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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision of the Master of Science Degree in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture, Urbana

(10) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the Master of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture. The proposed changes include an increase in the unit requirements for completion of the non-thesis master's degree from the present 8 units of course work to a minimum of 9 units and an increase in the minimum grade-point average of 3.75 for completion of a thesis or non-thesis master's degree to a minimum of 4.0. T h e changes are intended to ensure that students receiving a master's degree in the Division of Nutritional Sciences will be representative of the quality required by the Division, the College of Agriculture, and the Graduate College. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d .

SOHIO Agreement for Genetic Research on Corn (Exception to the Genera/ Ru/es)

(11) The Standard Oil Company of Ohio ( S O H I O ) has offered to support genetic research on a certain species of corn, the project to be directed by Professor J. W. Dudley in the Department of Agronomy, Urbana. As a condition of its support ($23,000), S O H I O requests an irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use any University-owned patent resulting from the research. Such a requirement is a firm company policy, and the University's acceptance of it requires an exception to Article I I , Section 7(e) of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. The University has previously accepted identical terms from S O H I O as part of a contract covering the S O H I O Center of Excellence Award. The Department of Agronomy and the vice chancellor for research agree that SOHIO's request is acceptable in the present case and recommend that this exception be approved. The University Patent Committee considers the terms reasonable and recommends approval. I concur. O n m o t i o n of D r . D o n o g h u e , 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 .

Contract with Borg-Warner Corporation (Exception to the Genera/ Rules)

(12) A contract for $55,900 with Borg-Warner Corporation, Roy C. Ingersoll Research Center, Des Plaines, Illinois, provides support for the research of Professor G. Jordan Maclay, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chicago. T h e agreement continues the funding of a joint effort between BorgWarner and University scientists to design, fabricate, and test electronic devices used in the natural gas industry. The contract grants the sponsor and its affiliates "an irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive license . . ." to patentable inventions owned by the University and which arise during the course of the sponsored work. Acceptance of these terms requires an exception to Article II, Section 7 ( e ) , of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. It is considered unlikely that the above terms will apply since the work being performed is a joint effort between Borg-Warner and the University. Thus, any inventions resulting would likely be owned jointly by the company and the University, not owned solely by the University. Jointly owned inventions are to be developed under terms to be negotiated following their disclosure. Under these circumstances, the University Patent Committee considered the