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continuing her interesting research on the Slava Project, dedicated to a thorough socio-cultural, historical and folkloristic analysis of this ancient (originally "pagan" and pre-Christian) Serbian religious and family holiday and the conditions of its variously modified persistence in YugoslaIvia and North America. Mr. Thomas Zimmerman, Health Physicist in the Department of Environmental Heath and Safety at Iowa State University in Ames, and member of our Board of Directors, is currently engaged in important research in the field of Health Physics. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS: Tesla Medal: Since the United States' Bicentennial Year 1976, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) has been presenting a Tesla Medal provided by Yugoslavia in recognition of outstanding professional achievement of a member for a particular year. Incidentally, the IEEE is the successor to IRE and AIEE. The National Chairman of the IEEE Award Committee is Mr. S. Harold Gold, Chief Engineer of Southern California Edison Electric and a distinguished member of the Tesla Memorial Society. Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik: Established in 1972 as an extension of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia, the University Center for Postgraduate Studies has exchange programs with 130 other institutions of higher learning, including Oxford, Chicago, California, Heidelberg, Göttingen, Vienna, Rome, Leiden and Brussels. Every university involved in the program has one vote in the Center's Council and each bears the financial burden of its participation, including the cost of instruction, travel and accommodation of its representatives, teachers and students. This Center offers postgraduate studies in several areas of political science, ecocomics, sociology and anthropology, philosophy and humanities. Those interested in the program may write to this address: Interuniverzitetski centar za postdiplomski studij u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia. A Slovenian Booklet on Pupin: Compliments are due to Dr. Vladimir Klemenčič, Professor Rado Genorio, and several other Slovenian editors and writers, to the Institute of Geography at Edvard Kardelj University in Ljubljana and to the Union of Organizations of Technical Culture in Slovenia for preparing and publishing a timely and worthwhile booklet on Mihajlo I. Pupin: The Scientist, The Politician, The Economist (Ljubljana, 1980). This work is a valuable addition to the study of this great Serbian and Yugoslav American scientist, inventor and humanist. The book reflects the result of the Pupin Symposium held in Novi Sad and idvor in 1979. Notes on a Scientific Theory: Mr. Nicholas Kosanovich, natural scientist (physicist), humanist, private scholar and Executive Secretary, U.S.A., of the Tesla Memorial Society, finds the theory of "The Origin of Rotation of Celestial Bodies" by Dr. Pavle Savić, former President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). and Dr. Radivoje Kašanin, noted Serbian mathematician, very interesting. Mr. Kosanovich has written. some notes on this theory which will appear in the following issue of the TMS Journal. 25