campus programs of schools, civic organizations, and other groups; Short courses, Conferences, Institutes, and Workshops, tooth on and off the campus, conducted in cooperation with other departments of the University* Dean of the Division is Robert S* Browne

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