Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studiesadmitted its thirty‐eighth sponsoring institution, Texas Woman's University of Denton, Tex., at its annual council meeting in October. Robert T. Lagemann of Vanderbilt University continues as chairman of the Council, Eric Rodgers of the University of Alabama was elected to the one‐year post of vice chairman, and the following were elected to the Institute's Board of Directors: Paul M. Gross of Duke University. Ronald Bamford of the University of Maryland, H. Stephen Weens of the Emory University Medical School, Jesse W. Beams of the University of Virginia, and Russell S. Poor of the University of Florida. The Board re‐elected Dr. Gross as president of the Institute, Louis A. Pardue of Virginia Polytechnic Institute as vice president, and William G. Pollard (executive director of ORINS) as treasurer. The Institute, a nonprofit educational corporation of southern colleges and universities, was established in 1946, with fourteen sponsoring institutions. The primary concern of ORINS is the operation and administration of educational, research, and teaching programs under direct contract with the US Atomic Energy Commission.