Eight University faculty members received Ford Foundation grants of $5,500 each for research in fields related to human behavior. The Foundation awarded a total of 45 grants to scholars from 15 universities.
The grants, totaling $247,500, are an important part of the Foundation's Behavioral Sciences Division program. The program is designed to "support scientific activities which attempt to increase knowledge of factors which influence or determine human conduct."
The following faculty members received grants: Talcott Parsons '28, professor of Sociology; Robert A. Sears '39, professor of Education and Child Psychology; Samuel Stouffer '23, professor of Sociology; Clyde K. M. Kluckholm '36, professor of Anthropology; Richard L. Solomon '39, associate professor of Social Psychology; Robert F. Bales '42, assistant professor of Social Relations; James S. Duesenberry, assistant professor of Economics.
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