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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 14

Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences endorse the recommendation. The acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Head, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Urbana

(6) T h e chancellor a t Urbana-Champaign, after consultation with the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the appointment of John E. Zehr, presently professor of physiology and division chairman of physiology in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, as head of the department beginning August 21, 1988, on an academic year service basis. An appropriate salary adjustment will be submitted with the 1988-89 budget. Dr. Zehr will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. He will succeed Dr. Dennis E. Buetow who asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment. T h e nomination is made on recommendation of a search committee 1 and after consultation with faculty members of the department. T h e acting director of the School of Life Sciences and the Executive Committees of the School of Life Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences endorse the recommendation. T h e acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Head, Department of Statistics, Urbana

(7) T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, after consultation with the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the appointment of Jerome Sacks, presently professor of statistics and chairman, Statistics Division, as head of the Department of Statistics* beginning April 14, 1988, on an academic year service basis at an annual salary of $69,070. Dr. Sacks will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. T h e nomination is made after consultation with faculty members of the department. T h e Executive Committee of the college supports the recommendation. The acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s c o n f i r m e d .

Chairperson, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine at Peoria

(8) T h e chancellor a t Chicago has recommended the appointment of David A. Spiegel, presently associate professor of clinical psychiatry and acting chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine at Peoria, as chairperson of the department, effective April 15, 1988, on a twelvemonth service basis, at an annual salary of $95,000. Dr. Spiegel will continue to hold the rank of associate professor on indefinite tenure. H e will succeed Dr. Cornelis B. Bakker who resigned March 19, 1984.

1 Dwayne C. Savage, professor of microbiology, chairman; Philip M. Best, associate professor of physiology in the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; Floyd Dunn, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of biophysics in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Albert S. Feng, associate professor of physiology; James _ £. Heath, professor of physiology and biophysics; fienita Katzenellenbogen, professor of physiology in the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. 1 The Board of Trustees approved the change from a Division of Statistics within the Department of Mathematics to a separate Department of Statistics on April 18, 1985.