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Information Services file on Robert L. Ketter

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4-11-65

Scope and Contents

Clippings and press releases on University at Buffalo President Robert L. Ketter, as collected by the Office of Information Services. Coverage begins prior to Ketter's inauguration as President, and continues until his death in 1989.

Dates

  • 1963-1989

Terms of Access and Use

Information Services file on Robert L. Ketter is open to researchers.

Copyright

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and University Archives before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Biographical Note

Robert Lewis Ketter was born in 1929 in Welch, West Virginia; earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Missouri, Columbia in 1950; earned an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1952 and a Ph.D., also in civil engineering, at Lehigh in 1956, where he taught as associate professor.

In 1958 he came to the University of Buffalo to act as chair of the Civil Engineering Department, and in 1965 was named Dean of the graduate School. In 1967, Ketter became Vice President of Facilities Planning, where he would be responsible for much of the planning, design and construction of UB's new Amherst Campus.

In 1971 Ketter was inaugurated as President of the University, a post he held until 1982 in addition to teaching civil engineering. In 1985 he was named Director of UB's Earthquake Engineering and Systems Dynamics Laboratories, and in 1986 Ketter was instrumental in obtaining a grant from the National Science Foundation to found the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, of which he was also Director. In 1986 the University named a building after Ketter (home to the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering). He was recipient of several honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Engineering form Lehigh University, 1986, and a Doctor of Science from Kyoungpook University, S. Korea, 1973. Ketter died in 1989.

Extent

.8 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Clippings and press releases on University at Buffalo President Robert L. Ketter, as collected by the Office of Information Services.

Arrangement

Chronological.

Acquisition Information

The Information Services file on Robert L. Ketter was transferred to University Archives in an unrecorded accession (likely by the Office of Information Services).

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Archives staff, date unrecorded; finding aid encoded by Amy Vilz, May 2019.

Source

Title
Finding Aid for the Information Services file on Robert L. Ketter
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Archives staff
Date
31 May 2019
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives Repository

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