Vice-President of University Named Head of Committee For Study of Atomic Energy

Preparing to launch its study of atomic energy, Associated Universities, Inc., the newly-formed group of nine eastern universities, has chosen Edward Reynolds '15, Vice-President of Harvard, as its first president, it was announced by Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Army's Manhattan Project for atomic development, last Friday.

The organization, consisting of Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pensylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale, will operate, under a contract with the government, the new Northeast National Laboratory project for research in nuclear physics and investigation on the applications of atomic energy.

Announcement Follows Meetings

Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, previously declared surplus by the War Department, has been selected as site of the laboratory, and installation of facilities costing more than five million dollars is under way there.

The announcement followed a series of meetings at Columbia University this summer, at which the University was represented by George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; John K. Van Vleck, professor of Mathematical Physics, and Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics.

Northeast National Laboratory is one of three atomic research projects planned by the War Department. The second, the Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, is already in operation, and a third will be selected in the Far West at a future date. Part of the Clinton Engineering Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also be used in the research project.

Program in Operation Next Fall

The program, the main interest of which will be the development of methods by which the vast amounts of atomic energy now wasted may be harnessed, is expected to be in operation by next fall, Groves announced.

Reynolds, who held the post of Brigadier General as Chief of the Medical Supply Service, U. S. Army, during the war, last March was appointed Administrative Vice-President of the University, a position newly-created at that time to assist President Conant in supervising the business and "housekeeping" details of the University.

A former editor of the CRIMSON, Reynolds, a month before his release from service in December, 1945, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work under the Surgeon General in all phases of medical supply.