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2 DR. BLUM DR. BRESSLER Two Med Center Faculty Get Guggenheim Awards Two medical center faculty members have been awarded 1969 Guggenheim Fellowships. They are Dr. Jacob J. Blum, profes sor of physiology, and Dr. Rubin Bress- ler, professor of medicine and pharma cology. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memo rial Foundation for academic merit. In cluded in the fellowships are grants to htcKcom l:^^*Bduke univcRtity m6ic»l cantan INTERCOM is published monthly for Duke University Medical Center faculty, staff, em ployes, students and friends by the Medical Center Public Relations Office, Joe Sigler, director. Mrs. Sue Childs PR assistant and Intercom editor Mrs. Betty Linthicum Public Relations Secretary Editorial Committee: Sam A. Agnello, direc tor of the division of audiovisual education; James L. Bennett, Jr., administrative assistant to the associate provost for medical affairs; Mrs. Brainerd Currie, publicity chairman of the Dulce Hospital Women's Auxiliary; George H. Mack, assistant director; James Smeltzer, assistant director of medical center personnel, and Miss Julia Taylor, R. N., head nurse on Strudwick ward. support recipients while they are pur suing promising scholarly projects. Dr. Blum, who joined the Duke faculty in 1962 as associate professor, will work with Prof. A. Katchalsky at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rehovath, Israel during the 1969-70 academic year. His research there will be on "A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Hydrodynamic Interaction Be tween Adjacent Cilia." Dr. Blum received his A. B. degree from New York University in 1947, his master's from the University of Chicago in 1950 and his Ph. D. in physiology from Chicago in 1952. Dr. Bressler came to Duke in 1959 and was named to his present position in 1966. He will go to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on July I for a year of research on "The Effects of Pharmacologic Agents on the Metabolism of the Pancreas and Insulin Secretion." A graduate of McGill University in 1951, Dr. Bressler attended Harvard Med ical School and received his M. D. de gree from Duke in 1957. He served internship and residency at Yale's New Haven Medical Center. Other Duke professors receiving the fellowships were Dr. W. W. Kulski, James B. Duke Professor of Russian Affairs, and Dr. Marcel Tetel, professor of romance languages. Med Student Wins Travel Fellowship MR. MAULITZ A second-year medical student at Duke has been awarded the Logan Clendening Traveling Fellowship in the History of Medicine. This is the second time in three years that a Duke student has won the international award. Russell Maulitz, a participant in the M. D.-Ph. D. medical historian program, will travel to London and Liege, Bel gium, to do research on the papers of Theodor Schwann. Schwann was a physician who in the I830's did some work on the cell doctrine. Mr. Maulitz, who will leave the Un ited States in June, will be working with Dr. Marcel Florkin at Liege. The Clendening Fellowship is pre sented annually by the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas. The 1967 winner was Mike Witherspoon, a grad uate of the Duke University School of Medicine. At Duke, Mr. Maulitz is the first par ticipant in a special curriculum which will permit him to obtain his M. D. degree along with a Ph. D. degree in history in six years. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Maulitz of Birmingham, Ala., he is a graduate of Harvard University and re ceived his master's degree from the University of London.
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