Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950) [PAGE 25]

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Progress in Teaching and Research

The last four years haw si o intern r views of teaching and <

research in all areas of the University. T h e comprehensive divisions

of academic activity are: (I) The physical sciences and technology. (2) The life scien< i s, agriculture, and h alth. (3) The social sciences, educati n, and law. (4) The humanities and the fine arts. In each of these great areas there has bi n extra rdinary progress; this we owe to staff members who are highly competent in their chosen fields. Some of these men have been at Illinois for a long time; others have come here within the last four y a \. To an already distinguished faculty wc have been able to add nationally known < perts in many fields — for example, in the geneti i of corn and of cattle, in mathematics, statistics and machine calculation, in architectural d( ign, in physics, chemistry, physiol< and log\ in clinical and educational psychology, in the practi< and philosophy of education, in economics and busim s manaj ment, in insurance, international finance, and labor relations, in dramatic production and staging, in the theory and practi< e of communis ition, in veterinary pathology, in food technology, in medi< 1 chemistry, in musical composition, in Latin-American culture — to name

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Physical Science and Technology

T H E BIO JiliTATRON

On February 24, 1950, I received a dramatic announ meat from Prol isor Donald W. Kerst, the inventor of th I tatron, as follows:

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