Taiwan student is only woman in Plant Industries Department

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Taiwan student
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Aubr Chen of Tali>an La iho only woman friudcnt in SIU's Dcpinrncm of Plant Indus- irlea,
[fl her Evo yetrB of Hudy In Ihc "mAD'« land" of (he dc- partmcm, MlaaCbcnlua found Ihf-rQ arc plenty of rcitcarch projcda Ln plane Indujffrlea which a woimn can cotuIikI in [he taboraEory,
Formerly a honiculturt: «tkjdem ar National TaLwan UnlvcraUy   In   Taipei.   Mlia
Cbeti haa concentrated on j ¦ludy of the cffeci of n|in>- ffm on the cell alic and cell morpholo^ of com. alncc ahe caipo here ai a gr^tluatc otu- denf In January, 1967,
"I never touched on this field of nudy before comLnjt to STU," ahe aald. "There la not much com grown In my home country,'
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It Ib a nev rield of Gxudy for ¦ Bfudent from the Gub- trtvplcal land of Taiwan. Her imercA Jn thla subject mainly la atimulated by the agricul- tural environment of Southern DtlnoLa and encouraRcd by her academic adviser, Joseph Vavra, professor of plani In- duarrlet.
She has faceO various dlf- flculTlcB in che process of research. For ciample, Mlsa Chen said It In physically un¬ feasible for a woman to iivort hours on the farrr* (o coUed materials,
"With the htlpof Prof.Vav- ra and fellow studcnis^ [ have solved most of the problen^s," she said with a smile, vhlch rarely is jbsent from her face.
Nearly finishing her re¬ search. Miss Chen has found Ihat   there  are  Indications of
correlation   l>etwe*n   the   a-
mcnunt of nitrogen and the cell sUe and cell morphology. But she Insists chat she will not "Jump \o th- conclusion," un¬ til the whole prolect Is com- plcied.
She hop«a io complete all requirements for a master's degree In plant Indufttrles In June, bul tn continue her study In thla area.
Her faitiJIv bomc: la In Tal-