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 LNHVERSHW OF KENTUCKY

LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY 40506-0032

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

It is my pleasure to introduce this special issue of ODYSSEY, A
Magazine of University of Kentucky Research. This edition

highlights examples of the many and varied interactions between
the University, industry, and government. I think you will find
the articles it contains to be very interesting and informative.

The University of Kentucky is the state's comprehensive research
university and is directly involved with the economic future of
Kentucky. In large measure, the Commonwealth's future depends on
the growth of its educational foundation and its technological
base. Major factors in the state's achievement of this future
growth are the educational and research programs of the
University of Kentucky. In turn, the success of the University's
programs is highly dependent on its relationships with industry
and government.

With the help of and in collaboration with Kentucky state
government, business and industry, and its many generous private
supporters, the University is already putting into place the
facilities and other resources which will be needed to assist in
the economic development of the Commonwealth. Examples of steps
being taken abound throughout this issue of ODYSSEY. Of
particular significance are: the provision of over $20 million

of bonding authority by the state for the acquisition of major
state-of-the-art research equipment; the state appropriation of

$5 million toward the purchase and installation of a supercomputer;
and the authorization and funding for a new Agricultural
Engineering building and a Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
Program and facility. These initiatives, together with major
private gifts such as those supporting the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine
Research Center, the Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center, and the
Combs Cancer Research Building, will yield substantial dividends
throughout the next decade and, indeed, into the next century.

I hope this special edition of ODYSSEY will stimulate further
thought and inquiry into the ways the University of Kentucky may
continue to serve the needs of the people of the Commonwealth,

the region and the nation.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY UNIVERSITY

 

 

  

Volume V, No. 1

ODYSSEY is a
magazine published by
the University of
Kentucky Research
Foundation under the
auspices of the Vice
Chancellor for
Research and the Dean
of the Graduate
School. Each issue of
ODYSSEY describes
only a few of the many
University of Kentucky
research projects
underway in a variety
of areas.

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A MAGAZINE OF UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH

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CONTENTS

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Changing Nature 2
University, Industry & Government Collaborations

 

 

 

Catching the Eye of Industry 6
A Few Good Reasons Industry Comes to UK 10
Harvesting Technology 18

Reaping the Benefits of University Research in the Marketplace

 

The EPSCoR Program: Pioneering on the High‘Tech Frontier 23
EPSCOR Projects Selected

 

 

 

 

Kentucky's Edge on Robotics 30
Attracting the Best and the Brightest 34
When Industry Steps In With Dollars 35
The Gluck Equine Research Center 38

Keeping a Kentucky Passion Healthy

 

A $20 Million Push 40
1986 General Assembly Gives Research High Priority

 

Read a Good Book Lately? 44
UK Libraries Accept 2,000,001 Volume

 

finiverslty Archives
Margaret I. King Library « Nor“!

Bringing Literature Home

 

 

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Directory Lexington, Kentucky 405067

 

 

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CHANGING
NATURE

University, Industry,
Government Collaborations

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By Susan H. Donohew

merica’s once overflowing reservoirs of
Abasic discovery, on which technological

development is based, are dangerously
low—and corporate America and academe know
it.

America is no longer the crowned winner in
the technology race before the gun even
sounds—instead we watch other countries and
nations demonstrate the innovation and
enterprise we have always claimed as uniquely
ours. We are no longer competing with
ourselves—the challenge now is coming from
other nations throughout the world.

The key may be in changing the nature of the
university—industry relationship. Universities
have, until quite recently, concentrated on the
basic research on which most technological
development by industry has been based.
Examples include the research that led to the
invention of man—made polymers such as nylon,
as well as many other commercially important
developments in organic chemistry.

Universities were active, according to Dr.
Theodore Brown, vice chancellor for research
and dean of the graduate college at the
University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, in
both basic and applied research during World
War II. Many of the spectacular advances in
technology such as the development of synthetic
rubber, the invention of radar, and the first
sustained nuclear chain reaction occurred in
university laboratories in federally sponsored
research programs.

