College and university research in physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067727
The impact of the current national defense effort on scientific education has been the subject of wide concern in colleges and universities. An important part of this problem—and one which especially concerns physicists—is the colleges’ growing participation in research.
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1. Members of the Committee, in addition to Dean Spilhaus, are Dr. A. P Colburn, University of Delaware; Dean W. L. Everitt, University of Illinios; Professor F. B. Farquharson, University of Washington Dr. C. W. Good, University of Michigan: Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, Northwestern University: President J. R. Van Pelt, Montana School of Mines; and Dean Eric A. Walker Pennsylvania State Collage. Dr. Gerald A. Rosselot, Georgia Institute of Technology is chairman of the council.
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3. Copies of this full report, entitled University Research Potential, are available from the Secretary of the Engineering College Research Council at Room 7‐204, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts, at $1.00 each.
4. The eight are University of Michigan, New York University, Yale University, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State College, and University of Texas.
5. They are the University of Michigan, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State College, and University of Florida.
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John I. Mattill, Engineering College Research Council of the American Society for Engineering Education.
