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APRIL 7, 1978
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. NSF Awards $13,500 For Student Research Proposal
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Ten stlidents at Stevens College of Medicine and Denreceived official acceptance of tlstry In Newark, N,J" nave their research proposal by the made tnemselves available to National Science Fbundatlon. the group during the summer, The 'group nas been awardeq Dean Moeller (Dean of $13,500 for their study of Educational Development) was "Cancer In New Jersey," This' ofspeclal help to tne students In award was made under tne Stu- helping them wade tnrough tne dent Originated StUdies paper work needed to submit Program of tne N,S.F. tne proposal. Dr. Pinkham of Wnlle the students were Mathematics and Dr. van der waiting for final word, they un- Veen, of Cnemlstry nave NSF' Reclple~tii: <(Ieit to rlghl)' Dr.~Bo Vlvlan"Const~nt; Bonnie Oalllng, Bullock, MaIY Ann dertook a number of activities volunteered their time· towards Russo; 'BOb Traltet, William Krause, Vlcto~ Plane.., Karen Calvert, Betllna Kahn, Barbara Hansen, relevant to tne project. In the project.. Chris' Wa!'d arid Dean MoeUer,_ February they attended a Feclllties whlcn have been meeting of the Occupational made available include the' Hazard 'and Safety Admlnlstra· 'biology labs at the Newark tlon In New York City. This Medical School, instrumenta. " meeting (neld atlne Americana tion In the S.I.T, Cnemlstry < After an eX:PElctant nine month be connected by a window. The calY1Pus telephone system is 1m- Hotel) was a forum neld to department and tne Stevens walt new babY was delivered present machine room Is to be proved (tentatively, this facilitate communications PDP-10 computer. Instrumen· to the St~eris 'Computer convertecfinto a teletype room. summer). In addition, the Com- between OSHA and various in- tatlon to be used will inclUde center this Wednesday.' The' 'The new computer will not be uter Center is hoping to get dustry leaders. Primarily tne ultraviolet, Infrared and nuclear "baby" is a new DEC Syatem 10 'available forgenaral use for one some new terminals to add to, discussions attempted to ex- magnetic re~onance spec· plain and explore the policies trometers, the Picker X-Ray 011· computer which will replace our, to two months, during which the existing ones. present8'hyearoldcomputer, It time It will be tested and Fewer people will have security OSHA would take In the near fracto meter and the Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. is a large scale time sharing "debugged" by' the Computer clearance for the machine room and moderate tuture. The students nave also begun The X-ray anil CIMS machines system manufactured by the ,Ce.nter Staff. After the break In due to Its expense and comDlglt~1 Equipment Corporation, period, some old components pllcated operational procedure preparations for tne twelve In particular are devices whlcn and IS one of the best time will be SWitched to the new and sensitlvlty,to atmospheric weeks that will encompass tne are rarely encountered in unsharing computers made. computer, Also, all users will be conditions. study. Computer searcnes of dergraduate projects or Fundsforthecomputer, which on the new machine, The new computer, will afford current medicel literature nave researcn. cost over $900,009 came from a ,DeveloP~d about two years an Illcrease in the number of been 'done, and arrangements Tne funding of tnls project is special grant and not regular ago,' the new computer is users and also allow for longer are being made for use of an nonor to the students inschOOl funds. Besides Ihe com- technically far ahead of the one programs. It will be much faster various libraries and otner volved In tnat only about 14% of puter, other Improvements will Stevens now owns. As a result, than the present one and best of sources of cancer statistics. tne proposals tnat finally reacn be made to the Center. An air It Is mor,e compact th'an the old all, once broken In it will not Tne two primary advisors to NSF are actually funded at all. conditioning system will be in- one. For example, the 256k have the' high Incidence of the group, Dr. Ajay Bose of tne Only one otner project (Trenton stalled w,ithin the next two memory on' tne new machine, breakdown that plagues users S.I,T. cnemlstry department State) in New Jersey was fund· weeks to insure that the super- talies up the same amount of at present. and Dr. John Bullock of tne ed. sensltlvecomputerlskeptl!tlhe