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With Fine Arts, Chemistry Buildings

University Keeps Up With Growth

Construction projects meeting
the University's far-ranging needs of
the arts and the sciences are in
various stages of completion as the
fall term opens.

A new chemistry building with
sophisticated equipment that looks
toward the 21st century is already in
operation on McCormick Road, and
a School of Architecture building is

taking shape as the first phase of a
fine arts center. In addition, a
classroom building for arts and
sciences will accommodate everything
from graduate seminars to large
lectures when it opens this winter.

Dedication Ceremony

An autumn dedication
ceremony is planned for the 6.6
million dollar chemistry building in
the heart of the University's
growing science complex. With
facilities that will allow for
graduate and undergraduate
expansion, the building features
such equipment as an x-ray
diffraction laboratory to explore
molecular structures, and two mass
spectrometers which determine the
relationship of atoms within the
molecule.

The new arts and sciences
classroom building is expected to
be ready for occupancy by January
1. Located next to Cabell Hall, the
main arts and sciences building, the
new four-story structure will
include faculty offices, seminar
rooms for graduate students, two
200-seat lecture halls and two
400-seat halls. An English
department library and an
auditorium will help relieve the
space shortage for the College of
Arts and Sciences, whose
enrollment has gone from 2,000 to
more than 3,000 in the past five
years.

Architecture School

The new School of Architecture
on Carr's Hill is scheduled for
completion in early 1970 and will
offer physical facilities where
architectural theories can be put
into practice. The lowest level will
be given over to technical and
structural areas. Students can mix
concrete in an outdoor workshop
and experiment with a heating
system to learn the effect of hot
and humid, or hot and dry weather
on building materials. The building
will feature additional classrooms
and faculty offices for the School
of Architecture as wells as a library
and photo lab.

Not only new buildings, but also
new programs will be introduced at
the University for the 1968 fall
term. Schedule changes include the
abolishing of Saturday classes in
order to free the classroom space
for graduate seminars, teacher
training programs and students
testing. Week-day classes will be
lengthened.

Nuclear Engineering

For the first time this fall the
University is offering an
undergraduate degree in nuclear
engineering. About 20 students are
expected to participate in the first
bachelor of nuclear engineering
program which is set up to help
meet the great demand for
personnel to manage, supervise and
operate nuclear reactors.

Reflecting the growing scope of
computer use in all areas, the
Graduate School of Business
Administration is introducing a
program this fall to teach first-year
students the BASIC programming
language.

The interdisciplinary aspect of
higher education also is being
stressed increasingly. A new center
for the study of science, technology
and public policy has just begun
operation in the School of Law.
The center will initiate and support
the study of social problems and
public policy questions related to
scientific and technical
developments on the local,
national, and international level.

Lev Zetlin

Lev Zetlin, an international
consulting engineer and structural
designer, will become full-time
professor of architecture and of
civil engineering this fall. Noted for
his development of new structural
engineering techniques, he is the
first person to hold the dual
professorship.

The humanities division of the
School of Engineering and Applied
Science is offering a new course in
the history of science which will be
open to students in engineering and
in the College of Arts and Sciences.