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Research at Rice University
Jim Coleman Vice Provost for Research jsc2_at_rice.ed
u (713)-348-2702
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A Little Bit About Me

• Grew up in Pittsburgh the son of an urban
  civil rights leader/ academic and a special ed.
  teacher/hlth care social worker
• Plant Physiological Ecologist- no active lab,
  but still active (paper in Nature last year)
• Response of plants and ecosystems to global
  change function and significance of variation
  in plant heat shock proteins
• Serendipitously discovered academic
  administration
• Responsible for the first goal in Rices vision
  for the second century

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Research The first Goal Expressed in the V2C
A VISION FOR THE SECOND CENTURY 1. We must
visibly and substantially increase our commitment
to our research mission and raise our research
and scholarship profile. We must especially
focus on departments and disciplines in
strategically selected areas where we have an
opportunity to achieve nationally and
internationally recognized levels of distinction
and achievement. Success in this endeavor will
require significant investments in and
improvements to our research support, physical
facilities, and information technology
infrastructure.
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Research Connects to Other Goals of the V2C
Undergraduate Experiences
Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs
Engage with Houston
Research, Creation, Innovation Scholarship
Facilities for Intellectual Vibrancy
Collaborative and Interdisciplinary
Increase Size And Quality
Inter- nationalization
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How do you measure research?How is Rice doing?
Research _at_ Rice

• Externally sponsored research dollars
• Productivity (e.g., papers, books, performances,
  competitiveness for grants)
• Innovation (e.g., patents, start-ups)
• Effect on the field (e.g., recognition, awards,
  citations)
• Effect on the world

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Federal research funding has been flat since 2003
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Sponsored project expenditures grew a healthy
7.6 last year
Sponsored Project Expenditures 2005-2009 (overall
21 growth while federal research has been flat)
90,000
7.6
2.9
80,000
7.4
1.9
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
FY 2005
FY 2006
FY 2007
FY 2008
FY 2009
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Sponsored project awards were down from the 2008
peak, but the upward trend continues
120,000,000
100,000,000
Note Rice received approximately 36,000,000 in
new awards in the first six weeks of FY 2010
80,000,000
Sponsored Project Awards
60,000,000
40,000,000
20,000,000
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
250,000,000
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200,000,000
150,000,000
Two Year Sum of Sponsored Project Awards
100,000,000
50,000,000
0
20042005
2006 2007
2008 2009
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Rices Growth in Federal Research is Strong
Relative to Peers
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Rices Total Federal Research is Well Below Peers
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What About per Faculty Member? Rice Faculty are
High Performers
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Faculty Productivity Rankings Rice has Several
Highly Ranked Programs
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index

• Electrical Engineering - 1
• Computer Science - 1
• Computer Engineering - 4
• Bioengineering - 5
• Religious Studies - 5
• History - 9
• Computational Sciences - 10

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Rice is a Very Innovative Place
Invention Disclosures per 1M in research
FY 2008 preliminary AUTM stats
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Rices patent portfolio has the highest impact
of any university
Rices portfolio is small 150 issued patents
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Rices patent portfolio is ranked in the top 5
overall
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Qualitative Measures of Productivity Publishing
in the Best Journals
Rice University averaged having authors on more
than 1 paper per month in Science or Nature
(including two covers) last year
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Rice Optics Pioneer Wins Major DoD Award
Naomi Halas received a National Security Science
and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) from the
Department of Defense. She was one of just six
fellows chosen from more than 650 nominees. Her
project, 3D Nanophotonics Bending Light in New
Directions," encompasses a comprehensive research
program designed to broaden and redefine the
capabilities of engineered electromagnetic
nanomaterials that interact with both infrared
and visible light. Breakthroughs in the field
could form the basis for everything from
super-efficient solar power collectors to
next-generation camouflage
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FY 2009 Faculty Recognition
Farinaz Koushanfar was one of only 17 academics
recognized in the MIT Technology Review
innovators under 35. She was recognized for
developing new techniques that microchip
designers can use to fight hardware piracy, a
problem that's already believed to cost
chipmakers several billion dollars per year.
Doug Natelson was named one of the nations top
20 scientists under age 40 by Discover magazine
in its December, 2008 issue. He was cited as the
Benjamin Franklin of the microscopic world. Doug
and his team worked with single-molecule devices,
shrinking electrical circuits to an extremely
miniature scale. His research on organic
superconductors has engendered a buzz in the
science community.
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Recognition of junior faculty in FY 2009
Wotao Yin received a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Fellowship
Weiwei Zhong received a Searle Scholar Award
Jamie Padgett was named one of 14 new faces of
engineering by the National Engineers Week
Foundation
Eugene Ng received a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Fellowship
Nik Putnam received a Beckman Young Investigator
Award
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Two major young faculty awards in Geosciences
Cin-Ty received the American Geophysical Unions
first Hisashi Kuno Award in December 2008
recognizing outstanding contributions to
volcanology, geochemistry or petrology, based on
the quality of his publications. And, in February
2009, he was named the Geochemical Societys
winner of this year's F.W. Clarke Medal - an
honor given since 1972 that goes to an "early
career scientist for a single outstanding
contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry,
published either as a single paper or a series of
papers on a single topic. Cin-Ty was recognized
for his work on the effects of chemical
weathering on the composition of continents
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Other Major Research Related Awards to Rice
Faculty in FY 2009
The journal positions east asia cultures
critique, founded by Tani Barlow, won the 2008
Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for
Best Special Issue for War Capital Trauma
Naomi Halas was elected as a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Michael Maas was awarded a National Endowment for
the Humanities Fellowship
Jim Tour was awarded the Foresight Institute
Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology
Lars Lerup won the Rome Prize to study the
Pantheon
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Intellectual Engagement, e.g. Humanities Research
Center Symposium
Emerging Disciplines Symposium, September 18,
2009 The symposium will feature prominent
scholars from across academic disciplines who are
shaping important new fields of scholarly
inquiry. Participants will discuss the research
questions that have served as the impetus for
their new approaches, the methodological
strategies that their emerging field entails,
intellectual opportunities and challenges
requisite to the emerging field, graduate student
engagement, strategies for sustaining new
research models, and other related issues. The
speakers represent a broad range of
interdisciplinary fields, including music and the
mind, neurohistory, deep history, cultural
economy, cognitive approaches to art history,
digital humanities, and new approaches to
Americas studies. This one-day symposium is
sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Council
on Library and Information Resources, and Rice
University's Humanities Research Center.
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The BioScience Research Collaborative
http//www.rice.edu/brc/
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Research at Rice University What resources does
Rice have for you?
Jim Coleman Vice Provost for Research jsc2_at_rice.ed
u (713)-348-2702
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The Office of Research website should be a good
resource
http//research.rice.edu
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So, what kinds of resources are available to help
you with your research?

