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achievements of the laboratory
project and on the
recommendations of their
colleges.

As an astronomer at the
University's McCormick
Observatory, Mr. Snyder's
Interest is radio detection and
the study of new interstellar
molecules using data gathered
by radio telescopes.

National Grants

The National Endowment
for the Humanities has
awarded one of ten national
grants to the University for a
summer seminar on "New
Directions in Literary Study."

The program will attempt
to improve the quality and
procedures in undergraduate
education.

The $40,000-grant will
sponsor an eight-week course
of study with the University's
English Department for 10
college teachers.

The students will each
receive a $2,000 stipend plus
travel expenses. Applicants,
according to the seminar
director Dr. Ralph Cohen,
must have long experience
teaching American or English
literature at a college which
does not offer a graduate
program in this area.
Preferences will be given to
teachers from institutions with
limited library resources.

Physics Colloquium

Mr. T.D. Lee of Columbia
University will speak on
"Scaling Properties of Weak
and Electromagnetic
Processes" at the Departmental
Physics Colloquium tomorrow
at 4 p.m. in the Physics
Building, Room 204.

Mr. Lee received the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1957 for
his discovery with C.N. Yang
that the laws of nature are not
mirror-symmetric.

'Volpone'

The Virginia Players will
perform Ben Johnson's
"Volpone" as part of a
nationwide festival in late April
at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington.

The players will perform at
2:00 and 7:30 on April 30 in
the Center's Eisenhower
Theater.

Ticket information is
available from the Virginia's
Players at 924-3051 between 2
and 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.

Guggenheim Fellows

Law Prof. Mason Willrich
and Classics Prof. Marvin M.
Colker have received
Guggenheim Fellowships,
providing them with funds for
a year of independent work in
their fields.

Mr. Willrich, director of the
Law School's Science,
Technology and Public Policy
Center pursue the study of
"Legal Restraints on Energy
Use."

Mr. Colker, a specialist in
Medieval Latin manuscripts
and paleography, will work on
a descriptive catalog of Latin
manuscripts at the University
of Dublin in Ireland.

Asst. English Prof. Daniel F.
Albright, who was also named
to receive a Guggenheim
fellowship this year, declined it
to pursue work under a grant
from the National Endowment
for the Humanities.