But somewhere along the way, university
research and industrial research tended to go in
different directions, primarily because the
tremendous accumulation of knowledge has
driven each into their own “corner.” As
explained by Art Gallaher, chancellor of the
University of Kentucky Lexington Campus, “We
have become inundated with information and
information is different than knowledge.
Technology has given us tremendous capabilities
for generating and storing knowledge but we, i.e.
society, have not been able to keep up with it
and convert it into knowledge." For example, he
explains, “the information gathered from the
space program through experiments,
photographs and other data collected will take
years to sort through before scientists are able to
determine what it all means.”

This inundation has meant, among other
things, that the U.S.’s technological leadership

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suffered as technology transfer between the
universities and industries became difficult and
sporadic.

Concerns with our technological
competitiveness as well as limited resources are
causing universities and industries to once again
look at ways to pool their resources and
collaborate for individual and mutual benefit.

Universities perform over half of the basic
research and development (R&D) conducted in
the United States. Industries perform about 20
percent but nearly three—quarters of industry’s
efforts are directed towards development while
universities contribute nearly 70 percent of their
research efforts to basic research, according to
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science in a report entitled “Research and
Development, FY 1986.”

Universities have long assumed the role of
primary contributor to and the major repository
for new knowledge. Faculty contribute to
expanding the knowledge base through basic
research, to finding new ways to apply that
knowledge and to transmitting that knowledge
to students. Industries look to universities for Chancellor, UK
staff support (both students and faculty), and for Lexington Campus
the basic research necessary for new and Sector
improved products.

The factor that has changed so significantly in
recent years is the explosion of new knowledge
and the incredible speed of technological
innovations. How is this new knowledge
synthesized, and applied to the betterment of
society?

These are the questions and problems that
have culminated in a renewed and intense
interest in university and industry
collaborations. Another partner is state

 

“The business of
the university is
creativity. Anything
we do that
minimizes or
subtracts from that
system is to do an
inherent violence to

the system.”
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government. As economic forces redirect our
state’s traditional emphasis from agriculture to
increasing its technological capabilities,
government leaders look to the university and
industry for some of the answers.

The dollar amounts to be gained by the
universities through increased industry support,
as compared to other research support, are
relatively minor. In 1982 only about four percent
of the total research expenditures by universities
were financed with funds from industry.

However, as explained by Mr. James Y.
McDonald, executive director of the University
of Kentucky Research Foundation, “Greater
efforts to work with industry are desirable, not
only from the standpoint of economic
development, but also within the terms of our
education and research missions. If we're
working closer with industry we can better
educate our students, who then stand a better
chance of being employed. The education of our
students should be related, at least in part, to the
‘real world’ and, in the area of research,
collaboration with industry gives us a better
understanding of technical problems faced by
those outside of the university.”

Collaborations:

Joint endeavors between industry and the
university have been an integral part of the
University of Kentucky for a number of years.
The College of Agriculture, for example, has a
long history of support from the chemical
industry ~ Dow, Dupont, CIBA—Geigy, and Eli
Lilly for weed, insect, and disease control in
major crops as well as strong industrial liaisons in
the areas of tobacco research and animal feed,
nutrition and health care.

Research conducted by UK for industry
extends from fundamental explorations in the
laboratory to extensive product testing in the
field, and from problems of world nutrition to
the specifics of Kentucky’s own thoroughbred

 

 

“ . . in the area

of research,
collaboration with
industry gives us a
better
understanding of
technical problems
faced by those
outside of the
university.”

James Y. McDonald,
Executive Director, UK
Research Foundation

  
  
 

   
   
  
 
  
     
 
 
 

 

“Mastery of the coming technological
revolution will clean up much of the
world’s economic mess by creating new
industries and new jobs."

Francois Mitterrand, President of France

and other industries (See related article on p. 38 ).

