Recommendation from the Coordinating Committee on Education
(Avron Abraham, Chair) with the concurrence of the Executive Committee
(Charles Boncelet, Chair) for the merger of the Department of Physics
and Astronomy and Bartol Research Institute.
Whereas, faculty in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy and
Bartol Research Institute have voted to merge into a single unit
with
the name Department of Physics and Astronomy and
Whereas, the proposal for
this merger is acceptable to the Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences and to the Provost, be it
therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty
Senate recommends the proposed
merger of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Bartol Research
Institute into single unit to be effective as of July 1, 2005.