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
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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
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John Moseley, chairer of the
Chemical Physics Committee,
says the new Chemical Physics
Institute will “facilitate research
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sics."
“Research in chemical phy
sics touches most areas of our
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plementing energy sources and
understanding the origins of
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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.
The institute hopes to raise
more than $1 million a year to
support state-of-the-art re
search projects, graduate and
undergraduate students and re
search personnel, Moseley
says.
Nine professors and more
than 20 others, including
students and research person
nel, already are involved in the
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