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Wednesday, September 19, 1979 daily nebraskan pegs 3 MIT dean to speak Thursday Grant awarded for attention researeh Lawrence B. Anderson, dean emeritus of architecture and planning at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology will speak at the Sheldon Art Gallery at 4 p.m. TTiursday. Anderson's lecture will be the first of the 1979-80 Hyde Speakers Series spon sored by the College of Architecture. The Hyde Speakers Series is named in memory of the late A. Leicester Hyde, a UNL alumnus in architecture who was president of Midwest Life Insurance Co. He also served as a member of the College of Architecture's Advisory Council. The title of Anderson's talk will be "Professional Accountability in History," a subject which will form part of the theme for this year's overall series. Anderson has had extensive architectural and educational experience as a partner in the firm of Anderson, Beckwith and Haibile from 1937 to 1972 and on the faculty of MIT from 1947 to 1971. Throughout the 1979-80 academic year, five other speakers will address the theme "Professional Accountability, Responsive ness to HumanEnvironmental Futures." They will examine the professions of architecture and planning with regard to their accountability to man and the environment as illustrated in past, present and future practices. The lectures will be free and open to the public. UNL Associate Professor of Psychology John Flowers has been awarded $34,672 by the National Science Foundation's Division of Information Science and Technology. The grant will enable Flowers to research processes which control attention in human observers. In his experiments, he plans to test subjects' ability to con centrate attention on one portion of a visual display, as well as their ability to ignore irrelevant or distracting informat tion." He will conduct 20 to 30 projects in volving two different computers using slides, shutters and a CRT oscilloscope, to which subjects respond vocally or by pres sing a button. Some of his subjects will be coming in for 10 days, one hour dally to participate in his experiments. "Part of the idea of my research is to get a better understanding of the type of learning that allows us to handle several types of information at once," Flowers said. He has two years to complete his research. lake . stock stoG Steffi Applications for Home coming Royalty are being accepted in Nebraska Union 332. Deadline is 4 pjn Sept. 24. The Child Guidance Clinic is sponsoring a lecture on "Little People," a con ference on child rearing, beginning at 9 a jn. Wednes day at the Division of Con tinuing Education. Edward Christophersen, professor of pediatrics at the University of Kansas, is the featured speaker. The UPC Concert Com mittee will meet at 4 pjn. in Union 221. Circle K will meet at 6 pjn. in the Union. Room number will be posted. 1 "" ":'f The UNL Ski dub will meet at 7 pjn. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 60th & South Streets. The Campus Red Cross will meet Thursday at 6 pjn. in the Union. Room number will be posted. The Progressive Student Union will present a forum n women Thursday at 7 pjn". in the Union. Room number wOI be posted. QMS OfOl - 8:30 am. Career Plan ning & Placement Interview Film, Room 232 " 10:30 ajn.-Career Plan ning & Placement Interview Film, Room 232 11:45 a-m.-UJULD. Luncheon, Regency Suite B 12-1:30 pm.- Chicano Graduate Student Associa tion, The Cellar S. 12 pjn. Latin American Student Assn. Films, Mahj Lounge 3 J 0-5 pjn.-Latin American Student Associa tion "Dr. Esquena2i Mayo", The Rostrum 5-7 pjn.-ASUN Acade mic Policy Committee, Room 216 - 5:30-7: 15 pjn.-Gamma fembda . P!edtsp Harvest . Room A-B -v r ' 5j30.; pjn.rErneering Toastmssten, Harvest RccmC - "", t - - 6-7 pjn.-CL-cb K, Georgian Suite A - -". -' I r 6 pjaz-Gaaima Lambda, -Harvest Room A-B -." fee? & cVn Everyone is invited to the Daisy's IFMUL (gULIi " MOT off on all merchandise mm OCHV Thursday, Sept. 20 5 p.m.-12 midnight ' Also serving Wine & cheese mm mm mi mi 2nd level .Atrium 12th ..:,- mm mm &
