Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 1117]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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83. University of Illinois Foundation, $400 for research on the cytogenetics of corn. 84. United States Public Health Service: a. $14,850 to determine the synthesis and maintenance of intracellular enzymes, in the Department of Bacteriology, for one year beginning July 1, 1951. b. $1,458 to determine the mechanism of action of gonadotrophs hormones on the ovary, in the Department of Animal Science, for one year beginning March

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c- $3,155 for an icological, morphological, physiological comparative study of diphyllobothrim in North America for differentiating species infecting man from these infecting fish-eating birds, in the Department of Zoology, for the period June 1, 1951, through June 30, 1952. 85. Wilson and Company, Chicago, $575 to support a study of per cent utilization of calcium and phosphorus by man from bone phosphate, under the direction of Professor F. R. Steggerda, Department of Physiology. Total, Funds for Graduate Fellowships, Scholarships, and Research $156,887.47 C. Gifts of Equipment, Works of Art, and Library Materials 86. Mr. Robert Allerton, Hawaii, portraits for Allerton House. 87. Art Institute of Chicago, sculpture for Robert Allerton Park. 88. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois, equipment for the Department of Electrical Engineering ($600). 89. Melvin L. Enger Portrait Fund, $1,421.72 for books for the Engineering Library. 90. Illinois Seed Dealers Association, Inc., $2,500 for a trailer to be used by the Department of Agronomy. 91. O. A. Leutwiler Award Committee, murals in fresco to decorate the walls of the south entrance of the Mechanical Engineering Building in honor of O. A. Leutwiler, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design, Emeritus, and former head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 92. Estate of Cassandra A. Miller, silver three-piece tea service bequeathed by the late Mrs. George A. Miller. 93. North Electric Manufacturing Company, Galion, Ohio, six individual strips containing ten push buttons numbered 0-9 ($300). 94. Sangamo Electric Company, Springfield, 5,700 condensers to the Department of Electrical Engineering ($2,800). 95. University of Illinois Foundation, $8,500 for the purchase of band instruments and $5,500 for the purchase of an electron microscope for the Department of Chemistry, and especially for Professor George L. Clark's researches. 96. Western Electric Company, New York, New York, miscellaneous electrical parts to the Department of Electrical Engineering ($100). 97. Warren L. Wood, PlainfieM, Illinois, an oil painting "There Goes Grange." Total, Gifts of Equipment, Works of Art, and Library Materials.. .$ 21,721.72 Total, Urbana-Champaign $210,800.36 For the Chicago Professional Colleges A. Funds Received from Private Industry, Foundations, Other Organizations and Government Agencies for Research and Graduate Study 98. Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois: a. $1,000 for research on effect of amines in experimental renal and other experimental hypertensions, in the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, under the supervision of Dr. George E. Wakerlin, for the period April I, 1951, to October I, 1951. b. $3,000 for a study on the clinical evaluation of anticonvulsant substances, in the Department of Psychiatry, under the supervision of Dr. F. A. Gibbs, for one year beginning January I, 1951. c. $2,000 for a study of antimalarial drugs in rheumatoid arthritis, in the Department of Medicine, under the supervision of Dr. I. E. Steck, for the period January I, 1951, through June 30, 1951.