CONANT APPOINTS ROMER, VAN VLECK TO FACULTY POSTS

As President Conant's first outside appointment to a full professorship, Alfred Sherwood Romer, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, has been elected professor of Biology. It was also announced at the same time that John Hasbrouck Van Vieck of the University of Wisconsin will become associate professor of Mathematics and Physics. Both appointments will become effective September 1.

Professor Romer received an A. B. from Amherst in 1917, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1921. During his service as instructor of Anatomy at Columbia and as a member of the department of Comparative Anatomy at the Natural History Museum, associate professor and professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, he became an authority on reptiles and amphibians of the Permian period. He published two books in 1933 on the subject.

Dr. Van Vleck, the well-known physicist, graduated from Wisconsin in 1920, and took his Masters' and Doctor's degrees here. After serving an instructorship here, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Leland Stanford, and finally at Wisconsin. He has done research work on the quantum theory and is the author of many scientific pamphlets. His duties next year will be divided between mathematics, quantum mathematics, and his research work.