Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1955 [PAGE 49]

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Ttie University ia inter itionally known t l r jea f AR r whi pay I finite r I irns worth mllllonn fl annuall to tl tate and nation, rirectly t icea-le :rns repa very year, th entlr cost of creating t a: or operating it sin it open 1 in 1868. M ny res * eta are final by groups or r>rg nleatlons which pi le f t - Uni h. y POVldtfl staff and supervision and publishes th It r the benefit of the public. For a list of all the I h Ln the University,see page 3; for "firsts" at Illinois, page 18. iing work has been done in agriculture, engineering, chemist y, icine. and many ^ther fields. Purpose of this unit of the College of ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT ::TATI^.: nc ring is to carry on research to ? 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 19^8-49 this station is conducting nearly 70 projects totaling almost $2,000,000. Seven-eighths of this sum v furnished by cooperating and sponsoring agencies, and one-eighth the University. Since its establishment in 1903 the station has pi lished nearly 450 Bulletins and Circulars, and more than 40 reprint3 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 till Sept. 1, 1949,is M. L. Enger, then W. L. Everitt.

Much of the research program of the AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIC:,' 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.). T l service has extension specialists and supervisors in agriculture, he 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. T Division of University Extension carries on: CorresEXTENSION ccr.dence Courses, providing 107 college-level courses for University credit and 2 non-credit courses; Extra-mural Courses, be llege-credit, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and non-credit; ~{i^ *1 Aids Service, providing 800 school systems with education: f:im3 from a library of more than 2,000 subjects, and with disk r > i Speakers' Bureau providing speakers from the University st fr-cam i programs of schools, civic organizations, and r >' J Short courses, Conferences, Institutes, and Workshops, both on ; "the campus, conducted in cooperation with other department nlverslty; and supervises Cooperative Extension Cen >ra \ 3ity f hman courses In the facilities of 9 h : schools of t h I in of th< division le Robert R. Browne.