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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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37. ANTHONY P. YOUNG, assistant professor of chemistry, beginning September 1, 1982 ( 1 ) , at an annual salary of $25,000 (on leave of absence without pay academic year 1982-83).

Administrative Staff

38. CAROLYN £ . CARLSON, acting dean of the College of Nursing and professor of medical-surgical nursing, Health Sciences Center, beginning October 15, 1982 (NY;AY), at an annual salary of $50,000. 39. JOHN B. CLAAR, acting dean of the College of Agriculture and professor of agricultural economics, Urbana-Champaign, effective October 8, 1982 ( N Y ; AY), at an annual salary of $63,000. 40. ANNE LYNN PORTER, assistant dean of the College of Nursing on 51 percent time, and assistant professor in the College of Nursing, Health Sciences Center, beginning September 1, 1982 (NY51 ;1Y), at an annual salary of $15,300. 41. CECILIA M. ROBERTS, assistant dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Curriculum, College of Medicine at Peoria, Health Sciences Center, beginning October 1, 1982 ( N Y ) , at an annual salary of $35,500. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , these a p p o i n t m e n t s were confirmed.

Appointment to MacArthur Professorship, Urbana

(6) In September 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded the University of Illinois an endowment of $1.2 million, the income of which would support a John D . MacArthur Chair. The terms of this award left the designation of the campus at which the Chair would be located to the discretion of the president of the University who designated the Urbana-Champaign campus as the site for the initial appointment. The departmental affiliation was to be determined by the campus. During the past several months, a comprehensive screening process for the MacArthur Professorship has been underway. It included formal consultation with professors in the Center for Advanced Study. It was determined that the appointment should be made only to an internationally recognized scholar and that the appointment should give promise of making a substantial impact on the department involved as well as the campus as a whole. This could be realized best in a department already recognized as having unusual strength. Formal proposals for the MacArthur Chair were received from fourteen selected academic departments, with final review by a search committee comprised of the chancellor, the vice chancellor for academic affairs, and the vice chancellor for research. The process has led to the selection of a distinguished scholar in physics. The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the appointment of Dr. Anthony J. Leggett, presently professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, England, as professor of physics and John D . MacArthur, on indefinite tenure, beginning November 1, 1982. Dr. Leggett, born in 1938, has achieved exceptional recognition for his work in the theory of condensed matter. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of England; he was awarded the Maxwell Prize in 1975 and last year the Fritz London Memorial Award for "outstanding contributions to research in low temperature physics," and the Simon Memorial Prize of the British Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to the theory of superfluid helium-3." These latter awards have been won by one other scientist, and Dr. Leggett is the only individual to be so recognized in a single year. Because of prior commitments, Dr. Leggett is unable to assume formally the MacArthur Professorship until August 21, 1983. Therefore, it is recommended that he be appointed effective November 1, 1982, at an academic year salary of $67,000, with approval for a leave of absence without pay through August 20, 1983.