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 The laboratories, staff, and facilities of other divisions of the University are
also available to the station research faculty through many outstanding inter-
disciplinary programs, which provide station support of graduate students in
the physical sciences such as physics and chemistry, as well as in engineering.
With the close relationship that exists between teaching and research, students
are exposed to many engineering and industrial problems normally not encom-
passed in a college program.
 The station receives only a small portion of its operating revenue from the
state. The major support of its research activities is derived from contracts with
government agencies, foundations, and industrial organizations. Large and small
manufacturers avail themselves of the finest engineering research laboratories
in the Southeast. The station has superior facilities and staff in such fields as
microelectronics and integrated circuits, power systems, metallurgy, ceramics,
coastal engineering, soil mechanics, transport phenomena and fluid dynamics,
energy conversion, air and water pollution control, electrochemistry, fast
neutron physics, nuclear rocket propulsion, dynamics and vibrations, commu-
nications, kinetics, ionics, gaseous electronics and plasmas, computer and
information science, and systems analysis, to name a few.

 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS
 The University of Florida is developing a number of interdisciplinary re-
 search centers whose primary responsibility will be to increase knowledge in
 specific fields of study and to apply the knowledge so gained to solve crucial
 problems that society now faces. Among the centers that are already estab-
 lished or whose development is in an advanced stage of planning are the
 following:
 THE BUREAU OF RESEARCH is one of the activities of the College of
 Architecture and Fine Arts. It fosters and encourages research in all areas of
 the building arts and fine arts. It also provides an opportunity for graduate
 students and faculty members to engage in research and cooperate effectively
 in research with other departments and institutions.
 THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS RESEARCH is the research divi-
 sion of the College of Business Administration. A part of the Bureau's work
 is designed to further understanding of the economy of Florida and the
 Southeast. Economic, business, and related research supported by grant and
 contract funds is undertaken in subject areas of interest to the faculty. Grad-
 uate students are involved also in these projects.
 The Bureau publishes two monthly periodicals: Dimensions and Economic
 Leaflets. Through these publications and through monographs, the Bureau
 disseminates the results of research and statistical studies of personal income,
 population, construction, retail sales, employment, and the activities of com-
 mercial banks and savings and loan associations.
 THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CLEARING SERVICE is a research and service
 adjunct of the Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and
 Sciences. It carries on a continuous program of research in public adminis-