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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 21

housed, such rate to be based upon the cost per patient day in the Research and Educational Hospitals. (The present cost is $20.86 a day.) This rate will be revised from time to time to provide full reimbursement to the University for the expenses of operation other than the salaries of the personnel for which separate provisions will be made as indicated above, f. T h e agreement will be for five years and may be terminated at the end of any year of this period by either party upon ninety days' written notice to the other. The Respirator Center would also be used in the resident training program of the Department of Pediatrics, in teaching junior and senior medical students as a part of their training in pediatrics, for postgraduate work, and for periodic short courses or conferences. Approval of this project has been recommended by all University officials concerned. I recommend approval in principle and that the Comptroller be authorized to work out the necessary agreement and that he and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute such agreement with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis after it has been approved by the University's Legal Counsel.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this recommendation was approved and authority was given as requested.

RELEASES OF PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (7) The University Patent Committee submits the following reports and recommendations relating to patentable discoveries: a. G. H. Fett, Professor of Electrical Engineering, has developed a highspeed counting device to measure very small time intervals. The invention is the direct result of research for the United States Air Force. In the opinion of Professor Fett and his colleagues the device has little commercial possibility and a patent thereon would not be of any benefit to the University. Accordingly, the Department of Electrical Engineering and the University Patent Committee recommend that all rights to the invention be released to the United States Air Force. b. An instrument described as a photoelectric nystagmograph, a device for recording involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs, has been developed in the Department of Otolaryngology and the Aeromedical and Physical Environment Laboratory at the College of Medicine. Doctors Nicholas Torok, Clinical Instructor in Otolaryngology, and Victor Guillemin, Jr., Professor of Biophysics in the Department of Physiology, participated in this development along with Dr. Jeno Barnothy, Professor of Physics at Barat College, Lake Forest. In the opinion of the Head of the Department of Otolaryngology and other University officials, the instrument has little or no commercial value and the University would not be justified in spending funds in securing the patent. The University Patent Committee recommends that the invention be released to the inventors. I concur in the recommendations of the Committee.

On motion of Mr. Megran, these recommendations were approved.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (8) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds as follows: 1. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, remodeling of Aeronautical Laboratory B $ 6 500 2. Department of Art, remodeling and equipment to improve teaching facilities 3 430 3. Department of Botany, remodeling of greenhouses 44 500 4. Department of Food Technology, remodeling in the Dairy Manufactures Building 15 800 5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, remodeling in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 15 750 6. College of Commerce and Business Administration, remodeling and equipment for the Secretarial Training Program 9 585