Table of Contents

Foreword - Stanley O. Ikenberry, President Emeritus; Foreword - Richard H. Herman, Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign Campus; Preface; 1. Forging the Proposal; 2. October 5, 1985: The Institute Is Born; 3. Building the Institute; 4. Choosing Programs; 5. The Institute Goes Public; 6. Bringing the Institute to Life; 7. The Beckman Foundation: Arnold's Last Years; Appendix 1. Letters of Appointment of Faculty Committees to Prepare Proposals; Appendix 2. Letters of Appointment of Program Committees; Appendix 3. Instructions for Proposal Submission; Index

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About the Author

Theodore L. Brown is the founding director of the Beckman Institute and a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also served as dean of the Graduate College, vice chancellor for research, and interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. He is the author of Making Truth: Metaphor in Science and Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science and a coauthor of Chemistry: The Central Science.

Reviews

"In many respects the Beckman Institute evolved from the scientific and technological strengths and culture of the Urbana-Champaign campus. In other ways, however, it changed the campus profoundly. Interdisciplinary collaboration and the capacity to attract exciting new faculty talent had long been a part of the Illinois tradition, but the Beckman Institute made a profound difference that endures today."--from the foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry, Regent Professor and President Emeritus of the University of Illinois