UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies, Office of the Director records, 1963-1994

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Great Lakes Studies. Office of the Director

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Collection consists of miscellaneous records of the center, mostly dating from the 1970s. The correspondence files include letters to and from UWM administrators concerning the center, including th...

Collection consists of miscellaneous records of the center, mostly dating from the 1970s. The correspondence files include letters to and from UWM administrators concerning the center, including the Dean of the College of Letters & Science Joseph G. Baier and Director Clifford H. Mortimer. The correspondence files document concerns over funding; the purchase of a research facility for the center; staffing, including the efforts to attract Mortimer to head the center; and research projects. Also contains some files on the Council for Marine Studies, which directed marine research at the UW campuses; the acquisition and conversion of the Research Vessel (R/V) Neeskay, including photographs of its launching; proposals and requests for additional support for the Sea Grant Program from the National Science Foundation; and the proceedings of the 1973 Conference on Port Planning and Development as Related to Problems of U.S. Ports and the U.S. Coastal Environment. About half of the collection consists of publications issued by the Center, most dating from the 1970s.

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