Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard and M.I.T. have established a joint Center for Urban Studies, Martin Meyerson, Director of the new Center, has revealed. The first co-operative venture of its kind betwen the two Universities, the project will be equally revolutionary in the broad scope of its activities...
...agreement was signed last week, M.I.T. Chancellor Stratton revealed last night. Negotiations for the joint project have been under way for over a year...
...pioneered in constructing H.C.O. solar observation stations in the west, found the facilities in great demand by the IGY Solar Activity Committee. Ordinary observations were increased in number, and special attention was given to a study of cosmic rays, solar flares and radio reception. Involved in the project were three stations built by the Observatory--at Climax, Colorado; Sunspot, New Mexico; and Ft. Davis, Texas. The first station has been turned over to the University of Colorado; the Sacramento Peak Observatory at Sunspot is owned and operated by the H.C.O. under contracts from the Air Force; and the Ft. Davis...
...many of IGY's most distinguished and valuable contributions have come from scientists not working under the Geophysical Year grants from the National Science Foundation. The whole concept of setting aside a year or eighteen months for special cooperation in the sundry fields of science was so broad a project that it touched people whose whole lives have been dedicated to research in specific areas--oceanography, meteor study, or sunspot work, for example...
Many of these individuals were singled out of IGY grants. Some of them shifted the emphasis of their work, or moved into allied fields; others continued working in their specialties, cooperating with foreign scientists in the same project. But the large majority were not singled out to work under the auspices of the IGY funds voted by Congress. To create a distinction between IGY scientists and non-IGY scientists would, of course, be artificial for on most projects the source of the funds was merely an idle afterthought. In fact, the basic contribution to the satellite program...