Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith in man's ability to supply his needs through science--in spite of the world's depleting natural resources and increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...
...Telegraph Company as one of the six winners of the 1949-50 Frank B. Jewett Fellowships. Jenkins, one of the award recipients of last year, will be granted $3000 for himself and $1500 for the institution at which he continues his studies. This post-doctorate award, designed to stimulate research in the fundamental physical sciences, was granted to him for his works in the field of topological mapping problems...
Murphy is a part of Harvard's Parapsychology tradition. He was one of the first research follows to work under the University's Hodgson fund for investigation of psychic powers, and from 1922 to 1925 to pioneered in the field of scientifically controlled investigation of such extra-sensory powers as telepathy and clairvoyance...
...Murphy founded the Psychology Department and the Parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, and several years later went to CCNY. He returned to Harvard in the summer of 1942 and taught a course in psychic experimentation. Murphy was recently elected president of the English society for Psychical Research...
Dean Meson of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Robert F. Bales, assistant professor of Social Relations, and Stewart Hughes, assistant professor of History, will discuss "The Processes of Consensus in Research" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Littauer Auditorium...