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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1979
Grants offer chance
for overseas study
By PAMELA RIMOLDI
Battalion Reporter
Graduating students interested in continuing their education in a
foreign country may obtain grants for the 1980-1981 school year
through the Fulbright Program.
The Fulbright grants are reserved mainly for graduate students
woilcing on doctoral dissertations or for students who wish to pursue
careers in the creative and performing arts.
The grants are applicable in Europe, South America, the Middle
East and other areas.
The grants provide round-trip transportation, language orientation
courses, living expenses, tuition, books, and accident and health in
surance, depending on the type of grant.
To be eligible to apply for a Fulbright grant, the student must be a
U.S. citizen, have a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent, be able to
speak the language of the host country, and he or she cannot have a
doctoral degree.
Appilcations must be in to the Texas A&M University International
Services Office by Oct. 15. Along with the application form for the
grant, the student must submit a statement describing what he or she
plans to do during the year of study.
Tsetse fly research
getting more money
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Catfish vaccination
gets finishing touches
Veterinary researchers at Texas
A&M University are approaching a
reliable method of vaccinating cat
fish from diseases that threaten two-
inch fingerling stock on fish farms.
By bathing young fish in special
liquid solutions or mixing the vac
cine with feed for older catfish, the
stock can be immunized against sev
eral virulent bacterial strains, said
reterinary microbiologist Donald
Lewis.
If approved for public use, catfish
farmers would buy the solutions and
fingerlings in tanks prior to in-
roducing the fish to the ponds
/here they mature. Once there, the
vaccine can be added to feed, he ex-
ilained.
Perfection of the technique will
:ap several years of work between
Texas A&M and the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Commercial
latfish farming in Texas is now
venerating more than $10 million in
ncome, according to the Texas Ag-
iculture Department.
The last steps of research are
limed at correcting toxicity prob
lems from the solutions in young cat
fish. Lewis and Raymond Sis, head of
veterinary anatomy, have a $88,277
US DA grant to remove final obsta
cles.
“There’s no doubt this is the way
to immunize catfish,” Lewis said.
Protection lasts for at least eight
weeks and, as part of this year’s
project, he said he hopes to find out
how much longer it can last.
Characterizing the groups of bac
teria strains was the key that allowed
rapid progress, and studies will con
tinue so more advances can be made,
Lewis said.
The Department of the Interior is
watching the project to learn if simi
lar vaccination techniques work for
game fish, such as bass and trout
raised in government hatcheries,
Lewis said.
Texas A&M virologist Stewart
McConnell is studying another killer
of large numbers of stocker-size cat
fish. His research is examining the
immune response, latency and
molecular biology.
By SHERIE KELLER
Battalion Reporter
The U. S. Agency for International
Development has granted an
additional $444,000 to tsetse fly re
search being done at Texas A&M
University and Mali, Africa.
The grant is in addition to the
$800,000 to $1 million that USAID
spends each year on this research,
said Dr. J. K. Olson, a medical
entomologist with the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment station. The main
focus of USAID is to help developing
countries develop, he said.
In 1976 two entomologists and two
veterinarians from Texas A&M, with
the help of USAID, started research
to help the people of Mali solve
tsetse fly problems in their cattle
herds.
This program, headed by Olson
and Dr. Raymond Loan, associate
dean of the College of Veterinary
Medicine, is designed to combine
research and on-the-job training.
The program is of major concern
because the tsetse fly carries
trypanosomiasia or sleeping sick
ness, which can affect both humans
and animals, Olson said.
Protozoa which break down blood
cells are released into the blood
stream when the fly bites, causing
the disease. If left untreated, the
disease is fatal.
“Our program mostly concerned
with livestock. Cattle are a large part
of the Mali income. Once a French
colony, Mali is looked upon by
Europe as a source of beef, much like
Texas is looked upon for beef in the
United States,” Olson said.
The landscape is much like Texas
also. Going from southern to north
ern Mali is like going from south
western Texas to El Paso, he said.
“We are hoping, because of the
similarities between regions, that
what works here in Texas will work in
Mali and vice versa,” he said.
Until now the program has been
strictly professionals from Texas
A&M working with counterpart pro
fessionals in Mali, but next year stu
dents will start work in the program.
Students from Mali will come to
Texas A&M for special studies last
ing one semester, while Texas A&M
entomology graduate students will
go to Mali for one year to conduct
research.
The first graduate student will be
going at the beginning of next year
with the first exchange studeqt from
Mali arriving Dec. 30 for the spring
semester.
“To have graduate students in the
program is just a matter of prefer
ence, and I prefer them. The student
knows he has a limited amount of
time to accomplish his research.
while the professional might know
he has longer and waste time,” Olson
said.
The Texas A&M side of the pro
gram serves as a training and
technology base for the students.
The actual work is being done in
Mali. Helping those people help
themselves, he said.
“This is the reason for on-the-job
training. We teach them control
methods and they go out and apply
them to their herds. This way they
can control the tsetse fly population
even after we leave,” he said.
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