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UT Center for Excellence in Centaur Studies

UT Center for Excellence in Centaur Studies . A Unique Opportunity to Increase Federal Funding . Becoming a Top 25 Research University. Ranking based on: NSF R&D expenditures in science and engineering at public universities and colleges

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UT Center for Excellence in Centaur Studies

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  1. UT Center for Excellence in Centaur Studies A Unique Opportunity to Increase Federal Funding

  2. Becoming a Top 25 Research University • Ranking based on: NSF R&D expenditures in science and engineering at public universities and colleges • Specific list: Federally financed R&D expenditures at public universities and colleges • Latest available report FY1999

  3. Where are we in the list? • UT = #46 with $70.2 million • UVA = #25 with $108.5 million • UW= #1 with $386.1 million

  4. What can we do to move up? • Add at least $50 million yearly in federal funding • How?

  5. Projected Federal Funding

  6. Center for Centaur Studies • Centaur Genome project as centerpiece to target NIH funding • Interdisciplinary studies in other areas to target NSF, NEH, and others

  7. UT Resources for Genome Studies • Only repository of centaur skeletal & tissue samples • Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics • Forensic Anthropology Center • Center for Livestock Disease and Human Health • UT/ORNL collaborations

  8. Centaur Genome Projects • Stem cell research • Aging • Neuroscience

  9. Interdisciplinary Projects • Substance abuse • The Party • Animal-human bonds

  10. Institutional Barriers • Lack of official acceptance for the existence of centaurs • NIH refusal to assign category for centaur research subjects

  11. Why is the existence of centaurs questioned? • Historical retreat • End of interspecies communication • Centaur distrust of human science

  12. Centaurs for the Ethical Treatment of Hippomorphs (CETH)

  13. CETH Initiatives • Repatriation demand • deCode Genetics • Is Kari Stefansson a centaur?

  14. The Centaur Liberation Front • Mary “Aphrodite” Rennpferd

  15. Centaur Liberation Front • Mick “The Body” Saumpferd

  16. How can we move forward? • Work with CETH and “responsible” centaurs to establish partnerships for research • Recruit centaur graduate students and postdocs • Lobby with NIH to establish a special “crossover” area

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