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.