Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

SEPTEMBER MEETING, 1963

The Vice-President, continuing his report, said that planning for the
Institute for Social Research Building, for the Ambulatory Care Unit.
the North Campus Center, and for the Central Campus Library was
proceeding on schedule. He said the next project in the renovation of
the Main Hospital Building involved the Central Laboratories, and
would be financed by a state appropriation in the amount of $625,000.
The work for this renovation project will be done by Jeffress-Dyer.
who was low bidder for it. Preliminary sketches and analyses for the
Medical Science Building Unit II and the Dental School Building were
being prepared and would be submitted to the State Controller for the
release of funds on these projects.
In concluding, the Vice-President said that preliminary plans and
designs for the Space Research Building had been approved by the
federal government. The architect was proceeding with the detailed
plans and specifications for this building.
The Vice-President in charge of business and finance distributed
copies of "Buildings Under Study, The University of Michigan, 1963.'
This, the second report on this subject, was gratefully accepted and
placed on file.
The Vice-President for Research reported on the University's research programs in oceanography and the earth sciences and upon the
University's research program sponsored by NASA.
The University's fresh water oceanographic program, the VicePresident said, included the Great Lakes Research Division, which is
now a division of the Institute of Science and Technology, the fisheries
program, and the program in water pollution. The National Institutes
of Health sponsor the water pollution laboratory; the work in fisheries
is sponsored by Federal Fisheries Research.
The inland oceanography program was strengthened, the Vice-President said, when the Regents accepted from an anonymous donor a
46-foot metal boat, the "Highland Lassie" (p. 76). This boat, along
with the 50-foot "Mysis," which had just been completed at Sturgeon
Bay, Wisconsin, under a National Science Foundation grant, and the
114-foot "Inland Seas," would bring the total of vessels for the University's research program to four, the other being the 34-foot "Naiad,"
which four years ago was the only vessel operated under University
auspices.
These vessels will be used by the Great Lakes Research Division
of the Institute of Science and Technology in a major study of the
southern half of Lake Michigan, under a four-year U. S. Public Health
Service research grant. The first grant of the four-year study is
$289,000. The research, the Vice-President said, would gather information pertinent to the future management and preservation of the
water quality of Lake Michigan. Extensive sampling of the lake for
chemical and biological analysis of the water and bottom sediment will
be made to determine man's effect on the lake and how fast man's use
of it is changing its water quality.
Continuing, the Vice-President reported on research in the space
sciences at the University. He was pleased to note the appointment of
a committee on the space sciences composed of Samuel D. Estep of
the Law School, H. R. Crane of the Physics Department, Paul M. Fitts

"Buildings Under
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