Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1962 [PAGE 1160]

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1961]

With Whom Forest Service U.S.D.A. Total With Whom E. T. Drewitch (Plastering) Total

UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S Amount to be Paid by the University $2 500 00 $ 1 500 00

1157

Effective Date July 1&. 1961

Purpose Cooperative collection of data on raindrop size at the Coweeta Hydrologtc Laboratory

Adjustments Made in 1961-62 Cost-Pius Contracts

Purpose Seventeen items: J329.18 deduct to $4,610.00 Amount $7 029 81 $ 7 029 81 Date August and September, 1961

This report was received for record.

NAMING O F UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AIRPORT (13) A Committee which has been raising money for a "Lectureship and Student Grant Fund" in memory of the late Dr. Arthur Cutts Willard, engineer, teacher, scientist, administrator, and President of the University of Illinois from 1934 to 1946, has recommended that the University of Illinois Airport be named for him. President Willard took the administrative initiative in the establishment of the Airport and also the Institute of Aeronautics, now the Institute of Aviation. A number of the members of the faculty and alumni have supported this request. After consultation with the Executive Committee of the University Council, this recommendation was submitted with my concurrence to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the Board of Trustees. The Committee is prepared to support the recommendation. Accordingly, I recommend that the Airport be named: University of Illinois — Willard Airport. This name is consistent with the requirements of the Federal Aviation Agency in the naming of airports which have been constructed in total or in part with the aid of federal funds. A fitting bronze marker will also be installed in the Terminal Building dedicating the functions of the Airport as "The Arthur Cutts Willard Memorial Air Field." O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s 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 . MATERIALS SCIENCE LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (14) At the request of the President of the University, the Vice-President and Comptroller presented the following report: A Materials Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois has been under consideration for some time. There is need for improvement of materials used in the national space and weapons programs, and consequently the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission are interested in the establishment of several laboratories throughout the United States for research in the field. The science of materials is basic for large areas of engineering technology. Progress in the electrical, chemical, metallurgical, and ceramic industries is dependent to a great degree upon the basic research that leads to improvement in the materials essential to these industries. Research on materials in the University can be combined with the systematic education of graduate students to carry on the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in this field. The University of Illinois is one of the principal academic centers in the United States devoted to research and education in the science of materials. A feature of the proposed new program will be its interdisciplinary nature, drawing initially from five departments: Ceramics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and Physics. The University has distinguished faculties in these departments and the proposed laboratory will enable them to collaborate in work on problems in a manner that is not feasible at present. The additional space provided by this facility will permit an approximate doubling of research on the basic properties of materials at the University, and of the numbers of scientists which it can train through graduate education in this field. The results of the research and the men trained to carry on research will be available to the industrial and government laboratories of Illinois and of the nation, thus advancing industrial progress and promoting national welfare.