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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1981)
Two science programs gain status, support By ANN PORTAL Of the Emerald Wary of public reaction to new programs, the State Board of Higher Education supported two University requests but denied a third at its March 27 meeting. The board granted institute status for the neuroscience and chemical physics programs but rejected a proposed doctoral program in computer and infor mation science. None of the three programs had asked for additional University funding, and the board of education staff had recommended all for approval. Graduate school Dean Rich ard Hersh says the school is pleased the board approved the two applications for institute status but is disappointed at the Senate to vote on changing grad requisites The University Senate will scrutinize two motions on graduation requirements today at 3:30 p.m. in room 229 of the law school. English Prof. Thelma Green field, chairer of the curriculum committee, will call for another vote on the mathematics requir ement for a Bachelor of Science degree. The Assembly approved the mathematics requirement on Nov. 7,1979, but the curriculum committee proposes that the requirement be deferred until fall 1983. The previously approved mo tion requires that students seeking a B.S. degree complete 36 credit hours in science or social science and demonstrate proficiency in mathematics. The mathematics proficiency requirement can be met by sat isfactory completion of a math ematics competency exam or completion of three courses from a list of mathematics and computer and information science courses. In addition, Greenfield will submit a proposal for changes in group-satisfying courses and clusters and procedures for graduation requirements. According to Greenfield, the new requirements would become effective in fall 1982. If the University should switch to the semester system, the proposal would be coordinated for semesters. Senate members will also elect a new secretary. English Prof. John Sherwood has ac cepted a nomination for the of fice. -SKI MT. BACHELOR Stay in Connie’s Condominiums SUNRIVER 1. 6Bdrm. Sleeps 15-17 2. 4 Bdrm. Sleeps 14 3. 2 Bdrm. Sleeps 6 INN OF THE SEVENTH MOUNTAIN 3 Condominiums 1-3 Bedrooms Rates $24-$ 100 343*1110 687-2287 computer science program be ing deferred. In April, the board will reconsider the computer science request, which was defeated by a 4-4 vote. “I don’t think they believed us when we said there was no extra cost," says CIS department head Steve Hedetniemi The doctoral program would save money — as much as $30,000 a year — by providing doctoral students to help teach lower-division courses, Hedet niemi says. The supply of doctoral students in computer science is inadequate, he says. About 200 doctoral students graduate in the United States each year, but Bell Laboratories alone needs 650 doctorate graduates. Oregon State University, which has had a doctoral pro gram since 1972, has produced only six doctoral graduates in nine years. Granting institute status to the neuroscience and chemical physics programs provides the two programs with a nationally recognizable structure, Hersh says. They are the first new in stitutes at the University since the Inter-University Center of Postgraduate Studies was created in 1975. There is “something pres tigious" about institute status, Hersh says. It connotes a "no tion of interdisciplinary re search." Areas of inter disciplinary study are not typically considered depart c ::0 ,6<VV4' ^ <^e\oO"VV " ^ Dinner Hours: 5-10p.m. Su-Thu, 5-11p.m. Fri & Sat Lunch • Sunday Brunch • Cocktails • Entertainment 2200 Centennial Blvd. ments, he adds. John Moseley, chairer of the Chemical Physics Committee, says the new Chemical Physics Institute will “facilitate research and education in the interdisci plinary field of chemical phy sics." “Research in chemical phy sics touches most areas of our everyday life,” Moseley says. These areas include under standing the atmosphere and lasers, developing and im plementing energy sources and understanding the origins of molecules in interstellar space. Activity in chemical physics already has "more than dou bled” in the past year through the existing chemical physics program, Moseley says. “With any luck, we expect by this time next year that activity will have doubled again.” Basic support for establishing the institute came from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a Vancouver, Wash, group that gave the chemical physics pro gram a $400,000 grant last summer. 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