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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 6, 1964
THE BATTALIOI
Striving
Excellence
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A&M offers undergraduate and
graduate studies in more than 60
fields from aerospace engineering
to zoology at a cost well below
the national average for resident
schools.
Changes and expansion in the
curricula have made A&M a uni
versity embracing colleges of engi
neering, arts, science, business,
education, agriculture, veterinary
medicine, as well as graduate and
professional studies.
CHANGES AND expansion dur
ing the last school year indicate
the striving for excellence.
Big news for A&M was the sign
ing by NASA in April of an
agreement to build a $1 Million
space center at A&M. The 30,-
000 square foot building will house
A&M’s Activation Analysis Labor
atory and other space-related re
search activities.
The research center’s activities
will include the present “probe”
for space flight; the Space Tech
nology Division; sections of A&M’s
Institute of Statistics; and mem
bers of the Data processing staff.
Another April addition to fac
ilities in aiding students was one
of the world’s most powerful elec
tron microscopes to the Micro
copy Laboratory.
The new microscope, installed in
the physics building, will magnify
up to 200,000 times and will enable
scientists to analyze particles as
small as 10 atoms wide.
THE MONTH of February saw
two large steps toward building
the academics of A&M.
A new library design was ap
proved by the Board of Directors.
Planned to meet the needs of the
university over the next twenty
years, the present Cushing library
will be expanded by the addition
of an adjoining four story build
ing. The first floor will be ori
ented toward the underclassmen.
The second floor will house the
general subjects of humanities and
social sciences. Seating will be
at individual study ‘carrels.’
The third floor will house the
physical sciences and engineering
collections, as well as government
documents. The fourth floor will
house the life sciences and agri
cultural collections with additional
graduate carrels. Most of the
library's rare and irreplacable
items will be contained on this
floor.
The old Cushing building will
house and operate as an adjunct
learning center consisting of a
graphics section, film section,
audio section and an educational
TV studio.
TOTAL estimated cost of the
new library is $3,671,650, not in
cluding the learning center. No
construction commencement date
is yet available.
The big story of the year came
when the Atomic Energy Commis
sion announced that it would join
with A&M in the construction of
a $6,000,000 cyclotron.
The cyclotron will be the largest
in the South.
The 88-inch variable energy cy
clotron will be used to advance un
derstanding of the nucleus of
atoms. Top scientist will be at
tracted by the institute and the
number of doctoral degrees are ex
pected to double in physics and
chemistry.
The cyclotron will train students
who will be capable of establishing
new industries associated with
peaceful uses of atomic energy.
The new cyclotron, expected to
be in working condition in 1968,
will be the most powerful “spiral
ridge cyclotron in the world.”
Dr. George J. Igo, director of
the A&M Cyclotron Institute said,
“We should be able to produce
120 MeV (million electron volts)
which is twice the energy the
California cyclotron has.”
ONE OF THE newest additions
to the university’s facilities is a
mobile data gathering unit which
was donated to the Department of
Chemical Engineering by Dresser
Controls of Houston.
The machine, built to sell for
$100,000, will be used largely by
undergraduate students engaged in
laboratory and research work.
Action by the Texas Commis
sion on Higher Education has add
ed a 49th doctoral program to the
offerings at A&M.
The Ph.D. in education will have
options for educational administra
tion or curriculum and instruction.
CUSHING LIBRARY EXPANSION
. .. planned expansion will provide for one million volumes.
The Board of Directors will form
ally ask the commission for the
creation of a new Department of
Philosophy and Humanities in the
College of Arts and Sciences. Re
quest will also be made to approve
the establishment of a new School
of Natural Bio-Sciences in the
College of Agriculture. The new
school would be composed of the
Department of Forestry Science,
Recreation and Parks, Range Sci
ence and Wildlife Science.
RESEARCH in another field was
aided by the dedication of the ves
sel Alaminos, the only university
operated oceanographic vessel in
the Gulf of Mexico capable of all
ocean research work.
The Alaminos is a converted
U. S. Army freight and supply
vessel and is named for Anton de
Alaminos, who sailed with Colum
bus and later piloted early voyages
of the Gulf of Mexico.
The College of Architecture
created a more academic environ
ment for the architecture students
with the dedication of a new $1
million building in November.
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