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The article focuses on various news briefs and announcements. Alabama Polytechnic Institute: Robert T. McMillan has been appointed part-time professor of research to conduct studies of farm mechanization and housing in Alabama; Iowa State College. Robert Dimit is on leave to study the diffusion of farm management and family living practices in the T.V.A. area; Group Farming Research Institute Inc.,: Henrik F. Infield is directing a field study of the French and West European communities. Southern Conference on Gerontology: The conference was devoted to The Problems of America's Aging Population was held at the University of Florida; The annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society was held at university of Winconsin, Madison in September, 1951.

The Research Section, National Council on Family Relations, through the E.W. Burgess Fund, has announced an annual prize of upward of one hundred dollars to be awarded to the person contributing the best research paper during the year in the fields of marriage and the family. The award is to be presented at the Annual Meeting, and the paper is to be published in Marriage and Family Living.