Contains committee and board records, appointment materials, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, guidelines, schedules, funding and general financial records, program components, development materials, brochures, construction records, newspaper articles, research newsletters, presentations, research papers, and subject files on individual researchers and partner medical, technological, and educational institutions involved in the Duke Scientific Research Initiative. Special focus given to the Keck Proposal and the Academic Councils. Materials date from 1987 to 1994.