• The Rice Office of Research What do we do to try
  and help you be productive in your research?
• Money
• Faculty Initiatives Fund
• Collaborative Research Fund
• Matching Funds
• Identifying opportunities for research funding
  helping you get your proposal funded helping you
  develop and submit proposals and managing
  limited submission opportunities
• Protecting intellectual property commercializing
  inventions and getting deals done with
  non-traditional sponsors
• Facilitating your ability to do research by
  working with you to comply with laws and
  regulations governing research activity
• Connecting you with federal and state agencies
  and ensuring that Rice has a strategic research
  plan with federal and state government
• Celebrating and communicating Rices success in
  research and connecting Rice with new research
  sponsors

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So, what kinds of resources are available to help
you with your research?

• The Rice Office of Research
• Office of Sponsored Research (Sarah White)
• Office of Technology Transfer (Nila Bhakuni)
• Office of Animal Resources (Kelly Campbell)
• Shared Equipment Authority (Vicki Colvin)
• Proposal Development (searching now)
• Rice Alliance (w/ three Deans Brad Burke)
• Gulf Coast Consortium (Karen Ethun)
• BioScience Research Collaborative (Diana Welch
  Cindy Farach-Carson)
• Rice 360o Institute for Global Health
  Technologies (Rebecca Richards-Kortum)
• Rice Building Institute (Joe Powell)

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So, what kinds of resources are available to help
you with your research?

• Some other campus-wide offices that support
  research
• Research Accounting (Chuck Tarantino)
• Foundation and Corporate Relations (Katie
  Cervenka Marybeth Savicki Katie Noble)
• Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Paula Sanders)
• Undergraduate Research (Kellie Sims Butler)
• Government Relations (Ray Martinez)
• International Students and Scholars (Adria Baker)
• Fondren Library (Sara Lowman Geneva Henry)
• General Counsel (Richard Zansitis)

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So, what kinds of resources are available to help
you with your research?

• Other campus-wide entities that support research
  Rice Institutes
• Baker Institute for Public Policy (Amb.
  Djerejian)
• Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and
  Technology (Wade Adams)
• Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering
  (Yousif Shamoo and Stacey Kalovidouris)
• Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
  (Moshe Vardi and Jan Odegard)
• Energy and Environmental Systems Institute
  (Walter Chapman and Emil Pena)
• Rice Quantum Institute (Randy Hulet and Bruce
  Johnson)
• Rice Space Institute (Pat Reiff)

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Thank you and welcome to Rice!
http//research.rice.edu
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Research at Rice University
Jim Coleman Vice Provost for Research jsc2_at_rice.ed
u (713)-348-2702
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There have been more than 30 Rice related
start-up companies over the past 8 years (top ten
in start-ups/research )

• 1. Advanced Biosciences- (Matsuda)
• Advanced Reality - (Ruths- grad student)
• Applied NanoFluorescence- (Weisman)
• Aristan Medical - (Athanasiou)
• BetaBatt - (Engel)
• 6. BioSonic (Liebschner)
• 7. Cambrios (affiliated company)- (Smalley)
• 8. CNI (now Unidym)- (Smalley, Hauge, et al.)
• 9. Desmogen- (Mikos)
• 10. Ensysce Biosciences- (Weisman, Wilson)
• 11. Glycos Biotechnology- (Gonzalez)
• 12. Houston Medical Robotics- (OMalley)
• 13. itRobotics- (Ghorbel)
• 14. LaserGen (BCM with Rice)- (BCM-Metzger
  Rice-Curl)
• 15. Mass Specific Force- (Weyand)
• 16. Molecular Electronics Corp. (inactive)-
  (Tour)
• 17. MTPE (Museums Teaching Planet Earth)
  (Reiff)
• NanoComposites (Tour)
• Nanopartz (Zubarev)

Carbon Nanotechnologies Incorporated
Nanospectra Biosciences
inactive
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But, what if you think of Rice as the academic
campus of the TMC?
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Rice is a Top Three Institution in Preparing
Undergraduate Students for Graduate Study