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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The recommendation is made with the concurrence of the dean of the Graduate College, campus Research Board, Graduate College Executive Committee, and the vice president for academic affairs. Subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, I recommend the establishment of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development as a special unit of the Graduate College at Urbana-Champaign as described under the provisions of Article V, Sec. 3a, of the University of Illinois Statutes.1 O n m o t i o n of M r . L o g a n , 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 .

Recommendations of the University Patent Committee

(27) The University Patent Committee has recommended the following actions concerning inventions made at the University of Illinois. (Background information has been sent to the Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees.) 1. Visible and Ultraviolet Lasers Based on Excimer Transitions in the Homonuclear Halogens. Inventors: James Gary Eden, professor, and Kevin P. Killeen, formerly research assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana. Developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Navy. University Patents, Inc., has reported that it does not elect to subject this invention to the terms of its servicing agreement with the University. Despite extensive experimentation, the inventors were unable to overcome several problems which would have enhanced the claims of the invention. Additionally, most applications for the invention would be in the military field. For these reasons and owing to an imminent publication bar, the University Patent Committee recommends that the University release its rights to the sponsor, the U.S. Navy. 2. New Fluoronitride Glasses in Zirconium-Metal-F-N-Systems. Inventors: Subhash H. Risbud, associate professor, and Wallace L. Vaughn, research assistant, Department of Ceramic Engineering, Urbana. Developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy. University Patents, Inc., has reported that it does not elect to subject this invention to the terms of its servicing agreement with the University. No commercial interest in the invention was generated as a result of U P I ' s marketing efforts, and consequently it was considered that patent protection was not appropriate. T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the University release its rights to the sponsor, the U.S. Department of Energy. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . L o g a n , 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 .

Application for Federal Assistance, Student Residence Hall, Chicago

(28) To meet a deadline, the vice president for business and finance and comptroller has filed with the U.S. Department of Education an application for Federal financial assistance of $668,986 for air conditioning and upgrading the electrical system of the Student Residence Hall at the Chicago campus (Health Sciences Center). (The possible availability of Federal assistance was reported and discussed at the June 1984 meeting of the Board of Trustees.) I now recommend that the Board of Trustees ratify, approve, and confirm his actions in filing the application on behalf of the University. O n m o t i o n of M r . L o g a n , 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 .

Article V., Sec. 3a — On recommendation of tlie campus Research Board, and of the Executive Committee and the dean of the Graduate College, with approval by the president and the chancellor, the Board of Trustees may create special units of the Graduate College for the purpose of carrying on or promoting research in areas which are broader than the responsibility of any one department. Any such unit may be abolished by similar action.

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