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Record Group: 4 UW
Record Sub-Group: 42
Records Title: UM System; President's Office; Vice President for Research; Administrative Records and Reports
Dates: 1964-2016
Volume: 53 and 1/3 cubic feet, 66.67 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

This Sub-Group contains records of the University of Missouri President's Office relating to the Office of Vice President for Research. Included are correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, printed research reports, work sheets, brochures, news releases, phonograph records, questionnaires, manuscripts, research proposals, applications for research grants, consulting reports, surveys, and survey results. Subjects include research project reporting guidelines, regulations for experimentation with humans and animals, radiation safety, the UM-System Research Reactor, the Atomic Energy Commission, research administration and evaluation, legislative hearings, professional organizations, the UM-System Weldon Spring property, LSD experimentation, military sponsorship of malaria research, the UM-System computer network, the Water Resources Research Center, the Environmental Trace Substances Research Center, Sinclair Research Farm, university policies on patents and copyrights, Graduate-Deans meetings, "Lead Belt" research, budget matters, the Solar Research Institute, institutional review boards, and indirect costs recovery. Additional records in this Sub-Group pertain to units overseen by the Office of the Vice President, including the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Program, the University of Missouri Research Board, and the Office of Intellectual Properties.
Note to Researcher: For more information on the UM-System Research Reactor, see Sub-Group 7 of Record Group 10 C. Also see Series 2, Sub-Group 60 of Record Group 4 UW, and ask the University Archives staff about the UW:4/101 Record Sub-Group.

Series Descriptions:

Series 1. - UW:4/27/2
This Series holds records of the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research (1968-1983). The bulk of this material was created or received by Assistant to the Vice President for Research, Paul Keenan. Included are correspondence, questionnaires, published articles, unpublished manuscripts, research proposals, applications for research grants, consulting reports, surveys, and survey results. Topics include research project reporting guidelines, regulations for experimentation with humans and animals, radiation safety, the UM-System Research Reactor, the UM-System computer network, water resources, Sinclair Research Farm, University policies on patents and copyrights, and meetings of the Graduate Deans.
(10 c.f., 015087, 015088, 015089, 015090, 015091, 015092, 015093, 015094, 015095, 015096)
Note to Researcher: For more on the UM-System's Sinclair Research Farm, see Series 1, Sub-Group 16 of Record Group 3 C and Series 14, Sub-Group 56 of Record Group 4 UW.

Series 2. - UW:4/27/3
This Series holds records of the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research (1968-1980). The bulk of this material was created or received by Vice President for Research, Ardath H. Emmons. Included are correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, printed research reports, work sheets, brochures, and news releases. Subjects include the Atomic Energy Commission, research administration and evaluation, legislative hearings, professional organizations, the UM-System Weldon Spring property, LSD experimentation, military sponsorship of malaria research, the Water Resources Research Center, the Environmental Trace Substances Research Center, Sinclair Research Farm, university policies on patents and copyrights, Graduate Deans meetings, "Lead Belt" research, budget matters, the UM-System Grants Office, and the Solar Research Institute.
(18 c.f., 031103, 031104, 031105, 031106, 031107, 031108, 031109, 031110, 031111, 031112, 033582, 033583, 033932, 073788, 014984, 014985, 014986, 014987)
Note to Researcher: Series 2 contains some records which are confidential and restricted. See the restrictions note at the end of this finding aid. For more on the UM Sinclair Research Farm, see Series 1, Sub-Group 16 of Record Group 3 C and Series 14, Sub-Group 56 of Record Group 4 UW.
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.

Series 3. - UW:4/27/4 (A79-03)
This Series holds records of the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research (1973). Included are a two-record set of 33 rpm phonograph recordings produced in 1973 that contains 16 episodes of the UM-System Water Resources Research Center radio program, "On The Water-Front."
(Env., Ellis)

Series 4. - UW:4/27/6
This Series holds research publications produced by or for the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research (1964-1968). Included are the University of Missouri Research Newsletter, the University of Missouri Bulletin (reporting current research at all four UM-System campuses), a booklet entitled Sinclair Comparative Medicine Research Farm for Studies of Chronic Diseases and Aging, a 1967 summary report of "University Wide Research," a 1968 manual entitled, Policies and Procedures for Research, and a 1969 manual entitled, Sponsored Research Policy.
(1/6 c.f., Ellis)
Note to Researcher: For more on the UM-System's Sinclair Research Farm, see Series 1, Sub-Group 16 of Record Group 3 C and Series 14, Sub-Group 56 of Record Group 4 UW.

Series 5. - UW:4/27/NP (A95-15)
This Series holds records of the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research. Included are administrative records pertaining to the Institutional Review Board and its evaluations of UM-System practices in regard to human subject research.
(4 c.f., 016072, 016073, 016074, 016075)
Note to Researcher: The records in Series 5 are currently unprocessed. Until processed and inventoried, portions may not be fully available to researchers. Series 5 contains some records which are confidential and restricted.

Series 6. - UW:4/27/5 (A81-12)
This Series holds records of the University of Missouri Office of Vice President for Research (1965-1976). Included in the Series are copies of five annual program reports from the UM-System Water Resources Research Center. The Series holds reports from the following years: 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, and 1976. The reports were prepared by the Center for submission to the Department of the Interior's Office of Water Research. The Series also includes a report titled "Research Projects of the Water Resources Research Center", (1968).
(1/3 c.f., UMLD1)

Series 7. - UW:4/27/8 (A20-27)
This Series contains administrative and other records created and received in the University of Missouri's Office of the Vice President for Research and its successor, the Office for Research and Economic Development, (1987-2016). The records consist of the following types and topics: the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Program, the University of Missouri Research Board, the Office of Intellectual Properties, and a partnership with the Missouri Soybean Association. A number of the records originate from the period Mike Nichols was Vice President.
(21 c.f., 060133, 060134, 060135, 124614, 047783, 047786, 121711, 124582, 052028, 052201, 052202, 052203, 052204, 052209, 052213, 052214, 052215, 052216, 052220, 052221, 052532)
Note to Researcher: This Series is currently unprocessed. Until completely processed and inventoried, portions may not be fully available to researchers. Series 7 contains records which are confidential and restricted. See the restrictions note at the end of this finding aid.
Note to Archivist: The box lists for this Series are available online. They can be accessed by following this link.

Restrictions Note: The Archives of the University of Missouri-Columbia is required by law and Board of Curator's policy to restrict access to some files and information. Student records are held as confidential under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and by University policy. Faculty promotion and tenure records and Academic Personnel files are restricted for 75 years, or the lifetime of the individual. All grievance, disciplinary, and medical records are treated as confidential files. Consultations with legal counsel, both in-house and external, are protected by the attorney/client privilege and will not be released.

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