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The article presents information related to the American Economic Association. John H. Williams of Harvard University has been appointed the chairman of the American Economic Association for the year 1953. Some members of the association who have retired from their profession include Julius B. Bearnson, professor of economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Orval Bennett, professor of business and government at Washington University, St. Louis; Pembroke H. Brown, professor of economics, University of Illinois; and E. C. Stone, professor at University of Pittsburgh. A visual economic laboratory has been established at Columbia University in November 1951. The laboratory had been financed for a year by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and trustees of the Foundation have made an additional grant to cover the budget of the laboratory until November 1953. The Social Science Research Council has announced a new program of stipends and fellowships designed to identify and assist able students at an early stage of their education.