Outlines programs conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and the Peace Corps utilizing college graduates in environmental projects of developing countries. Requests are primarily for personnel in projects concerned with natural resource conservation and ecological research. General information for applicants is given, together with environmental…

Organized programs for foreign students can no longer exist as they have in the past. (HS)

The success of institutional food purchasing is dependent upon closely followed principles for quality and openness to ideas. (Editor)

The barter system for researchers consists of two parts: a list linking various research areas with researchers willing to entertain collegial inquiriies, and a clerk to note the number of hours that participants give and receive in the information exchange. (MF)

A one-semester, two-credit course is described that was developed cooperatively by the colleges of pharmacy and veterinary medicine at Washington State University to help resolve an acute shortage of clinical pharmacologists in veterinary medicine and veterinary medical education. Course procedures, content, and evaluation are outlined (MSE)

Discusses the development, organization, activities, problems, and future of a staff education consortium of five medical center hospitals in Boston. The purposes of the consortium are mutual sharing, reduction in duplication, and cost containment of educational programing. (JOW)

To encourage excellence in mathematics skills, National Society of Professional Engineers and other organizations are sponsoring a new, nationwide mathematics competition called "Mathcounts." The two-part program consists of coaching advanced math skills and team competition on local, state, and national levels. A description of the…

Ten institutions of higher education--large and small, public and private-- were surveyed about their resource-raising and revenue-producing enterprises. Examples include: bingo games, a mansion used for weddings, receptions, and corporate parties, and buying a television station. (MLW)

University and industry relations in the United States, it is suggested, must promote competitive U.S. industries. The prime motive for increasing university-industrial relations is competitive commercial products and services. Other countries' success results from national technology ventures based on superior marketing and marshalling of…

A program was developed to integrate the father into nutritional training and to focus on how he could play a more knowledgeable role in the nutrition concerns of his family. When a means was presented, the father readily accepted the opportunity to become involved in improving the family's nutritional health. (Author/JN)