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The article presents updates on activities and educational programs of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa as of July 1966. An interdisciplinary Master of Science degree program in industrial relations has recently been approved by the university. The university established an Industrial Relations Center on June 1, 1966. Professor Harry Cohen, is writing a book focusing on the social problems of industrial civilization. Professor Harold W. Davey will work on a monograph dealing with the theory and practice of labor arbitration.

The article gives information about the NCFR annual meeting to be held at Ames, Iowa during August 19-21, 1959. Theme of the conference is "Growing Individual Values Within the Family." Research papers or summaries of papers to be considered for the section meetings of the conference are Research; Parent Education; Family Life Education in the Community, Schools, Colleges; Religion; Cooperative Nursery Schools and Counseling. Each research paper should implement or be directly related to the theme of the Conference.

This article focuses on the research projects in accounting. Last published list of accounting theses appeared in the September, 1941, issue of the journal "The Accounting Review," nearly ten years ago. Comments of a number of members during recent months suggest that there is a considerable demand for information about accounting research currently in progress. The questionnaires called for the classification of titles under eighteen subject headings. The present list is offered in partial fulfillment of that demand. Accounting for Corporate Capital Transactions, Rufus Wixon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Accounting Determination of Income, Joseph A. Silveso, University of Missouri, Missouri. Effect of Inflation on Accounting Literature, Robert H. Shutt, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas. The Effect of the Decline in the Economic Value of the Monetary Unit upon Accounting for Fixed Assets, Raymond Lee Gibbs, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Accounting for Organization Expense, George W. Underwood, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Accounting for the Acquisition and Amortization of Goodwill, Harry Richard Hedlund, State University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa.

Self-administered questionnaire responses of 876 unmarried Catholic students at Iowa State University are used in a study of differential willingness to enter a cross-religious marriage. Factors tested for an association with willingness to marry a non-Catholic were: Students' perception of devoutness of home, mother's religion, father's religion, attendance at Catholic grade school, high school and college, students' self-rating of present devoutness, their frequency of attendance at Mass, Communion and Confession, and their year in college. All the relationships were in the expected direction; five of the eleven were statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to the field of biosciences. Frederick G. Smith has been appointed as the head of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has renamed its School of Dentistry to School of Dental Medicine. The symposium on space suits and human performance will be held in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 1964.

The article focuses on a Memorial Fund Committee, which has been formed in the memory of Paul A. Moyer, Jr. Moyer had been an instructor at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Members of the Memorial Fund Committee includes Edward W. Fox, Raymond O. Rockwood and Sanford H. Elwitt of the Society for French Historical Studies. The author invites the entries or cheques of the people interested in becoming the members of the Committee at the address mentioned in the article.