Office of the President
April 5, 1988



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                  UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIPS
Recommendation: that the Board of Trustees approve the naming of
Professor Daniel Nelson, Department of Political Science; Professor
Robert Dickson, Department of Biochemistry; Professor Jesse Sisken,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Professor Mina Miller,
Department of Music, as University Research Professors for 1988-89.
Backcround: In April 1976, the University Senate recommended to the
President the establishment of one-year Research Professorships and
that priority he given to the goal of establishing permanent Research
Professorships as funds became available. At its meeting in May 1976,
the University of Kentucky Research Foundation voted to support
one-year Research Professorships to be activated in the Fall of 1977.
The first Research Professors were named by the Board of Trustees at
its meeting on Mlarch 8, 1977.
The purpose of the University Research Professorships is to enhance
and encourage scholarly research productivity, provide an opportunity
for concentrated research effort for selected faculty members,
recognize outstanding research achievement by members of its faculty,
emphasize its research function, and to publicize its research
accomplishments in order that the research function of the University
be appropriately recognized and understood.



Action taken:  Approved



Date:



Disapproved

, 1988



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