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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
AC169
Repository:
Princeton University Library: University Archives
Extent:
26 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); University Research Board Records, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1925-2006 (inclusive)
Creator:
Princeton University. University Research Board
Abstract:
The University Research Board, which consists of six faculty members from different departments, is an advisory committee to the president on all research conducted at Princeton University. The collection consists of University Research Board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence between members, and some subject files, as well as the memos and correspondence of Raymond J. Woodrow, executive officer and secretary of the Committee on Project Research and Invention, predecessor to the University Research Board.

Princeton University. University Research Board

The University Research Board, which consists of six faculty members from different departments, is an advisory committee to the president on all research conducted at Princeton University. From 1946-1959, this function was performed by its predecessor, the 5-member Committee on Project Research and Invention.

With the amount of research being done at the University as well as the level of funding this research required skyrocketing, it was decided that a more formal supervisory board was necessary to formulate general policies for the conduct of sponsored research as well as to review research proposals, and so the University Research Board was formed in 1959. In the 1970s with such massive projects as the Plasma Physics Laboratory looming on the horizon and the number of incoming research proposals rising every year, most of the University Research Board's administrative responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA), while the University Research Board retained all of its committee and advisory functions. The Board now operates as a branch of ORPA.

Consists of University Research Board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence between members, and some subject files, as well as the memos and correspondence of Raymond J. Woodrow, executive officer and secretary of the Committee on Project Research and Invention. Much of Woodrow's material pertains to University sponsored research in support of WWII efforts.

Container list created by Suchi Mandavilli '14 and Eleanor Wright '14 in December 2011 and finding aid updated by Christie Peterson in February 2012. The contents of the former AC247, Committee on Project Research and Invention Records were integrated as Box 11 at that time.

An accrual of nine boxes of annual reports and board meeting minutes, AR.2021.031, was added to the records in September, 2021 by Phoebe Nobles.

Related material, some of it generated by the University Research Board, can be found in the Office of Research and Project Administration Records (AC132).

Organization
Subject

Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Author
Christie Peterson
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

Series 1 and Series 3 are open for research. In Series 2, administrative files older than 25 years that do not contain student educational records, faculty personnel matters or trustee issues are open. Series 2 must be reviewed for potentially restricted records before access is given. Please contact the University Archives prior to your visit.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series 1: Records of the University Research Board and its Predecessors, 1925-1982 consists of subject files, financial records, correspondence, and some meeting minutes of the University Research Board, the Scientific Research Committee, the University Research Committee, and the Committee on Project Research and Inventions, most of it dating from the 1920s through the early 1970s.

Arrangement

The materials in Series 1: Records of the University Research Board and its Predecessors, 1925-1982 have not been arranged in any particular order.

Physical Description

11 boxes

Scientific Research Committee -- Correspondence, 1925-1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scientific Research Committee -- Minutes, 1927-1944. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scientific Research Committee -- Financial Statements, 1928-1933. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Committee on Project Research and Inventions -- Miscellaneous Papers from Ricardo A. Mestres Files, 1949-1957. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Committee -- Correspondence with Princeton University Press, 1940-1963. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Committee -- Miscellaneous Correspondence from Graduate School Office Files, 1944-1963. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Committee in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- Grants, 1938-1974. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Committee in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- Memoranda, 1937-1977. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- Projects, 1961-1970. 2 boxes.
Physical Description

2 boxes

University Research Board -- General Information, 1960-1963. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- Minutes, 1961-1970. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board, 1970-1974. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Office of Research and Project Administration, 1968-1974. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

History of the Office of Research and Project Administration -- Raymond J. Woodrow, 1957-1972. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- Daily Princetonian Articles, 1982. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- Personnel Subcommittee, 1960-1970. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- General Information, 1969-1971. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Physical Description

1 box

Purchasing, 1945-1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

General Administration, 1947-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Athletics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Chapel, etc., Student Christian Association, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Controller's Office, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Director of Admissions, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Dean of College, 1947-1950. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Endowment, etc., 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Graduate Council, 1948-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Graduate School, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Grounds and Buildings, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Health, 1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Public Relations, circa 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Secretary, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Dormitories and Rental Properties, etc., 1948-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Architecture, Art, and Archaeology, 1948-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Astronomy, 1940-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Biology, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Chemistry, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Classics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Economics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Engineering, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

English, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Geology, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

History, 1948-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Mathematics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Modern Languages, 1947-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Music, 1947-1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Oriental Languages, 1947-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Politics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Religion, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Psychology, 1948-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

School of Public and International Affairs, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Physics, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Philosophy, 1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Library, 1947-1949. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Princeton University Budget, 1939-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Correspondence Regarding Technical Illustration, 1946-1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Telemetering, 1946. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

The University Players, 1960. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

H.D. Smyth - Health, Education, and Welfare (Buildings), Deactivated, 1961. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

The Upjohn Company, Biology - Swingle, 1942. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Urban Research, 1950. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

War Department Circulars, 1946. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

War Assets Administration Contract 1036 -- Contract Correspondence, 1947-1948. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

War Department Procurement Regulations, 1946. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Work-Study Program, 1951. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Series 2: Board Meeting Minutes and Related Materials, 1983-1990 consists of meeting minutes and some associated materials for the board of the Office of Research and Project Administration and the University Research Board. Some earlier minutes from the University Research Board can also be found in Series 1.

Minutes from University Research Board meetings from 1959 to 1982 can be found in Office of Research and Project Administration Records (AC132).

Arrangement

The materials in Series 2: Board Meeting Minutes and Related Materials, 1983-1990 are arranged by originating organization (Office of Research and Project Administration or University Research Board) and thereunder chronologically.

Physical Description

8 boxes

Office of Research and Project Administration -- Minutes of Board Meetings, 1983-1985. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board -- Minutes and Related Materials, 1986-1990. 2 boxes.
Physical Description

2 boxes

URB Committee Reports, 1990-2000. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Includes subject history index (3 x 5) with floppy disk labeled "URB Data/ URB Index(s)"; committee membership rosters; reports from URB to the Priorities Committee; A/R tuition awards; URB correspondence; URB minutes binder.

Physical Description

1 box

URB Meeting Minutes [330th-362nd meetings], 1995-2000. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

URB Meeting Minutes [363rd-376th meetings], 2000-2002. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

URB Meeting Minutes [377th-386th meetings], 2002-2003. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

URB Meeting Minutes [387th-394th meetings], 2003-2004. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

URB Meeting Minutes [395th-406th meetings], 2005-2006. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Series 3: Reports, 1945-2006 consists of printed reports of the activities of the Unviersity Research Board and its predecessors, including annual reports.

Arrangement

The materials in Series 3: Reports, 1945-2006 are arranged chronologically.

Physical Description

6 boxes

Princeton's Program of Scholarship and Research: A Report to the University Faculty by the Dean of the Graduate School, 1945 July. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Report to Princeton University from Research Corporation, 1939-1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Sponsored Research Projects in Departments of Instruction, Committee on Project Research and Inventions, 1948/1949-1957/1958. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of Committee on Project Research and Inventions, Sponsored Research Projects, 1958/1959. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

University Research Board: Policies and Procedures for Personnel Participating in Sponsored Research, 1960 July 1. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of the University Research Board and the Office of Research Administration, 1959/1960. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of the University Research Board and the Office of Research Administration, 1962/1963-1963/1964. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Report of the Chairman of the University Research Board and Annual Report of the Office of Research and Project Administration, 1966/1967. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of the University Research Board and the Office of Research Administration, 1967/1968-1968/1969. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Report of the Chairman of the University Research Board and Annual Report of the Office of Research and Project Administration, 1969/1970-1975/1976. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Recommendations for the Conduct of Research with Biohazardous Material at Princeton University, 1976 December 6. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of the University Research Board and Office of Research and Project Administration, 1981/1982-1990/1991. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Report of the University Research Board and Office of Research and Project Administration, 1991/1992-1996/1997. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Sponsored Research Project Summaries [annual reports], 1946-1959. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Annual Reports of the University Research Board and the Office of Research Administration, with supplementary documents, 1961-1992. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

This box contains some duplicates of annual reports in Box 16.

Physical Description

1 box

Annual Reports of the University Research Board and the Office of Research Administration, with supplementary documents, 1992-2006. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

This box contains a cd labeled "ORPA Annual Report FY '03" with the 2003-2004 annual report. This box contains some duplicates of annual reports in Box 17.

Physical Description

1 box

Print, Suggest