That unusually shrewd president of a university, Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, last week set going a sure money maker for his school. It is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which will commercialize and exploit all patentable scientific developments made at the university. Profits will finance further research.
Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food...
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