Cash awards totaling $1400 have been received by six Student Sections of the American Institute of Physics in the second annual competition for grants in support of specific local activities of Student Sections. The awards, made possible by the Bendix Corporation, were given to AIP Student Sections at the following schools:
Johns Hopkins University ($300 for experiments with an ultrasoft x‐ray generator)
Lowell Technological Institute ($50 for rheological investigation of an air vortex apparatus)
Montana State College ($250 for a laser project)
Providence College ($300 for microwave transmission techniques to determine plasma electron density in a plasma produced by an rf plasma torch)
Rose Polytechnic Institute ($150 for a magnetic mirror)
Spring Hill College ($350 for a heliumneon laser)