Report to the UWM Faculty Senate Research Policy Committee Prasenjit Guptasarma (P.G.) Department of Physics, L&S pg@uwm.edu
RPC: Members & Guests • Larry Martin • Fred Helmstetter • Janice Eells • Melissa Woo • Arun Garg • Mark Harris • Frederick Goetz • Eva Barczyk • Prasenjit Guptasarma (chair) • Colin Scanes • Bonita Klein Tasman • David Stack • Christine Larson • Mark Doremus • Gabriel Rei Doval
Topics • Cost Reimbursible Contracts and Fixed Price Contracts; • Definition of ‘off-campus’ for calculation of indirect costs; • How to divide budget for awards to multiple Principal Investigators: – Pre-proposal budget, – Final budget, – Indirect costs, – 150 returns. • Intramural Competitions for External Research Grants.
Topics • Clinical and Translational Science Institute; • Research Growth Initiative; • Research Cyber Infrastructure Working Group; • Master Planning; • Shared Research Resources (e.g. library); • Severe Lack of Support Infrastructure to perform extramurally funded research at UWM; • Lack of incentives to run a full-fledged research program at UWM: – Extramurally-funded research; – Self-funded research.
Cost Reimbursible Contracts and Fixed Price Contracts – Extramurally funded research contracts can be on either a: • Cost reimbursible basis – typical NSF, NIH, others. • Fixed price basis - requires deliverables regardless of cost to university. Sometimes, indirect costs (“campus taxes”) are not budgeted in second case; resulting in higher cost to the institution. This policy offers guidelines for preparation and presentation of such budgets. Definition of ‘off-campus’ for calculation of indirect costs Research performed ‘off-campus’ is taxed (indirect costs) at a different rate compared with research performed ‘on campus’. This policy defines the M7 counties in SE Wisconsin as UWM ‘on campus’ area, subject to exceptions by VC-Research.
Dividing money for awards to multiple PIs • PIs and Deans must identify, before submitting budget or soon after submission of proposal, how the money would be shared between colleges/PIs. – Project costs; – Indirect costs; – 150 returns. • This is especially critical when sharing between colleges. Intramural Competitions for External Research Grants. Campus policy on extramural competitions with limited number of submissions per campus: • Intramural competitions: recent disagreements on procedure (needed to re-do a competition after decision had been taken). • How to inform everyone interested (through chairs, deans, email to everyone).
Clinical and Translational Science Institute • NIH clinical and translational science awards can support about half the medical schools in the country. • ‘CTSI’ is a new Institute centered at MCW to enable collaborative grant funding; offers numerous opportunities to UWM researchers; broad collaborative projects in SE Wisconsin. Research Growth Initiative • Report on general health of the RGI program. Research Cyber Infrastructure Working Group • Develop a prioritized list of research technology requirements, services, and recommendations for best practices. Harris and Helmstetter overlap with RCI and RPC.
Master Planning • Guptasarma (RPC chair) working on three different Master Planning Committees (help!) • Bring forward needs of researchers at these committees. Shared Research Resources (e.g. library) • Lack of adequate electronic journal access at UWM; how to handle subscriptions vis a vis research needs. Ongoing discussions. Severe Lack of Support Infrastructure to perform extramurally funded research at UWM Lack of incentives to run a high-intensity research program at UWM
Severe Lack of Support Infrastructure to perform extramurally funded research at UWM Lack of incentives to run a high-intensity research program at UWM Developing research at UWM
Developing research at UWM Developing International Research Stature is critical to successful funding.
Developing research at UWM Important to grow high-quality research in all areas: • Languages • Humanities • Social Sciences • Professions • Fine Arts • Sciences • Engineering • …..
Developing research at UWM Identifying Markers of High-Quality Research • e.g., Humanities, Social Sciences : markers of international recognition- – Elected fellowships in Academies; – Markers of recognition (e.g, Guggenheim, ACLS fellowships) ; – Grants (Fulbright, Rockefeller, Ford, American Philosophical Society, NEH, Humboldt, Freeman fellowships); – National and international awards; – Publications of books published by major peer-reviewed international publishers (Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford...); – Book prizes, or books translated into other languages.
Developing research at UWM Identifying Markers of High-Quality Research • e.g., Sciences & Engineering: markers of success and international recognition – – High Impact international publications; – Competitive extramural Grant funding at national level; – Patents and other licensable products; – National/international awards & recognitions – Invited Talks; – Elected fellowships in Academies; – Other markers of recognition (e.g., national and international awards, certain international fellowships).
Developing research at UWM Infrastructure for extramurally funded research . • Infrastructure for extramurally funded research is inadequate. We need to simplify & streamline following so they work for researchers: – Travel rules; – Purchasing processes; – Accounts; – Budgeting; – International scholars processing; – Human Resources; – Safety and Risk management; – Payroll; – Electronic library resources; – Student and postdoc hiring; – Student “hourly” help (undergraduate research).
Developing Research at UWM: Incentives coupled to Research Productivity Natural Sciences, Health Humanities, Professions, Sciences & Engineering Arts, Social Sciences • Administrative • Time release; infrastructure support; • Travel support; • Summer salaries & base • Summer salaries & base salaries; salaries; • Time release; • Computers; • Graduate Student salary • Student support; match; • Support to network at an • Travel funds (when funds international level. are low).
Developing research at UWM Levels of Research: A Sports Metaphor R MAJOR LEAGUES I e n c c o MINOR LEAGUES e g n n i t t LITTLE LEAGUE / COACH i i v o e n HOBBY s s
Developing research at UWM Levels of Research Productivity (example: Sciences & Engineering) – Major Leagues: • Training and financially supporting a large group of graduate students and postdoctoral scientists; working on multiple projects, and • 10 + invited talks per year, and • 10 + publications per year, mostly in high impact journals, and • More than $250K per PI per year successful extramural funding, and • Submission of 5+ grant proposals per year. – Minor Leagues: • Training and financially supporting graduate students and postdoctoral scientists, and • 3-5 invited talks per year, and • 3-5 publications per year, some in high impact journals, and • $100-200K per PI per year successful extramural funding, and • Submission of 2-5 grant proposals per year. – Little Leagues/Coach: • Mostly training graduate students (limited MS/PhD dissertation readership). • $1-50K per PI per year in successful funding. • 1-3 invited talks per year • 1-3 publications per year. • Submission of 0-2 grant proposal submissions per year. – Hobby
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