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U.VA. BOARD OF VISITORS ESTABLISHES THREE PROFESSORSHIPS


      CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 9 -- Three new chaired
professorships were established by the University of Virginia
Board of Visitors at its meeting here today, bringing the number
of endowed chairs to 369.
      In the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration,
the board established the Alumni Research Professorship in
Business Administration, which will be used to attract eminent
business scholars doing research in the area of leadership.  The
chair, which  honors the distinguished teaching and research of
Darden School professor John L. Colley Jr., was made possible by
an anonymous gift from a graduate of the school.  It will be
renamed the John L. Colley Jr. Research Professorship upon
Colley's retirement.
      In the School of Medicine, the board established the James
M. Moss Professorship in Diabetes,  for a faculty member who will
focus on education, research and patient care in the field of
diabetes.  The chair  was made possible by a gift from Dr. James
M. Moss' widow, Rachel, his son, William, and his stepmother,
Catharine.  Dr. Moss graduated from the School of Medicine in
1941 and served as president of the U.Va. Medical Alumni
Association, and in leading roles in Virginia and national
medical and diabetes education societies. He was a member of the
clinical faculties of Georgetown University Hospital and D.C.
General Hospital.
      In the White Burket Miller Center of Public Affairs, the
board established the C.K. Yen Professorship, for a scholar who
will focus on the study of political leadership in Asia. Made
possible by a gift from the government of the Republic of China
on Taiwan, the chair is named for a former president of the
republic. It will assure the continuation and expansion of a
Miller Center program on Asian political leadership  directed by
S.C. Leng,  son-in-law of C.K. Yen.


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                                                                  June 9, 1995