room as a 16k memory on the proper temperature and" old, Thus, there Is more room humidity. . for extra components. mer!! Also, tnere' wilL be a few will be four tape drives as comalterations to tne set-up In tne pared to three on tne old The Garden State SCholarship year only, graduate Institutions scholarsnlps will be awarded In Center. The new computer w.1I1 maChine; moie programs and a Graduate Fellowship Program' will nominate candidates for all graduate fields of study exbe situated In Room 36 of the new language, APL, will be has announced that 25 tnese awards and selections will cept' the professlonat fields Computer Center, Tne present available, The computer has a ,graduate fellowsnlps worth $4,- be made by a committee ap- such as law, medicine, dentistry teletype room, Vlnlch Is next mucn larger capacity '\ 48 as 000,00 each will be made pointed by tne New Jersey State ·ortheology. door, will be converted into an compared 'to 34 available lines available to New Jersey Scnolarsnlp Commission. Tne scholarsnlp Is awarded In/out room for cards, etc., and for hard and dial-up connec- residents enrolled for full time The recipients of tnls award for a duration offouryears. As a also a tape store room. The lions. Full capacity however, study in New Jersey graduate will be selected on tna basis of recipient tnere are no added In/out and machine rooms will will not be available until the institutions In 1978-79. For this merit only and must be New stipulations or duties except Jersey residents In good' that you must be a full time (Cont. on pg. 3, col. 1f academic standing. mese
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A sunny Sunday afternoon tegral members of tne Stevens played host to some 80P visitors Community. for the annual President's Tea Refresnments were on hand In held April 2nd. The accepted pre-frosn and tnelr families the Pierce Room where the were greeted in the lobby of the different departments of study library and registered by ,on campus were represented at members of the Stevens , designated tables, Faculty Parents Association. Students members were available and escorted groups on a brief tour prepared to answer any and to a series of departmental questions tne accepted demonstrations within the applicants might have regarvarious labs and facilities on ding academics, The Tea was and around campus. Each tour concluded witn performances concluded on the second floor by the Stevens Glee Club wno . of the center wlylre Visitors presented a variety of musical were' received by President selectio'ns as well as the AI ma Rogers ,and several other in- Mater.
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Arson, False Alarms Prompt Action At·3 A.M. Thursday morning, Meanvinlle back at tne dorm, Marcn 28th, a vandalized heat residents were fast asleep sensor summoned the Hoboken I:lecause no fire bells ever rang Fire Department to Nortn Dorm, in Nortn Dorm. me Hoboken (Matches taped to tne Fire Department was. to say the wasnroom heat sensor). least, incensed. They proceed-
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ed to entar tna dorm and forced studants to evacuate wnlcn, as tne law states is tnelr duty. Dorm residents, many of wnom . had tests tne next day. were also very an noyed. North Dorm Is tne fourtn dorm In a matter 'of months to experience a lire alarm malfuncliOn, The' bells In the dorm did' not rflig because tna alarm was not resat properly. Later tnal day, the bells were resel. To make sure the system Is workIng properly, Mr, Starrett, the plant ,engineer, Is to be called whenever an alarm goes off. 'Hoboken Fire Marshall, Roy , Falco, came to tne IDC meeting second International Studentl Day received a hungry recepllon on this Monday to see If something The Wednetday afternoon. The event held In the Pierce Room ealily handled could be done to remedy the the large Stevenl Community turnout. situation. Since September, Eech country represented ollered culinary speclaltlea 01 their parllculer Stevens has nad seventeen country. Beveragel 1I0wed and music tram the various countries filtered alarms, mostly In North and throughout the caleteria. The late sfternoon entertainment Included original Chlnase dances a slide show and Korean folkalnglng. South dorms, Three of the Among the countries represented were Jamaica, ,,"stralla, Pakistan, alarms he said were fires lnat Japan, Indle, China, Jordan, Columbia, Puerto Rico (great plna coladas), Gr.... and Sicily. (Cont, on pg. 2, col. 1)
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