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Campus Headlines
An Important Milk Discovery
  The University last month announced plans for public
patent on a process for making a greatly improved concen-
trated sterilized milk-a canned product which will keep its
fresh milk characteristics for several months with or without
refrigeration.
  For the housewife, the new product has several advan-
tages. It can be used like cream on cereals and desserts, or
as a beverage, depending upon the amount of water added.
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A Lifetime Research Grant
  The American Cancer Society has awarded a lifetime salary
grant, valued at $392,296, to Dr. James M. Price, 36-year-old
associate professor of surgery and cancer research specialist
at the University Medical School.
  The new type of ACS grant will support Dr. Price in can-
cer research for the remainder of his active medical practice.
   The grant, first of two in the nation under a new program
starting this year, is the ACS-Charles Hayden Foundation
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A Brand New Observatory
   Construction of the dome atop the University of Wiscon-
 sin's new research observatory makes the goal of finishing the
 project in 1957 now seem certain.
   "'I've always said we're going to look through our new
 telescope by Christmas," recalled Prof. A. E. Whitford,
 chairman of the UW astronomy department.
   The new center for advanced astronomical study, located
 on a 53-acre hill-top site near Pine Bluff, was started in the
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Wisconsin Alumnus, December, 1957
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