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tration, political behavior, and public policy in Florida; publishes research
studies and surveys of administrative and political problems in both scientific
and popular monograph form; and publishes a Civic Information Series
annually for assistance to citizen groups in their study of current issues in
the state.

 THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS is a research agency ad-
 ministered through the Department of Political Science to conduct studies in
 international relations.

 THE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTER OF THE COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM
 AND COMMUNICATIONS conducts research in the news media, broadcasting, ad-
 vertising, and public opinion.

 THE FLORIDA WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER was established in
 1964 as the result of the passage of P.L. 88-379-The Water Resources Re-
 search Act of 1964-"to stimulate, sponsor, provide for, and supplement
 present programs for conduct of research, investigation, experiments, and the
 training of scientists in the fields of water and of resources which affect water."
 The Center has a small administrative staff and the funds available to it are
 used largely in water research projects. It is under the general policy guidance
 of a committee composed of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the
 deans of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Law, the Dean
 for Research of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and the
 Director of the Division of Sponsored Research.

 THE HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH DIVISION is an interdisciplinary activity
 organized within the office of the Provost, J. Hillis Miller Health Center. Its
 function is to design and conduct systems research aimed toward improve-
 ments in the effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of all types of health
 services and the development of methods for the optimal allocation of health
 resources. Research projects are carried out in and for the Shands Teaching
 Hospital and Clinics and the various colleges of the Health Center by faculty
 and graduate students from a number of academic disciplines, especially the
 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the graduate program
 in Health and Hospital Administration. In addition to research efforts for
 health units within the University of Florida supported by the state or by
 research grants from outside sources, projects are conducted on a contract
 basis for health organizations and agencies outside the University.

 THE CENTER FOR AERONOMY AND OTHER ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES (ICAAS)
is a community of scholars drawn from many disciplines represented at the
University of Florida. Each scholar has an established professional knowledge
and research capability in the atmospheric sciences or in physical, biological,
or societal disciplines that relate closely to our atmospheric environment. As
an interdisciplinary center, ICAAS promotes pure and applied research in the
atmospheric sciences and provides machinery for translating research into