University Awarded Stipends of $171,000 For Science Study

Grants totalling $171,000 to the University for support of short-term research were announced by the National Science Foundation yesterday.

Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany.

Additional sums for research for astronomy, zoology, psychology, and bacteriology were granted by the Foundation, giving the University ten of the 43 grants to New England Universities.