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Report from the Vice President for Research

Report from the Vice President for Research. Jorge José Vice President for Research August, 2011. FY 2011: A Very Good Year for Research & Creative Activity at IU. In a challenging environment, notable successes:

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Report from the Vice President for Research

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  1. Report from the Vice President for Research Jorge José Vice President for Research August, 2011

  2. FY 2011: A Very Good Year for Research & Creative Activity at IU • In a challenging environment, notable successes: • Faculty elected fellows of AAAS, Institute of Medicine, American Philosophical Society; • Major new funding from Fairbanks Foundation, U.S. Army, U.S. State Department, NASA (just to name a few) • IU receives AAHRPP accreditation, successful launch of Kuali/Coeus. • Successful system-to-system submission of proposals to both DoD and NIH

  3. Cont... • School of Education’s Center for Social Studies and International Education receives $3.49m to develop and implement master’s degree program at Kabul Education University • SoM’sNiculescu received NIH Director’s New Innovator Award • SLA’s Karen Kovacik named Indiana State Poet Laureate

  4. Cont. … • CoAS’sCraig Pikaard named Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator • IU research expenditures in FY 2011: $509 million (475M in 2010) (+7%)

  5. Federal Funding Environment

  6. Sponsored Program Proposals & Awards FY 2007 - 2011

  7. Sponsored Program Awards FY 2007 – 2011 (by chart group)

  8. Awards by Source FY 2007 - 2011

  9. Sponsored Awards by SourceFY 2010 - 2011 $488M $603M $62M in ARRA awards State awards decreased by 66% $60M from Lilly

  10. Focusing on Research Expenditures

  11. Sponsored Program Expenditures by source 2007 -2011

  12. Sponsored Program Expenditures by chart group

  13. NSF HERD Expenditures

  14. NSF HERD Expenditures by chart group FY 2010: as reported to NSF FY 2011: preliminary 7% increase in research expenditures in FY 2011

  15. Beyond the numbers … Highlights in research & creative activity, FY 2011 • IU Distinguished Professor Emerita Susan Gubar admitted to American Philosophical Society • 3 IUB professors win Guggenheim Fellowships • School of Education’s Center for Adolescent & Family Studies receives $3.8M from NIMH, to study ways to improve mental health services (in collaboration with Vanderbilt University) • Nursing’s Victoria Champion awarded $3.6M from NCI

  16. Cont… • E&T’s Yaobin Chen awarded $2.5M from Toyota to develop pedestrian crash scenarios • CoAS biologists’ proof of “Red Queen Hypothesis” reported by BBC, NPR, Washington Post, Discover and others • Lilly Endowment awards $4M for CLEAR, collaboration of Schools of Informatics & Computing, Law, Medicine, OVPIT • SPEA’s Joseph Shaw awarded $2.3M by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  17. Cont… • USAID awarded Kelley’s Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship $1.75M to spur entrepreneurship in Barbados • Jacobs School premieres Vincent composed by Bernard Rands • SoMand CoAScollaboration awarded $7M from NIH’s Human Microbe Project

  18. Highlights in (support for) research & creative activity, FY 2011 • ORA and UITS successfully implement KualiCoeus. ORA launches award-winning MyRA dashboard • 1st in US to implement fully • Proactive planning for large-scale collaborative funding opportunities (e.g., NSF Science & Technology Centers program, NSF IGERT) • Human Subjects Research Protection Programs receive 5 year AAHRPP accreditation • Catalyzing collaborations (e.g., epigenetics forum)

  19. Cont… • 165 proposals received for new IU Collaborative Research Grants program (IUCRG) • 18 awards madeto 42 faculty members from 3 campuses, 8 schools • 6 projects involve cross-campus collaborations (IUB + IUPUI) • 64 proposals received for New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities program • 22 awards to faculty from 4 campuses

  20. Challenges & Responses • Within Human Subjects Research Protection Program offices • A “perfect storm” of difficulties: staff turnover, changes in regulatory requirements and thus procedures, and new computer system (Coeus IRB) • Currently hiring 7 new staff members, evaluating training and development programs, communications with PIs re: changes in procedures and forms

  21. Cont… • Related to development of policies • Early submission of materials to Grants & Contracts • Establishing and reviewing Research Centers and Institutes • Currently reviewing our ways of getting input, feedback, and communicating with faculty members, associate deans, and deans • Continuing to review policies so as to simplify, coordinate, and clarify

  22. Looking ahead … • Identify areas of broad strength, catalyze collaborations across schools and campuses • Help Deans, departments increase faculty nominations for honors, fellowships in academic societies • Continue to enhance system support for faculty and researchers ~ proposal development, submission, and compliance • Work with faculty, administrators to enhance probability of large-scale funding successes

  23. The end! • Questions, comments, discussion?

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