Harvard Receives $8000 HEW Grant For Mine Study

The Department of Geological Sciences confirmed Monday that it has received a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Health. Education and Welfare (HEW), to study mining and mineral fuel conservation.

Bernhard Kummel, chairman of the department, said Steven Maxwell, an incoming first year graduate student and a graduate of Earlham College, would receive the grant Parnell McFarlane, department secretary, said, however, that she has not received Maxwell's acceptance yet.

The grant is part of $1.5 million in HEW funds alloted for energy research in 1975-76. A total of 180 graduate students in forty institutions seeking advanced degrees in domestic mining or mineral and mineral fuel conservation will share the rest of the money.

Of the $8.450 grant, Harvard will keep $4.500 to cover Maxwell's tuition and fees. He will receive a $3,000 stipend and an additional $950 allowance for dependents and travel expenses.

Harvard applied for three HEW fellowships but received only one. Heinrich D. Holland, professor of Geology, said the grants were prorated according to the size of the universities' requests and the amount of available funds.

Holland said Maxwell, who has done a lot of work in geochemistry and the economics of geology, was "the most obvious" choice for the grant.