The Drug Product Evaluation Unit, a
multidisciplinary effort housed in the College of
Pharmacy, has worked closely with industry
since I971, and the Department of English has
been conducting employee writing programs for
various companies for several years. In the areas
of mathematical sciences and engineering there
are cooperative programs in which students
alternate periods of instruction in the university
with periods of work in a particular company.
Upon graduation they are frequently employed
on a permanent basis by the company.

Initiatives:

In the fall of 1983 UK President Dr. Otis
Singletary appointed UK’s Vice Chancellor for
Research, Wimberly Royster, to head a
committee to study university/industry/state
government partnerships. It was the committee’s
charge to study the university’s research
relationships with industry, to develop plans for
enhancing these relationships, and to
recommend policies to guide future relationships.

Many of the ideas and initiatives highlighted
in this issue of ODYSSEY are outgrowths of the
committee’s recommendations. For example,
encouraging multidisciplinary collaborations was
recommended as one method to attract industry
interest.

Such collaborations also have been very
successful in securing major federal grants and
contracts. As explained by Gallaher, “A look at
National Science Foundation funding patterns
shows funding in the direction of research efforts
to the solution of problems," an orientation that
fits well with the university/industry/state
government collaboration initiatives. One of the
primary vehicles UK is using to address this
trend is the development of centers of excellence,
multidisciplinary arenas that represent faculty

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strengths and cut across academic disciplines and
administrative units.

As Gallaher explains, ”Vice Chancellor
Royster, Fred Zechman and Leonard K. Peters
(associate deans for research for the medical
center and Lexington campus, respectively)
studied all aspects of research on campus and
then identified expertise in areas that involve
problems or solutions to problems, rather than
‘disciplines’.”

The College of Pharmacy has the highest
proportion of industry funding among university
units and one of the highest in the nation. This
has evolved because most of the senior faculty in
pharmacy have come from industry and thus
have strong linkages there.

Another reason for strong support by industry
of pharmacy is that most pharmaceutical
companies do not have the extensive in—house
research units to perform basic research and to
seek, obtain and maintain Food & Drug
Administration approvals. UK has recently
developed a new model pharmaceutical
manufacturing facility which can take a product
through the testing necessary to acquire the
approvals, even through human testing. This is a
strong magnet for industry interest.

A stronger magnet, however, as pointed out by
Peter P. Bosomworth, chancellor of the UK
Medical Center, is the availability of medical,
pharmacy and other faculty to conduct, review,
and analyze the testing—capabilities not always
available in—house to any but the largest of the
pharmaceutical companies.

The university and state government have
been partners in economic development for
Kentucky for some years. Some of their efforts
can be seen in the development of the new UK
Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
(See related article on p. 30 l, the Institute for
Mining and Minerals Research, the Kentucky
Geological Survey, the Kentucky Council of
Economic Advisors, the Kentucky Real Estate

Center, and the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration Technology Applications

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“There is now a
vague feeling
among the
American people
that the present
problems are not
just another clip in
the old merry—go—
round that will go
away, but they are
new industrial,
scientific, political
problems that have
changed the nature
of work, trade and
warfare.”

James Restart, “New York

Times”

 
   

“It is clear that we
need to know how
to do this better
than higher
education has done

it in general.”
Peter P. Bosomworth,
Chancellor, UK
Medical Center Sector

    

 

Program (NASA—TAP) — all programs which have
strong industry connections and are in direct
support of the state‘s efforts to expand its
technological and economic base.

For Dr. Bosomworth, developing and
facilitating multidisciplinary programs has been a
major goal during his decade of heading the
medical center, and he sees the centers of
excellence as an ideal way to focus some of these
initiatives. For example, the Center of Excellence
in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
involves over 60 faculty throughout the
university who together attract federal funding in
excess of $6 million.

A large scale laboratory for processing
biological materials is being developed for the
center. Coupled with already existing facilities,
this will allow the center to produce methods of
diagnosing inherited genetic diseases such as
sickle cell anemia and to create antibodies and
hormones to treat other diseases like cancer or
diabetes. Other researchers will work on ways of
altering the genetic structure of tobacco plants,
to change the levels of tar and nicotine or to
develop entirely new ways of using the tobacco
plant to produce valuable new products in the
health and nutrition fields.

it is expected that biotechnology industries will
directly employ 50,000 to 100,000 new workers in
the next ten years. The Center of Excellence in
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering will be a
key the commonwealth needs to compete for and
contribute to this new area of scientific research,
training, and economic growth.

