Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

Units and Programs

April 2010

Recent Research HighlightsTwo NSF Science and Technology Centers

• Hsia, Gillette, Bashir and Saif partner on “Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems”

• Coleman, Kumar and Milenkovic partner on “Frontiers of Science of Information”

Gerlt NIH “Glue Grant” for Enzyme Functionality Initiative

Illinois Historian Antoinette Burton wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Richard Powers elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters

Recent awards relating to Health• Gunter HHS grant for Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research

Projects on Security (SHARPS)

• Saif NSF grant “Regulation of Cancer Cell Metastasis by Mechanical Force”

Recent Research Highlights

Three NSF Awards Connect Social Science and Science Research

• Geographically dispersed R&D teams (Betty Barrett)

• Diversity and turnover in research labs (Aparna Joshi)

• Stakeholder alignment in complex systems ( Joel Cutcher-Gershonfeld)

Last week, six single investigator NSF awards totaling $1.93M and two NIH totaling $663K demonstrate our faculty’s success in obtaining external funding

Tremendous faculty response to stimulus funding opportunities (April 2010 data)

• 146 awards ($122M )

FY08 Total R&D Expenditures reported to NSF were $501,279,000, a 6% increase over FY07

Federal$267M, 53%

Other$14.9M, 3%

State$36.9M, 7%

Industry$20.7M, 4%

Institutional$161.8M, 32%

The VCR Manages Units and Programs

Research Institutes

Research Compliance

Research Services

Campus Research Board

Strategic Programs

www.research.illinois.edu

Research Institutes and Scholarship

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Institute for Genomic Biology

Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability

Beckman Institute

Center for Advanced Study

Shepherding New Campus Research Initiatives

Interactions with Deans, Center Directors• Energy

• Advanced Digital Sciences Center In Singapore

• Bringing together Campus excellence in Health – Division of Biomedical Sciences

• Climate Change

Research Compliance Units

Human Subjects (and Scientific Diving)

Animal Care and Use

Research Standards

Research Safety – Bio, Chem, Radiation

Conflict of Interest Management

Stem Cells

Ensure research and economic development are carried out in compliance with federal regulations and university policies

Research ComplianceMandated burden on faculty is significant and increasing (FDP

Survey)

Appointed VCR Research Compliance Advisory Committee

Conducted Client Surveys

Hosted “town meeting” to present survey results• Respondents were generally satisfied regarding the courtesy, support and

responsiveness shown by the staff in the various units.

• While researchers understand and support the need for compliance oversight and process, they are frustrated by the time devoted to protocol submission and review processes.

Initiated development of web-based solutions

Research Board Summary – FY09232 requests totaled $3.88M million (23.3% Fine and Applied

Arts, 22.4% Humanities, 12.9% Life Sciences and Agriculture, 13.8% Physical Sciences and Engineering, 19% Social Sciences and Education). 

$2.1million awarded (19.8% Fine and Applied Arts, 27.1% Humanities, 10.2% Life Sciences and Agriculture, 14.1% Physical Sciences and Engineering, 20.9% Social Sciences and Education). 

Approximately half of the funding was awarded to support research assistantships. 

Scholars' Travel Fund awards in FY09 totaled $356,125 for 451 requests, compared to $390,996 for 550 requests in FY08.

Research Board News

No reduction in institutional funding for FY1

Applications will become electronic

Two submission deadlines per semester

Looking at innovative ways to support nascent potentially transformational ideas

Proposal development workshops will be offered.

National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsHome of the Blue Waters Supercomputing Systems for

Petascale Computing

Deploying systems targeted to discipline-based researchers and their problems

Large-scale supercomputing and data resources available to researchers on and off campus

Expert User Services

NCSA Faculty Fellows Program and IACAT

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu

Institute for Genomic Biology

Advancing life science research and stimulating bio-economic development in the state of Illinois

The $75 million, 186,000 square foot state-of-the-art IGB facility houses approximately 400 researchers in nine thematic areas.

Home to the BP-funded Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI)

www.igb.illinois.edu

Institute of Natural Resource SustainabilityIncorporates five Illinois State Surveys into a single

Institute within the University• Illinois State Geological Survey

• Illinois State Water Survey

• Illinois Natural History Survey

• Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

• Illinois State Archaeological Survey

The $42 million institute has 540 employees

www.research.illinois.edu/inrswww.research.illinois.edu/inrs