Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1965 [PAGE 20]

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™ * d in 1907, though the University had been *g I com nee l8 7 4. Graduate faculty composed of d members of j ill i of the various college . Associated with the aduat College are the ( • for Advanced Study and a number of research and clu st 8 &* ne Department of Computer Science, Radiocarbon Laboratory fty: «al Envirorm Unit p Commit! on Natural Areas, Survey Research Laboratory, C ber for International Comparative Studies, and Water Resources Center. Acting dea: rt E. Cari . Graduate College Division at the Medical Center, Chicago, is under Milan V. Novak, associate dean. CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY was established in 1959 as a special unit of the Graduate College to encourage creative achievement and scholarship by providing •ecognitic:: to scholars and incentives for highest level of scholarly achievement. Members are Prof. John Bardeen, electrical engineering and physics; Prof. Joseph L. Doob, mathematics; Prof. Harry G. Drickamer, chemistry and chemical engineering; Prof. Sol Speigelman, microbiology; Prof. Julian H. Steward, anthropology; Prof. Alexander Turyn, classics. Associate members during 1964-65 are Prof. Alfredo Aug, civil engineerir. ; Prof. Arthur E. Barker, English; Prof. Margaret Chandler, sociology; Prof. Evelyn Frank, mathematics; Prof. Georgiana Jagiello, medicine; Prof. J. Robert Kelly, music; Prof. David Lasarus, physics; Prof. Lee A. Rub el, mathematics; Prof. Sundaram Seshu, electrical engineering; Prof. Michio Suzuki, mathematics; Prof. Nelson Wax, electrical engineering. :3PARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE "was established in 1949 to carry out research and teaching in design of high-speed computers and components, research and teaching in numerical analysis and programming associated with use of a high-speed digital computer, and provide computer facilities to be used as research tools by abers of the University. Facilities include an IBM 7094-14D1 computer system and ILliac II, a very high speed computer designed and built by the laboratory. Head of computer laboratory is Prof. John R. Pasta. LIBRARY of the University contains more books and materials than that of any other state university, is third among all American universities (exceeded by Harvard and Yale), fifth among all American libraries. Collections, June 30, 1964, total 15,111,930 items. Included are 3,747,871 volumes, also pamphlets, prints, films, microtexts, manuscripts, music scores, maps, aerial photographs, broadsides, and sound recordings. In main and departmental libraries at Urbana-Champaign, ^778,557 items; Medical Center, Chicago, 159,789; Chicago Undergraduate Division, 173,584. Robert B. Downs is dean of library administration. Librarian at Medical Center is Wilma Troxel, at Undergraduate Division, Frazer G. Poole. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE started in 1893 at Armour Institute, Chicago; was first library school west of Alleghenies; became a part of University in 1897. Director is Herbert Goldhor. jAjjg ADDAf'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, begun in program accredited by the Council on Social Urbana and Chicago campuses. Director is Mark P. Hal offers a Masters Education on both the M

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