Policy Questions

In developing policies to facilitate these
collaborations Bosomworth said the university
needs to ask “Are we developing these linkages
to attract more money or are they truly
beneficial to the university? It is important that
we continue to justify these efforts in terms of
the university’s academic and service missions."
Gallaher said the heart of the issue for the

 

 

  

 

university is: How do you engage in this process
(which is one of serving society) without
becoming subordinated to it? He suggests that
”some would retreat to an almost monastic
position and others would yield completely.
There is really no answer yet to the right
balance.

“The business of the university is creativity.
Anything we do that minimizes or subtracts
from that system is to do an inherent violence to
the system,” Gallaher said. Creativity for the
university, as he explains, is “an agenda for new
knowledge, new applications of existing
knowledge, and the storage and delivering of
knowledge. We must follow that mandate but
remain sensitive to society. 1 see no conflict in
that."

Dr. Royster said that one drawback is that
some industries are concerned about the
publication of research results and others with
proprietary information. ”Since a primary
university objective is the development and
transmission of knowledge in an open manner,
such restrictions from industry could inhibit the
university’s traditional open pursuit of research
in certain areas." For now, he said, ”we try not
to accept those types of agreements."

As Bosomworth has tried to facilitate
multidisciplinary programs in the medical center,
some changes in structure, policy and
organization have been necessary. And, since the
major successes in seeking outside support for
research on grants and contracts have come
when multidisciplinary teams are put together,
departmental structures and chairs have to be
willing to let their faculty participate in such
teams.

Another policy issue arises when one of these
endeavors becomes commercially successful. As
Bosomworth points out, ”It is difficult to keep
clear the relationships and to avoid conflicts of
interest. If university resources are utilized and it
becomes a commercially successful activity, that
has to be considered in determining the various
interests. If it was, in part, funded through a
federal grant or contract, using university
resources~what rights and expectations does the
inventor (e.g., faculty, staff or student), the
university, and the user of the idea or product
have?”

Presently, Chancellors Bosomworth and
Gallaher and other university administrators are
exploring the feasibility of an umbrella
corporation in which individual entrepreneurial
ventures could be housed within the university.
Bosomworth said “It is clear that we need to
know how to do this better than higher

 

“As a nation, we are entering a period of
intense economic and military competition.
Research in our academic institutions has
long been an American strength. Academia,
industry, and the nation have much to gain
if academic research can reinforce our

industrial innovation system.
Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., former President of Exxon
Research and Engineering Company.

education has done it in general. We need to
encourage creativity while assuring institutional
responsibility and accountability.”

Future:

The University of Kentucky’s future in
encouraging and supporting technology and
economic expansion are addressed throughout
this issue of ODYSSEY. UK’s efforts will be
discussed as well as the reasons why so much
energy is being directed to increasing university/
industry/state government collaboration. In
addition, some of the problems or policy
questions that these initiatives invoke will be
discussed.

The impact of these initiatives, both in the
university and in the commonwealth, will be felt
for years to come but their full import may not
be determined for many more years. However, in
assessing the university’s determination to
encourage and support industry collaboration,
one of the strongest indicators may well be found
in a recent study published by the Center for the
Study of Science Policy at Pennsylvania State
University and sponsored by the National
Science Foundation.

In this study of the top 100 universities,
determined on the basis of industrial R&D
(research and development) expenditures for
science and engineering, UK was ranked 80th in
1980 and climbed to 26th in 1984. In regard to
industrial funding as a percentage of total
funding, UK was ranked 79th in FY 1980 and
14th by 1984. And, in terms of the percentage
increase in industrial funding for RSLD from FY
1980 to FY 1984, UK was ranked first.

