responsibility for granting advanced 

 degrees in genetics under the aegis of 

 the Graduate School. Many of the 

 graduate students in genetics have 

 received financial support from the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 contributed to the total research effort 

 of the College. 



The concept of regional research, 

 begun in the 1950s, took on greater 

 significance during this era. For New 

 Hampshire, this meant the Northeast 

 region, and a percentage of Hatch funds 

 was earmarked for this purpose. Sci- 

 entists in the region submitted pro- 

 posals to their Station Directors ad- 

 dressing themselves to a pressing 

 problem of interstate or regional con- 

 cern. An Administrative Advisor was 

 appointed for the project and a Tech- 

 nical Committee formed consisting of 



scientists representing institutions in 

 the Northeast interested in cooperat- 

 ing in the project. The Technical Com- 

 mittee developed goals and objectives 

 for their experiments, and assigned 

 responsibilities to members who met 

 annually to review progress. 



Later, Congress authorized Spe- 

 cial Grants for selected individual 

 projects which identified new prob- 

 lem areas and fresh research opportu- 

 nities. Examples were water resources 

 development and human nutrition. 



The first medium for publication 

 of results of original research by the 

 Station was the Experiment Station 

 Bulletin series. By 1964, according to 

 W. E. McGrath, Branch Librarian, 

 Biological Sciences Library (1956- 

 1964], the Station was issuing 17 dif- 

 ferent series, but the majority of pa- 



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