 | Board of Visitors minutes June 15, 2001 |  |
ARTS AND SCIENCES — $1,300,000
Biology — With the May 2001 allocation of $325,000, the Biology Department has a basic account balance of $325,000. The department proposes to allocate $180,405 to fund fellowships, to support entering Ph.D. students, to provide two months of summer support for eight students, to cover tuition and fees (in part or in full) of nine students and to supplement two presidential fellowships. The department proposes to allocate $79,595 to provide partial support of the salaries of the director and associate director of the Mountain Lake program and to support a joint hire in a new field made by the departments of Biology and Physics. The department requests a transfer of $36,139 from the Biology Pratt Equipment to Biology Faculty Salaries. Finally, the department requests that $65,000 be transferred to the Arts and Sciences Pratt Special Account in partial repayment of the funds made available in 1998-1999 in support of the hiring of Janis Antonovics as the Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology.
Chemistry — The Chemistry Department proposes that $100,000 be allocated to provide fellowship support and tuition differentials to continuing graduate students and initial fellowship support to eleven graduate students. The department requests that an additional $15,000 be allocated to provide matching funds required for a National Science Foundation (NSF) summer undergraduate research award. The department proposes to allocate $80,000 to provide summer salary for new professors Lin Pu, Sergei Egerov, James Landers and Milton Brown; summer salary to the director of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, James Demas; summer salary for two co-directors of the NSF's Integrated Graduate Education Research Training program, Ian Harrison and Brooks Pate; and summer salary for Robert Bryan for laboratory experiment development. The department requests that $25,000 be transferred to the Arts and Sciences Pratt Special Account in partial repayment of the funds made available in 1998-1999 in support of the hiring of Janis Antonovics as the Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology.
The department proposes to allocate $75,000, which in combination with Equipment Trust Fund (ETF) reimbursements, will be used for faculty start-up commitments and equipment matching commitments. The remaining $30,000 is to be left
Mathematics — The Mathematics Department proposes to allocate $154,076 for the following purposes: $121,076 to provide partial academic year salary and one month of summer wages for five Whyburn instructors in 2001-2002, and $33,000 for salary support for post doctoral visitor and short term visiting faculty. The department proposes to allocate $12,000 to purchase additional and replacement equipment for the department's computer laboratories. The department also proposes to allocate $133,924 for graduate fellowships. Finally, the department requests that $25,000 be transferred to the Arts and Sciences Pratt Special Account in partial repayment of the funds made available in 1998-1999 in support of the hiring of Janis Antonovics as the Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology.
Physics — The Physics Department proposes to allocate $44,820 to provide salary for a postdoctoral fellow in support of new Assistant Professor Despina Louca. The department proposes to allocate $255,180 to provide startup funds for equipment for Professor Gordon Cates and the new Condensed Matter faculty hire. Finally, the department requests that $25,000 be transferred to the Arts and Sciences Pratt Special Account in partial repayment of the funds made available in 1998-1999 in support of the hiring of Janis Antonovics as the Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology.
| Board of Visitors minutes June 15, 2001 | |