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Wimberly Royster,
Vice Chancellor for
Research and

Dean of The
Graduate School,
heads the
committee
appointed to study
the university’s
research
relationships with
industry, to develop
plans for enhancing
these relationships,
and to recommend
policies to guide
future
relationships.

 
  

 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

  

CATCHING THE EYE
OF INDUSTRY

 

by Tawny R. Acker

First you have to have
something of quality to attract
their attention.

Next, you’ve got to make sure
they are aware of what you have
to offer.

If the interest is mutual, you
explore each other’s interests and
decide if a relationship is
worthwhile.

With both parties interested, a
mutual agreement of terms for
conducting the relationship must
be established to each’s
satisfaction.

But, even with careful attention to the wants
and needs of both parties and the
communication channels clear, the relationship
is not guaranteed to succeed. There are many
other determining factors including the parties’

and maintain a good working relationship.

corporate mergers and the growing trend of
university and industry relationships.

The marriage between ivory tower academics
and pragmatic industry is not exactly a match

there’s nothing wrong with a well—chaperoned
relationship. After all, such a relationship is a
contractual arrangement borne out of necessity
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backgrounds, changing goals and the continuing
importance placed upon such character traits as

honesty, integrity, and trust. In short, ruthless
scrutiny is required to find an acceptable partner
and dogged determination is needed to establish

This common sense advice applies not only to
friends and lovers, but to business partnerships,

made in heaven, but under certain circumstances

 

precautions are taken to ensure that each party’s
reputation will remain unsullied by the alliance.

The University of Kentucky’s historical
romance with industry began as early as 1887 for
the College of Agriculture and as recently as six
years ago for the Department of English.

Each relationship between a college or
department of UK and an industry is unique in
terms of specific arrangements, goals and
sponsorship agreements, but all are strictly
governed by UK’s operating procedures. Such
arrangements are often facilitated and
administered by the UK Research Foundation.

The trend toward more university/industry
liaisons can be traced to the inability of federal
research budgets to keep pace with needs,
according to Harry Kostenbauder, associate dean
for research in the College of Pharmacy. “There
is more competition than ever for federal monies,
and it is a natural alternative to look to private
industry to supplement university research
budgets.

“But,” he notes, “It wasn’t always this way.
About 15 years ago the idea of accepting money
from industry was considered wrong by many
members of the academic community, who
seemed to feel the association with an
organization dedicated to research for profit
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and academia is vastly different, and everyone
appears interested in the potential for funding.”

University officials also recognize that funding
from private industry provides more leeway in
terms of how the research dollar is spent. Federal
funds are granted and accepted on the basis of a
strict budget and stringent administrative
controls; private research funds are not usually
provided under such restrictive conditions.
Therefore, researchers have more freedom to
pursue information or experiments which might
arise from the initial research as long as the
terms of the agreement are met. Also, graduate
student salaries are often paid or supplemented
by industry funding.

Pharmacy, medicine, agriculture and agronomy
are areas with rather long and involved industry
liaisons due in part to the nature of their
academic research goals.

The College of Pharmacy became involved
with industry—sponsored research in the early
1970’s at a time when only a handful of
universities were reaching for industry funding.

Pharmacy's bold venture into the unchartered
regions of industry—sponsored research was
engineered by the dean, Joseph Swintosky, who
came from a pharmaceutical industry
background and brought with him to UK several
professors with industry ties. These faculty,
under Dr. Swintosky’s direction, approached
industry with solutions to problems in the
private sector’s drug product testing. The
professors were aware that industry did not have
the internal means to test new drugs and that
the hospitals and doctors being used by industry
for testing did not have the time or the control
to provide the accurate results needed for Federal

Drug Administration’s approval. UK, on the
other hand, had the ability, the desire and the

 

 

  

controlled environment to provide accurate test
results. Industry bought the idea, and it was the
beginning of a long and profitable relationship
resulting in the creation of the UK Drug
Evaluation Unit.

