Research Money

That unusually shrewd president of a university, Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, last week set going a sure money maker for his school. It is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which will commercialize and exploit all patentable scientific developments made at the university. Profits will finance further research.

Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay -- because he refused to let business hamper his research work--royalties to the research foundation.

To direct this big university business Professor Harry Luman Russell 64, resigned the deanship of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture, post he had filled for 23 years

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