Records of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research, 1963-1967.

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Records of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research, 1963-1967.

Correspondence and other files relating to the various research centers and institutes of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the mid-1960s--the Computation Center, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, the Health Facilities Research Center, the Institute for Community Development, the Institute for Environmental Health Studies, the Institute of Marine Sciences, the Institute of Natural Science, the Institute for Research in Social Science, the Institute of State Programming for the Seventies, the Materials Research Center, the Regional Education Laboratory, the Research Laboratories of Anthropology, and the Speech and Hearing Center. Although the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research was also responsible for the Graduate School, these records contain no files about the Graduate School or graduate programs.

About 1,200 items (1.5 linear ft.).

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Regional Education Laboratory.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute for Research in Social Science

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The Institute for Research in Social Science is the oldest institute of its kind in the United States. It began in 1924 with a grant to the university by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. In 1927 it became a permanent institute of the University with Howard W. Odum as its Director. The original purpose of the Institute was to sponsor and to publish research on social and economic conditions in the South and on the role of local government in promoting public welfare. From the...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials Research Center

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Although the Materials Research Center was formally established in 1965, its program began in 1961 with a grant to the university from the U.S. Dept. of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for basic research in the materials sciences. From 1961 to 1965 the program was administered jointly by the Departments of Physics and Chemistry. In 1965 it was placed under the administrative supervision of the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research; when that office was dismantled i...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Computation Center

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Facilities Research Center.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research Laboratories of Anthropology

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The Research Laboratories of Anthropology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first academic center to study North Carolina antiquities, was founded in 1939 as the Laboratory of Anthropology and Archaeology in conjunction with a statewide archaeological survey co-sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, the University of North Carolina system, the Archaeological Society of North Carolina, and several other state agencies. Its name changed to Research Laboratories of An...

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In 1965, under Chancellor Paul Sharp's reorganization of the campus administrative structure, a vice chancellorship for advanced studies and research was created with responsibility for all graduate studies and research activities. The new position was assumed by Professor Physics Everett D. Palmatier. In 1967, however, the position lapsed; and its responsibilities were reassigned. From the description of Records of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research,...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Marine Sciences

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The Institute of Marine Sciences was established in 1947 as the Institute of Fisheries Research. It was made possible largely by the efforts of R. E. Coker, chairman of the University of North Carolina Department of Zoology, and by a grant from the Knapp Foundation. The name of the institute changed to Institute of Marine Sciences in 1967. The institute's purpose is to conduct and support research, both basic and applied, in marine science and to promote the conservation and development of marin...

Palmatier, Everett D.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Natural Science.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speech and Hearing Center.

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