Thomas Foster is the director of the unit
which designs, conducts and evaluates
investigational drugs and delivery systems. In the
last decade, the unit has conducted
approximately 200 industry—sponsored research
projects. Although Dr. Foster said industry
support is important, he cautions that a
“university needs to maintain a balance between
grants and highly competitive industrial
contracts."

Dr. Kostenbauder agrees. “I would be
concerned with an imbalance in favor of
industry support, because, although it is valuable
and provides a profit, it does not serve as a mark
of excellence for our faculty to attain. Federally
funded research requires peer review and sets a
benchmark of achievement.”

Current figures show that UK‘s College of
Pharmacy research dollars are equally divided in
terms of federal and private funding. The
National Institutes of Health provided 35
percent, and 37 percent came from private
pharmaceutical support. The remainder came
from various private health organizations and
other federal agencies.

Pharmacy, medicine, biology—the biotechnical
fields-are a natural for industry support,
Kostenbauder said. But, he noted, the
competition for industry support is also high,
and a university must demonstrate continued
expertise in an area to attract industry's
attention. “UK has a lot to offer in certain areas,
but this expertise has to be known and accessible
to industry.”

Hence UK’s establishment of a Center for
Pharmaceutical Science and Technology which
will act as a focal point for more multi—
disciplinary research and thereby create the
potential for attracting additional federal and
industrial support.

Arthur Mlodozeniec, director of the center,
emphasizes that the first goal of the center is not
to attract industry support. The first goal is to
improve the quality of science and scientific
research.

“Industry support will help us pick up the slack
in federal funding," Dr. Mlodozeniec said.
“Working with industry also gives us

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[researchers] the opportunity to form creative
partnerships and do research we might not have
the opportunity to pursue otherwise." Also, he
explains that by attracting industry support and
attention to UK, the commonwealth benefits as
well. “If we can demonstrate our research
potential, perhaps it will attract pharmaceutical
industries to Kentucky which would be a more
direct benefit to Kentuckians than the usual
research and educational avenues. If you
examine the potential in university—industry
liaisons you find unlimited possibilities.
However, private funding will never replace the
importance of federal funding. Industry funding
is a valuable resource we should use carefully.”

Another UK bastion of industry support is the
College of Agriculture. “We have a close working
relationship with industry,” explains Dr. Virgil
Hays, chairman of the Department of Animal
Sciences in the UK College of Agriculture. “The
College of Agriculture is in a unique position to
work with the livestock industry because our
extension agents are out in the field assessing
industry needs as well as individual needs which
create industry needs. Many of the needs are
mutual and include research, education, and
promotion. In addition we relate to the scientist
in industrial research groups such as
pharmaceutical, chemical, animal health, the
feed industry, etc. These groups take some of our
basic research findings and assist in applying
them to the animal industries."

The animal sciences department receives
industry support from sources such as the
Kentucky Beef Cattle Association, the Kentucky
Pork Producers’ Council and the Kentucky Dairy
Association.

The agronomy department in the college has
no formalized approach to attracting industry
funding said its chairman, Jack Hiatt. “It is up to
individual faculty researchers to establish contact
with industry."

The department does, however, have a strong
industry liaison. ”We usually receive about
$400,000 per year in industry support and hence
grants help supplement public funding. It is a
mutually beneficial arrangement, because we

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i A ’ V y, . provide the scientific knowledge they need."

A Dr. Hiatt said that he expects his faculty
' members to have long range research goals and
i any research they do should he consistent and
compatible with those goals.

Industry liaisons are not limited to the
hiotechnical sciences. For example, the English
department offers writing programs for several
industries, and gifts from industry have
sponsored lecture series and visiting
professorships.

In the College of Business and Economics,
industry sponsorship funds several faculty
positions which would otherwise not exist.

The james W. Martin School of Public
Administration, an interdisciplinary unit within
the UK Graduate School, offers a service to
industry through its NASA Technology
Applications Program. The service disseminates
puhlic administration’oriented information to
state and local governments, individuals, and
industries. Dr. Phil Roeder, director of the
Martin School, estimates that about one~t