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Mr. Reed said that the next item on the agenda for this meeting is the President's Report.
He asked President Todd for his report.

      D.    President's Report

      Before beginning his report, President Todd asked the Board to give a round of
applause for Rachel Watts who was just recently reelected as President of the Student
Body. He said that Ms. Watts did a great job the past year and adds a lot to the Board. He
is really glad to have her back on the Board for another term.

      President Todd called attention to the following items in PR 1:

      U.S. Representative Hal Rogers secured $1 million for a cancer initiative at the
      UK Markey Cancer Center to increase survival rates for lethal cancers. Marty
      Driesler, who was on the Congressman's staff for many years, passed away of
      cancer. She had talked to him about trying to emphasize cancer research in the
      Fifth Congressional District. President Todd reported that a press conference was
      held at Somerset.

      The second annual Diversity Awards ceremony was recently held during the
      celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka,
      and the Diversity Awards winners were announced. The Women's Writer's
      Conference was also held recently.

      The University contributes to NASA initiatives. This is something the University
      has done in collaboration with the Governor's office and the Science and
      Technology Council that Kris Kimmel operates where UK is going to be part of
      the Moon/Mars initiative to have an office that the Science Council will hold
      across from the NASA-Ames Center in California. The University already has
      about $2 million worth of funding in NASA, but this will give a chance to expose
      more of UK's students to NASA and to continue to get additional grants. Scott
      Hubbard, who is a Kentuckian, is the head of NASA/Ames.

      UK now has a winter intersession to help students meet their course needs. This
      is another way to try to implement getting students through college on a better
      time schedule. The size of the freshman class will be increased to 4,000 students.
      That increase brings about additional students in classes, and this intersession will
      allow some students to take classes during this period. This will allow regular
      class sizes to be held down, therefore keeping the students on track with their
      schedules. President Todd expressed appreciation to Provost Mike Nietzel and
      the Senate for their work on the implementing the winter intersession.

      Senator McConnell recently visited campus and gave $11 million for a variety of
      projects - many of those in Agriculture. He secured $1 million for instructional
      technology research where UK has some leading research going on.