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      UK and Cardinal Hill have announced a joint research appointment. A $2 million grant
      from Cardinal Hill to UK in 1999, along with $2 million in matching funds from the state's
      Research Challenge Trust Fund, has made possible the appointment of three shared faculty
      positions in Neurorehabilitation Research. A press conference was held last week to
      announce that UK professor Joe Springer has accepted the Cardinal Hill Endowed Chair in
      Neurorehabilitation Research. It will be a $4 million chair, and it will allow UK to work
      very closely with Cardinal Hill in its area of Neurorehabilitation Research.

      A press conference was recently held to announce a Lethal Cancer Project in Kentucky's 5th
      Congressional District. This is a $1 million earmark the University received with the help of
      Congressman Hal Rogers for the Marty Driesler Lethal Cancer Project. Dr. Al Cohen, who
      heads the Markey Cancer Center, and other UK physicians will be involved with this
      project. They will be working with the community physicians in the 5th Congressional
      District to try to profile that population to understand why they lead the nation in lethal
      cancer. He said that he is very proud of the outreach of the Markey Cancer Center.

      A $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy was recently awarded to Secat Inc.,
      a Kentucky aluminum research and testing firm to improve energy efficiency in the
      aluminum industry. There are 142 facilities that will benefit from this grant with more than
      $5 billion in shipments of aluminum.

      UK had a two-day coal conference that was very well attended. It was a joint effort with
      Cinergy when Cinergy was celebrating its 10-year anniversary. Jim Rogers, who is a UK
      graduate, and Dr. Baldwin were involved in putting together a plan for a Coal 2020
      Conference. Leaders from across the nation attended and talked about the future of coal
      from an environmental perspective and a production perspective. Governor Ernie Fletcher
      was there to kick off the Conference.

      The National Institutes of Health presented a $3.7 million grant to UK to complete the
      neuroscience research space on the fourth floor of the Biomedical/Biological Sciences
      Research Building (BBSRB). Dr. Baldwin and Dr. Del Collins are to be congratulated for
      bringing this $3.7 million grant to UK to complete the BBSRB open space.

      The Sloan Foundation has established a UK Center for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry.
      Secat, a consortium aluminum company, applied for a Sloan Foundation Center grant. The
      Sloan Foundation selects Centers of Excellence around the country to try to keep the country
      in the manufacturing business. The new center joins 23 other Sloan Centers for Industry
      housed at 15 universities across the country, including MIT, Harvard University, Carnegie
      Mellon University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Sloan Foundation initially
      provided $300,000, the State of Kentucky and the Governor himself provided $150,000, and
      $360,000 was provided by the aluminum industry to establish this Center.

      President Todd asked the Board to review the other great announcements and achievements
of the faculty, staff, and students in PR 1.