I/O Chemistry Department
Announces Grants
The following research grants have been announced by the chemistfy
department for the current year:
Robert B. Dean, assistant professor, appointed—Ph. D. 1938, Univer
sity of Cambridge (England). Previous experience: research associ
ate, Stanford University; assistant professor, University of Hawaii.
Research grant from National Institute of Health.
Dean is directing a research project supported by the Public
Health Service to study the behavior of anesthetic gases on surface
films. For some years one theory of anesthetic has held that these
materials act by being absorbed on nerve membranes. This study
will make use of special techniques developed by Dr. Dean and his
students to measure the absorption of vapors on surface films of
fatty materials and proteins.
Surface Films Studied
The University of Oregon is perhaps the only University in the coun
try where surface films are being actively studied. As a result student
assistants have been recruited from distant parts of the world to
work on this problem. The first one came from China and there are
r.ow two Englishmen working here who came from the laboratory
of N. K. Adam in Southampton. Professor Adam is considered to be
a world authority on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces.
In parrallel study Bradley T. Scheer will investigate the conduc
tance of nerve impulses in the presence of the same anesthetic vapors.
They hope that results on surface films and on nerve can be corre
lated leading a better understanding of the nature of anesthetic
and nerve conduction.
V. R. Gaertner, assistant professor, appointed 1949—Ph. D. 1949,
University of Illinois. Previous experience: post-doctoral fellow,
Ohio State University; research grant from Research Corporation.
New Tetracyclic Structure
Grant by Research Corporation: With the assistance of C. W.
"Xoung, a study entitled "Synthesis of Fused Strained Aromatic Hyro
carbons” is being made. The objective is the preparation of com
pounds containing a new tetracyclic structure, partially or competely
aromatic, of theoretical interest.
Grant by the Graduate School: A new class of organometallie rea
gents. which undergo extensive rearrangements under mild conditions,
is being investigated. The results appear to bear upon. the intimate
structural nature of the attached heteroaromatic nuclei.
F. J. Reithel, associate professor, appointed 1946—Ph. D. 1942,
University of Oregon Medical School. Previous experience: Lalor
fellowship, St. Louis University; instructor, St. Louis University;
instructor, Washington University School of Medicine; and research
fellow, California Institute of Technology. Research grants from ONR
and National Institute of Health.
Study Of Gland
Biochemistry of the mammary gland: A study of the synthetic and
metabolic activities of lactating mammary gland. Of chief intrest
is the exact mechanism involved in the synthesis of lactose or milk
sugar. Other aspects of mammary metabolism are being studied to
provide information for those interested in the problem of breast
cancer.
Various portions of this problem are being studied with recent ad
vanced techniques such as enzyme assays, radioactive tracers, chro
matography, and differential centrifugation.
This project is now in its fourth year and has been supported by the
Office of Naval Research.
Synthetic biochemical mechanisms: To be undertaken by Dr. M. C.
Horowitz working on a postdoctoral research fellowship awarded by
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis under supervision of
Dr. F. J. Reithel.
Sugar Phosphate Separation
Chromatographic separation of sugar phosphates: An attempt will
be made to develop new techniques for sepaarting and analyzing im
portant constituents of tissues. This is an attempt to furnish an an
alytical tool for use in studying carbohydrate metabolism.
Supported by grant from Graduate Council, University of Oregon.
Study of the intestinal enzyme lactase: The intestinal enzyme involved
in the digestion of milk sugar has been isolated during a study under
written by the U. S. Public Health Service. Further studies of this en
zyme are contemplated.
D. F. Swinehart, assistant professor, appointed 1946—Ph.D. 1943,
Ohio State University. Previous experience: research chemist, Eastman
Kodak Company; research, Atomic Energy Commission, Los Alamos.
Research grant from A.E.C.
Solution Chemistry Problems
For several years Swinehart has been engaged in a series of research
problems dealing with solution chemistry, specifically in the thermo
dynamics of dilute electrolytic solutions. Some of these were financed
with funds from the Research Council of the University of Oregon in
amounts of several hundred dollars per year. Two of the problems were
supported by a grant of $1800 from the Research Corporation (New
York) as indicated in the description. Part of the work was done by
Swinehart personally. Part has been done by graduate students under
his direction.
Pierre Van Rysselberghe, professor, appointed 1941—Engineer, Uni
versity of Brussels, 1927; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1929. Previous
experience: instructor, Stanford University.
Van Rysselberghe is now on sabbatical leave with Fulbright Fellow
ship in Milan, Italy. Research grant from Office of Naval Reserve.
UO Placement Service, Federal
Council Co-Sponsor Conference
An informal conference on uni
versity level occupations in the
fcd*>al service in the Pacific
Northwest will be held Thursday.
Sponsors arc the Federal Person
nel council of Portland and the uni
versity's graduate placement serv
ice with the help of teaching de
partments.
Sessions will be open to persons
from 18 to 35 years of age who
have graduated or expect to gradu
ate from college by June. Faculty
members have also been invited.
Speakers from outside the uni
versity will include J. Lyle Cun
ningham, assistant regional direc
tor of the Bureau of Reclamation;
Ben Hundley, president of the
Portland Federal Council; F. S.
I Creager, assistant chief of the re
gional personnel management di
vision of soil conservation service.
Joseph J. Pachot, Bonneville
j Power administration; R. C. Fury,
Soil Conservation Service; Sam
Hutchinson, Fish and Wild Life
service; Robert Hooper, Atomic
Energy commission from Hanford.
Wash.; Frank Cole. Corps of Engi
neers.
Mrs. Dolores Y. Miller, Corps of
Engineers; Miss Ruth Carr, BPA;
Roscoe Day, BPA; J. Lyle Cun
ningham, Bureau of Reclamation;
Bernard Goldhammer, BPA; Ar
thur Atkisson, BPA, nnd Dr. Wil
liam K. Van Deraell, Soil Conserve*
tion service.
Further information concerning
the conference may be obtained by
contacting the teacher placement
office.
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