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Faculty Awards

"The growth of our graduate school is also recognition of the distinction
of our faculty. There are, of course, many other evidences that members
of our faculties are known and appreciated beyond the limits of our campuses.
It would not be appropriate for me to attempt here to detailed list of awards
and honors that have come to them, for these will be included in the reports
of the Chancellors. I do wish, however, to call your attention to the recent
election of one of the members of the chemistry faculty at Chapel Hill to
membership in the National Academy of Science and the selection of another
chemist on that faculty to receive the Herty Award for distinguished contributions
to chemistry during the year. Similarly, two members of the faculty at
Raleigh have been invited to serve as visiting professors at distinguished
European universities and two others have been asked by the Secretary of
State to represent this country at an international conference in Vienna on
peaceful uses of atomic energy.

Awards for Excellence in Teaching

"Many honors come to scientists and scholars for their contributions
to knowledge. The University is proud of these achievements, but it is no
less proud of the achievements of its distinguished teachers. Each year
awards are made on each of the three campuses for excellence in teaching.
This year Professor Laura Anderton and Professor Donald Jones received
the first alumnae awards to be made at Greensboro for distinguished
teaching. At Chapel Hill Professors Samuel S. Hill, Jr. , David P. Lapkin,
Daniel W. Patterson and Peter F. Walker received the coveted Tanner
Awards for the excellence in teaching. At Raleigh seven awards are made
at each commencement - one from each school - for superior teaching.
Since commencement is still a few days away, it is not appropriate for me
to identify now the recipients of these awards, but I do want to emphasize
that the University is proud and appreciative of those of its faculties who
contribute so effectively to the success of its instructional programs.

RESEARCH GRANTS

"Universities are important centers of research study. Because of the
heavy costs of much modern research, the federal government and private
foundations contribute substantially to the support of research investigations
carried out by members of the University faculty. The amount of money
committed by such agencies this year to the University on its three campuses
in support of research and training programs is in excess of twenty million
dollars. I use the word 'committeed advisedly because all of the money is
not immediately available. Many, in fact most, of the grants made in support
of research investigations are for periods of two or more years. For example,
the large grant of $1,858,000 recently awarded by the National Institutes of
Health to the Raleigh campus of the University for research investigations
in the field of genetics provides support for seven years of study.

"A grant made jointly to the University at Chapel Hill and Duke University
this year by the Ford Foundation seems worthy of special mention because
its unusual features may make it a prototype for similiar grants in other
parts of the country. The grant provides generous fellowships for faculty
members of colleges in three states, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Virginia, so that they may come to the University at Chapel Hill and to
Duke University for a year of serious scholarly work in the general areas
of the humanities. During the year that the fellows are working with us,
their positions in their home institutions will be filled by advanced graduate
students from our two universities. When these graduate students return
to complete their doctoral work, they will be supported by fellowships from
the grant.

"In September of this year, 13 fellows will come to our two universities
under the provisions of the grant and will receive full salary while engaged
in post-doctoral study. The grant also makes possible the appointment of
distinguished scholars as visiting professors who will give seminars on
our two campuses for our faculties and graduate students as well as for
the fellows appointed under the provisions of the grant. It also provides
funds to support research study during the summer by members of our
faculties. In effect, the Ford Foundation grant sets up a regional center
for serious scholarly work in the humanities.

"The original grant was in the amount of $800,000 for a period of three