FSU's School of Info Studies endows first chair: it's McClure.(Florida State University selects Charles McClure as Francis Eppes Professor)(Brief Article)

Florida State University has created the first endowed chair in its School of Information Studies (SIS)--the first of ten endowed chairs the university will create with money made available by FSU's patent on the cancer-fighting drug Taxol. The chair, which will be known as the Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies, includes an annual stipend of $40,000 to be used by the Eppes Professor at his or her discretion, said Dean of Information Studies Jane Robbins. Robbins suggested that the school's impressive growth was one of the reasons it was the first chosen for a university-endowed chair. The school's student …