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Students from all academic backgrounds who have career
interests in tropical agriculture are encouraged to con-
sider the CTA. The CTA Steering Committee will counsel
individual students into appropriate biological, agricul-
tural, social, and management courses.
 Students in the CTA program are required to demon-
strate proficiency in a second language. A score on the
Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Language Examination of
2.0, or a comparable score on a similar examination, is a
prerequisite to receiving the certificate. While no specific
second language is required, Spanish, French, or Portug-
ese is strongly suggested.
 Experience in a foreign country is not a requisite for the
CTA. It is, however, strongly encouraged. A proposal,
filed at least one semester in advance of foreign work, is
required for credit under the CTA program.
 Research.-The Center provides research grants to fac-
ulty members and their graduate students and assists in the
coordination of interdisciplinary research funded else-
where. Development assistance contracts in agriculture
and related fields frequently have research components.
 Student Support.-Students within the College of Agri-
culture and the School of Forest Resources and Conserva-
tion pursuing a minor in tropical agriculture are eligible
for research grants awarded by the Center through aca-
demic departments.
 Other Activities.-The Center seeks a broad dissemina-
tion of knowledge about tropical agriculture through the
sponsoring of conferences, short courses, and seminars
featuring leading authorities on the tropics; publication of
books, monographs, and proceedings; and through ac-
quisition of materials for the library and the data bank.
 The Women in Agricultural Development Program of
the University of Florida is administered through the
Office of International Programs, IFAS. The program is a
nondegree program in which faculty from many disci-
plines in the social, biological and agricultural sciences
participate. The program supports international agricul-
tural development activities on the part of the Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences, encourages research
about women in agriculture, and provides research and
programming for women in agriculture in the State of
Florida.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

 The University of Florida Marine Laboratory at Sea-
horse Key is located 57 miles west of Gainesville on the
Gulf Coast, 3 miles offshore, opposite Cedar Key. Facili-
ties include a 20x40-foot research and teaching building
and a 10-room residence, with two kitchens and a dining-
lounge, which provides dormitory accommodations for
24 persons. The Laboratory, which owns a 32-foot re-
search vessel equipped for offshore work and several
smaller outboard-powered boats for shallow water and
inshore work, is used for research by graduate students
from the various departments of the University.
 The Center for Sea Turtle Research conducts research
on all aspects of the biology of sea turtles. Researchers at
the Center, in collaboration with students and faculty of
various departments, take an interdisciplinary approach
to address the complex problems of sea turtle biology and
conservation. Scientists from the Center have investigated
questions of sea turtle biology around the world. Long-
term field studies of the Center are primarily conducted at
two research stations in Costa Rica and the Bahamas.


Reproductive biology of green turtles is studied at Tortu-
guero, Costa Rica, the site of the largest nesting colony of
green turtles in the Atlantic. Studies on the biology of three
species of sea turtles are conducted at a natural feeding
area on Great Inagua, Bahamas. For further information,
contact the Director, Center for Sea Turtle Research, 223
Bartram.
 The Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Laboratory (WL) is
the institute for marine biomedical research and biotech-
nology of the University of Florida. Since its founding in
1974, the Whitney Laboratory, near St. Augustine, has
been dedicated to the use of experimental marine biol-
ogy.
 The academic staff of the Laboratory consists of eight
permanent faculty members, with 30 to 40 associates,
students, and visiting scientists. Dr. Michael J. Greenberg
has been the Director since 1981.
 Fields of research at the WL include chemosensory and
visual physiology and biochemistry, synaptology, devel-
opmental and cell biology, toxicology, and peptide phar-
macology. Research animals range phylogenetically from
jellyfish to aquatic vertebrates. The common theme uni-
fying this diversity is a focus on communication between
cells and tissue-the interactions of cell membranes with
signaling molecules.
 Research at the Whitney Laboratory attracts graduate
students and visiting scientists from across the U.S. and
from abroad. Students enroll in the graduate programs of
the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Neuros-
cience, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology, or
Zoology. Their course work (in Gainesville) and their dis-
sertation research (at the Whitney Lab) are guided by
scientists from the WL who are graduate faculty members
of University of Florida teaching departments. An under-
graduate research training program at the Laboratory is
sponsored by both private and governmental agencies.
 The Laboratory is situated on a narrow barrier island,
with both the Atlantic Ocean and the Intercoastal Water-
way within a few hundred feed of the facility. The campus
is in the town of Marineland, about 18 miles south of St.
Augustine, and 80 miles east of Gainesville.
 For further information, contact the Scientific Director,
C.V. Whitney Laboratory, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St.
Augustine, Florida 32086-8623, telephone (904) 471-
0684.

CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS

 The Center, with the participation of the faculty of the
Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engi-
neering, is concerned with graduate education and re-
search in the theoretical, experimental, and computa-
tional aspects of problems in the borderline between
chemistry and physics. Graduate students join one of the
above departments and follow a special curriculum. The
student receives, in addition to the Ph.D. degree, a Certifi-
cate in Chemical Physics. For information, contact the
Director, Williamson Hall.

ENGINEERING: STATE CENTER

 The College of Engineering has established an off-
campus graduate engineering education center at Eglin
Air Force Base where qualified personnel may enroll in
courses leading to the master's degree. For admission to
the graduate program, the prospective student must file an