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UT System Regents Approve Agenda Items in February Meeting
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System held its first quarterly meeting of 2005 in Austin on Feb. 9-10.
Agenda items that were approved include:
- UT System Chancellor Mark G. Yudof's recommendation that the System not proceed with a bid to the Department of Energy for the management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Watch the archived webcast of the LANL discussion
- The appointment of Regent H. Scott Caven and Regent Robert B. Rowling to the University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO) Board of Directors. They replace current board members Regent John W. Barnhill, Jr., and Vice Chairman Rita C. Clements, respectively. Both will serve as the new regental representatives on the UTIMCO board.
- The appointment of Charles B. Mullins, M.D., as executive vice chancellor for health affairs emeritus at the UT System. Dr. Mullins served as the executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the UT System from 1981 until 2001. He came to the UT System from the Dallas County Hospital District, where he was chief executive officer, and from UT Southwestern, where he recently retired as a professor of internal medicine and holder of the J. Fred Schoellkopf, Jr. Chair in Cardiology. A distinguished teacher, researcher, cardiologist and administrator, the board recently named him an Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus in recognition of his excellence in teaching and scholarship.
- The appointment of James H. Stewart, Jr., as president emeritus of UT Tyler. Stewart served as the institutions' founding president from 1972 to 1981. The university began as Tyler State College and became Texas Eastern University in 1975. In 1979 the university joined the UT System becoming UT Tyler.
- Authorization to establish Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs in Materials Science and Engineering at UT Dallas. The programs will go to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for final approval.
- Approval to name a building to house the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases as the Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building at UT Health Science Center – Houston.
- Approval to rename pediatric services at UT M. D. Anderson as The Children's Cancer Hospital at UT M. D. Anderson.
- Authorization to purchase at a price supported by appraisal the real property and improvements located at 2402 South U.S. Highway 281, Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas, for a UT Pan American Go Center, an initiative of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, to assist high school students through the process of applying for admission to an institution of higher education.
The agenda book for the meeting may be found online.
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