Division of Research Development and Administration (University of Michigan) records, 1919-1988.

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Division of Research Development and Administration (University of Michigan) records, 1919-1988.

Minutes of the organization's executive body; subject files of the Vice-President for Research, Ralph A. Sawyer; staff and committee records; files relating to the Great Lakes Research Division, the Institute of Science and Technology, and the Engineering College Research Council; records documenting the administration of director Robert E. Burroughs; and photographs.

30 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7361139

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan. Great Lakes Research Division

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University of Michigan. College of engineering

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See the historical sketch in the finding aid for the College of Engineering (University of Michigan) Records. From the guide to the College of Engineering (University of Michigan) publications, ca. 1881-, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) Interviews of retired College of Engineering faculty conducted by Enid Galler. From the description of College of Engineering (University of Michigan) oral history interviews, 2003. (University of Michigan). Wo...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

University of Michigan. Research Institute

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Burroughs, Robert Eli, 1904-1978.

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Assistant director of the Engineering Research Institute, later director of its successor organization, the Research Institute [reorganized in 1961 as the Office of Research Administration (ORA)] of the University of Michigan. From the description of Robert Eli Burrougs papers, 1941-1970. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420143 Robert Eli Burroughs was born in 1904 in Everett, North Carolina. He received his B.S. degree from North Carolina State U...

University of Michigan. Division of Research Development and Administration

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The University of Michigan Department of Engineering Research was established in 1919 within the College of Engineering. In 1948, it was reconstituted outside the college as the Engineering Research Institute. In 1958, it was again reorganized as the University of Michigan Research Institute. In 1961, its name was changed to the Office of Research Administration. And in 1973, the name was again changed to the Division of Research Development and Administration. From the description o...

University of Michigan. Institute of Science and Technology

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University of Michigan scientific research center. From the description of Institute of Science and Technology (University of Michigan) records, 1950-1989. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419710 The Institute of Science and Technology (hereafter called IST) was established in 1959 by the Regents of the University of Michigan as a research center to link the scientific and technological expertise of the university's faculty to specific research in...

University of Michigan. Vice-President for Research.

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Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978

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Professor of physics, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, director of the Phoenix Project, and Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, scientist and administrator for the U.S. Navy during World War II, technical director of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, officer of the American Institute of Physics and Optical Society of America. From the description of Ralph A. Sawyer papers, 1918-1978. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302...

Engineering College Research Council

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University of Michigan. Office of Research Administration

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University of Michigan. Engineering Research Institute

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