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Vol XVIII No
Tucker, Webber,
Push Research
EVA TUCKER, JR., INSTRUCTOR IN GEOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY,
AND EDGAR E. WEBBER, ASSISTAND PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, HAVE
RECEIVED FINANCIAL AID FROM PENN STATE TO DO ORIGINAL RE
SEARCH.
Tucker will study the genesis and petrology of sands
along Lake Erie to determine the positional environment
in which the sands accumulated, probable source of sedi
ments, and former distribution of glacial meltwater streams
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Behrend Campus
His results should be com
pleted next summer, and may
point UD methods to stabil
ize the neninsula sands.
`ticker 's grant amounts
to $1,950 from Penn State's
Earth and Mineral Sciences
Experimental Station, and
, z))0 00 from the Tice-Pres
idents Research Fund.
Webber will study al
gae in the lakes, ponds,
and streams of northwestern
Pennsylvania. This will
show the extent of pollu
tion in local bodies of
water through the algae.
Algae
Webber'
MEM
of I"lz3ssrachist
Webber '
sis is based
and he has
$3OO. grant
Vlce-Preside
Fund.
A lot a
goes to thes
instructors.