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Show • Henry Eyring Dean of the Graduate School Ivan B. Cutler Head of the Ceramic Engineering Department "We believe our department rates right along with those at M.I.T., the University of California and Pennsylvania State, ' says Ivan B. Cutler, head of the Department of Ceramic Engineering. This department, once small, has been greatly enlarged in the last few years. Students and faculty are now involved in research for the Air Force through the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute. The department has three National Science Foundation grants, a General Electric Foundation Fellowship and a National Defense Act Graduate Research Fellowship. Projects include study of such problems as what type of material should be used in atomic reactors. Dr. Cutler has served as Chairman of the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society and as vice chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics. 28 In addition to his work as graduate school dean, Dr. Henry Eyring directs graduate research and teaches in the Chemistry Department. As present he is supervising research in "optical rotation studies of molecular structure on biologically interesting molecules." Also he is working with machinery that can simulate the pressure conditions found 250 miles below the earth's surface. Other projects deal with the theory of liquids and electrolysis. He is well known for the formula for reaction rates; he has written several books and over 300 papers in national journals; he has four honorary Dr. of Science degrees and is president of the American Chemical Society. In December Dr. Eyring was voted president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he will assume the office in January 1965. To him, research is a "cooperative enterprise to which all contribute." "American Higher Education in the Sixties is the subtitle of the Profane Comedy, one of the most useful and best written books anyone is likely to read in a long time." This was written by Alfred C. Ames of the Chicago Tribune in reviewing one of Dr. Kenneth E. Eble's recent books. The book discusses higher education, a field in which Dr. Eble takes an active part. American literature is Dr. Eble's academic field and major interest, and he has written two books representative of it. They are Howells: A Century of Criticism and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has also published numerous essays and articles on such varied subjects as the comic strip, academic publishing and college athletics. He is now planning two more books, Development of American Prose and, a follow up on the Profane Comedy, New Directions for Higher Education. Kenneth E. Eble Associate Professor of English |
