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USC chemistry From Staff Reports cor A USC associate professor of chemistry at I i? i -i - _ - - lias uccn cnosen 10 receive a Presidential I Young Investigator Award sponsored by the Slo National Science Foundation. he Steven Burke will receive the newly in- mil itiated award, which provides cooperative tioi research support for outstanding young science and engineering faculty members. The award carries a $25,000 foundation grant to support Burke's research, plus 1 dollar-for-dollar matching money for U.? research funding obtained from industrial dis< sources up to 3> 100,000 a year. The award is ton renewable for five years. 1 The Presidential Young Investigator con Awards were announced this week by the ass< White House Office of Science and cur: Technology Policy. stiti Burke was one of 200 scientists selected J from 1,500 nominess nationwide and is one poli of 60 persons chosen in math and physical por sciences, a foundation official said. ty t He has received national recognition for whi his work on synthetic organiccoinpoundsthat T may be tested as anti-cancer agents. He has net! ^1^^ A 1 ? ... - at?u ucvciopea compounds that have been Sah discussed as "channel blockers." Inte Channel blockers can be used to relieve the and symptoms of angina pectoris, to manage Car congestive heart failure and to treat certain Col types of rapid heart rate. T Burke joined the USC faculty in 1978 after Cen Greyho Goai Greyht A r*fli Si This spring break, if you and you friends are thinking about headir the slopes or the beaches ? or ji home for a visit ? 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Int professor to rect npleting his doctoral studies in chemistry " the University of Pittsburgh. n< -le was recently awarded an Alfred P. ===== an Foundation Research Fellowship, and has received grants totalling more than $1 A BEAC lion from the National Science Founda- Saturday at i and the National Institutes of Health. the state ch Sclerosis So Spring Fe bands, incl fHE AUTHORS of a study critical of Poor Souls, >. foreign policy in Central America will Cooking an< :uss the politics of that region at 8 p.m show sponsc ight in the Gambrell Hall Auditorium. follow the c 'he session is free to the public and will be Radio st* ducted by Morris Blachman, a USC event with Dciate professor of international studipc PVant A. i i?n A $-jniw rently on leave at the Foreign Service In- appearing al ate of the U.S. State Department. awarding pr oining Blachman will be a group of Coors of itical scientists whose work will be incor- festival. ated in "Confronting Revolution: Securihrough Diplomacy in Central America," ch will be published this spring. he other panel members will include Keni Sharpe of Swarthemore College, an El A ROLL1 /ador expert; Phillip Shepherd of Florida two USC orj :rnational University, a Honduras expert; Wednesday i Lars Schultz of the University of North Andrews, olina and Robert Trudeau of Providence The I JSP lege, Guatemala experts. tion and the he public session will conclude the USC Phi fraternit tral America forum. will leave frc und's Spring Break iiTii IJ W11U c Hind goe: 4! 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