Work of Jewish Scholars Listed in Yale Announcement

The work of eight Jewish students is listed and described in a recent announcement by Yale University of the number of students carrying on research work through grants given by the university. The descriptions are as follows:

Philip Grossman, Ph.D., Yale 1930, of New Haven, Conn., is collating and editing the Chronicle of Joseph Sambari, a study of the history of the Jews in the Middle Ages, published in Alexandria in 1672. Samuel Yochelson, Ph. D., Yale 1930, is studying the effect of muscular work on learning efficiency of the same muscle groups. Joseph Milton Bernstein, B.A., Yale 1928, is studying in France on a Yale Fellowship.

Jakob Levitski, Ph.D., Goettingen, Germany, 1929, comes from his home in Palestine to do research in higher mathematics under the direction of Professor Oystein Ore. In the Department of Psychology, Louis Harold Cohen, Ph.D., Yale 1929, is making an experimental analysis of the so-called automatic associated movements which are the most elementary pattern-reactions which science studying intact systems strives to investigate.

Aaron Raymond Kienholz, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1921, is on leave of absence from the University of Illinois, where he is an associate in botany, and is now carrying on research on tree growth in Osborn Botanical Laboratory and the Yale Forestry School. In psychology Louis Wanger Gellerman, Ph.D., Clark University, 1930, is doing research work with Professor Yerkes on the double alternation problem, studying both chimpanzees and human infants.

Pinchas Romanoff, Ph.D., Dropsie College, 1930, is making a study of Assyrian and other Semitic languages and archaeology, with a view to further archaeological research in Palestine. He has already worked as a member of several such expeditions in Palestine.