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Allan S. Douglas helps a student, William Franks, use an electron microscope. Original caption: "Electron Microscope Aids Chemical Engineering Teaching. A $150,000 Electron Microscope Facility and adjoining Instrument Laboratory have been installed in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to increase the scope and depth of department research and teaching. The National Science Foundation made a $36,000 equipment grant toward the facility and the balance came from industry gifts and M.I.T.'s own funds. William Franks, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Franks of (5 Kenmar Terrace) Quincy, Ill., a 1966 graduate of Quincy High School and a member of a freshman seminar in chemical engineering, is shown using one of two electron microscopes in the facility under the supervision of Professor Allan S. Douglas. Small freshman seminars in advanced topics and representing virtually all M.I.T. departments are offered first year students at M.I.T. each fall. This year's freshmen were offered choices from among 42 seminars, most taught by senior faculty. Dr. Edwin R. Gilliland, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, is coordinator of the Freshman Seminar Program." Original credit line: MIT Photo.