The LSU Board of Supervisors will consider the naming of a new Boyd professor — the System’s highest academic rank — at today’s meeting.Keeping with tradition, the recipient’s identity is kept a secret until the Board votes on awarding the honor, System spokesman Charles Zewe said in an e-mail. The award is limited to professors who have attained national or international distinctions for outstanding research, teaching and other creative achievements.Sixty-six professors have been awarded Boyd rank since the initiation of the award in 1953, including 41 from the System’s main campus.The Board will also vote on approval for 14 new endowed professorships in medical education, basic sciences, engineering and the humanities at LSU institutions statewide, including five at the University.The East Baton Rouge 4-H Foundation, Inc. will present the Board with the recommendation to approve the donation and acceptance for a storage building located at the Agricultural Center’s Central Research Station.The University granted the Foundation the use of one acre of land located on Ben Hur Road in 1980 for the EBR 4-H Foundation Building.Now, the Foundation wants to donate an 11,320 square foot metal building to the University for the Agricultural Center’s storage needs.In return, the Foundation is requesting available storage space for equipment in the building. The estimated building value is $190,000.The Board will also vote on the approval on a license between the LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport and a Massachusetts research company. Aphios Corporation scientists are working on new uses for byostatins — anti-cancer drugs that hold promise in preventing tissue rejection.—-Contact Leslie Presnall at [email protected]