Notes and News

The following grants were made recently by the Carnegie Corporation of New York: $60,000 to Cornell University for fellowships in industrial psychiatry at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In order to attract young psychiatrists to the labor-management field, Cornell has developed a training program involving both resident study and field experience in industry. Only M.D.‘s with at least two years’ clinical experience in psychiatry will be eligible for appointment to these fellowships. Further information may be secured from Dr. Alexander H. Leighton, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The second grant of $100,000 was made payable over a period of five years, to the University of North Carolina for the development of an interdisciplinary research program at the Institute for Research in Social Science. Further information may be secured from Professor Gordon Blackwell, Director, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In memory of the late Lieutenant Lester N. Hofheimer, his estate has contributed a fund to the American Psychiatric Association for the purpose of providing an annual reward for an outstanding research accomplishment in the field of psychiatry and mental hygiene.

A group consisting of eight Fellows of the Association, known as “The Hofheimer Prize Board,” has been appointed to evaluate research papers and books submitted for consideration. This Board is authorized to award each year, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, a prize in the amount of $1,500, which will be known as “The Hofheimer Prize.”

The conditions are: (1) The award shall apply only to work published within a period of three years prior to the date of the award. (2) The granting of the award will not be confined to Fellows or members of the American Psychiatric Associati