Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 496]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1. Chamber/Dish-—-Michael G. Gabridge, associate professor of microbiology in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Urbana, inventor; developed with support from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. University Patents, Inc., reported that this discovery had limited patentability but potential marketability. The University Patent Committee recommends transfer of the University's rights to the University of Illinois Foundation for development, subject to the rights of the sponsor. 2. Bovine Dental Radiography Cassette — Jonathan L. Stowater, associate professor of veterinary clinical medicine, and John J. Francis, former graduate student in animal science, Urbana, inventors. University Patents, Inc., reported that this discovery had little patentability and little marketability. T h e University Patent Committee recommends retention of shop rights and release of other patent rights to the inventors. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

Request to Transfer State Property at Manteno, Medical Center

(11) The Illinois Department of Administrative Services has advised that surplus land, currently assigned to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, is available near Manteno, Illinois. The site consists of approximately 320 acres of relatively level, top quality agricultural land with a few minor structures of no value to the University. If the land is transferred to the University, the Medical Center campus will develop the site for programs relating to animal holding, animal breeding, and related support functions of the Biologic Resources Laboratory; and pharmaceutical plant growing, processing, and related support functions of the College of Pharmacy. Additional space is required to increase the animal holding and breeding programs of the Biologic Resources Laboratory, which are now located principally at the Medical Center. In lieu of expansion of the facilities on the campus, the Manteno site with adequate land area is preferred, which will result in lower construction costs and will allow for the initiation of certain programs which would otherwise be impossible to develop. This site would also permit the continuation and expansion of a long-term project for the Colle.ee of Pharmacy to establish cultivation conditions for the growth of medicinal plants in the United States. 1 The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the I'linois Department of Administrative Services be requested to transfer to the University the aforementioned 320 acres of land located near Manteno, subject to further action, as required, by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois General Assembly. O n m o t i o n of M r . V e l a s q u e z , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Report of Rejection of Bids; and Contracts for Chicago lllini Union Addition Recreation Facility, Medical Center

(12) Bids were received on July 9 and 12, 1979, for the construction of the Chicagolllini Union Addition and Recreation Facility at the Medical Center campus. T h e bids exceeded the funds available. Pursuant to the provisions of Article I I , Section 4(k) ( 2 ) , of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure, the bids were rejected, and the p r e s d r n t now reports their rejection. The bid documents were revised to reduce the scope of work, and bids for

1 This program is presently conducted at the Pharmacognosy and Horticulture Field Station at Lisle-Downers Grove and on growing plots leased from the Morton Arboretum. The field station will be available for the use of the "Downers Grove Extension Center Development" at the time it is vacated by the college. The center is a project included in the Food Production Research. Program (Food for Century I I I ) .