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The formal opening of the new PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND was held on November 17th, 18th, and 19th, 1952, at the new Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The first day was devoted to formal exercises dedicating the Institute. The honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on Ralph W. Gerard, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Neurophysiology in the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Physiology, University of Illinois; John von Neumann, E.Ch., Ph.D., D.Sc., Research Professor of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; and Stanley Cobb, M.D., Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School. At the dedication dinner on November 17th, Alan Gregg, M.D., Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, gave an address on Information, Power, and Responsibility.
The second and third days were devoted to scientific meetings on the general topic, Change in Behavior. The specific topic of the second day was Factors Influencing Behavior, and this was chaired by Dr. Ralph W. Gerard; speakers included Dr. Holger Hyden of Gothenburg, Sweden; Dr. J. H. Quastel of Montreal, Canada; Dr. Raphael Lorente de No of New York City; Dr. O. Hobart Mowrer of Urbana, Illinois; and Dr. Stanley Cobb of Boston, Massachusetts. Margaret Mead, Ph.D., of New York City, gave a public lecture entitled An Anthropologist Looks at Contemporary Behavior.
The morning meeting of the third day dealt with Medical Education and Change in Behavior, under the chairmanship of Dr. Alan Gregg. The following speakers participated: Dr. John R. Reid, Palo Alto, California; Dr. Philipp Frank, Boston, Massachusetts; Dr. Thomas Hale Ham, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr.