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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Resolution Authorizing the Filing of Application for Annual Interest Grant Program Under Section 306, Title I I I , of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 WHEREAS, the U.S. Commissioner of Education is authorized under the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 to grant funds to reduce the cost of borrowing for the construction, rehabilitation, and improvement of certain academic and related facilities; and WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the governing body of the University of Illinois, hereinafter called the Applicant, is cognizant of the conditions under which such grants are made available and approved for payment to an applicant; and WHEREAS, it is the sense of the governing body of the Applicant that it is desirable to apply for an annual interest grant under Section 306, Title III, of the aforementioned act for the project described as follows: Classroom-Office and Student Services Building at the Chicago Circle Campus Now, therefore, he it Resolved, that an application for the project described is authorized and directed to be filed with the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, United States of America; and be it further Resolved, that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois designates James E. Osborn, Director of Business Affairs, Chicago Circle campus, as the officer authorized to file the application and act as the representative of this Board in connection with said application. Signed

EARL M. HUGHES, President THE BOARD or TRUSTEES or THE UNIVERSITV OF ILLINOIS

, 1972

On motion of Mr. Neat, the foregoing resolution was adopted.

RECOMMENDATIONS O F T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE

(21) The University Patent Committee, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, submits the following recommendations relating to patentable inventions by members of the staff. I concur in these recommendations. 1. Recirculating Water Bath — James L. Wood, Chief Electronics Engineer for the School of Life Sciences, Urbana-Champaign, and George Offutt, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physiology, Urbana-Champaign, inventors. This is an inexpensive fluid recirculating system that can be produced for a few cents and will replace systems costing many hundreds of dollars. The novel features are: (1) Fluid is pumped by the introduction of air bubbles into a pumping chamber. The air bubbles rise in a capillary tube and the fluid is trapped between bubbles by surface tension. (2) The fluid level in the bath chamber is controlled by the amount of fluid in the system. (3) The flow rate can be precisely controlled by changing the altitude of the bath chamber with respect to the reservoir chamber. University Patents, Inc., reports that this invention would have a limited market and further questions the patentability. Accordingly, the Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be released to the inventors. 2. Slit Illuminator System and Contact Lens Support Ring for Use with Operating Microscope — Gholam A. Peyman, Research Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Medical Center. Eric S. Ericson, Senior Medical Student, Medical Center, Donald R. May, Senior Medical Student. Medical Center, and Alfred Nelken, Instrumentation Engineer, Medical Center, inventors. This system employs a conventional slit source of illumination from an American