TWO NEW ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS ESTABLISHED

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 14 -- The University of
Virginia's Board of Visitors established two new endowed
professorships, in the School of Medicine and in the College and
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, at its meeting here today.
The action brings the total of endowed chairs at U.Va. to 379.
	In Arts and Sciences the board established the Horace W.
Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities to
honor outstanding dedication and skill in teaching.  
	The professorship is being established by a gift of $300,000
from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, with an additional $100,000
in support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	The New York City-based Goldsmith Foundation and the
foundation's managing director and chief executive officer, James C.
Slaughter (Col. '49, Law '51), are widely known for their commitment
to higher education.  Slaughter helped found the U.Va. Student Legal
Forum as a student and is a member of the law school's Capital
Campaign executive committee and the Law Grounds Building Advisory
Committee.  He also made the law school's first major capital
campaign commitment.  In addition to his own gifts, Slaughter's
professional accomplishments have brought the law school a
scholarship and award in his name.
	Becton Dickinson and Company, a manufacturer of medical
supplies and diagnostic systems based in Franklin Lakes, N.J.,
pledged $750,000 to the School of Medicine to establish an endowed
professorship that will support the director of the International
Health Care Worker Safety Center. 
	The center, led by U.Va.'s Janine Jagger, has been a pioneer
in research and prevention of occupationally transmitted bloodborne
pathogens.
	Jagger, who is associate professor of research in health
evaluation sciences, conducts epidemiological research, provides
consultation and methodological expertise to researchers around the
world, and serves as an international resource for information on
advances in preventing the occupational transmission of bloodborne
infections.  In 1992, with the support and collaboration of Becton
Dickinson, Jagger translated her research findings into a
surveillance system called Exposure Prevention Information Network
(EPINet).  The system is used by more than 1,200 hospitals in the
United States and abroad to collect data on the causes and
prevention of needlesticks and adverse blood exposures to health
care workers.
	In 1995, U.Va. and Becton Dickinson entered into an
agreement with the Association of Operating Room Nurses to establish
a national surveillance network of surgical departments to document
the injury risk unique to surgical instruments and operating room
procedures.
	 Both gifts are part of the Campaign for the University of
Virginia, the five-year, $750,000 million fund-raising effort that
was launched in October.  As of April 30, the campaign has raised
$421 million.  
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June 14, 1996