NC State’s Strategic Vision states that our core value is to transform lives and improve the human condition through strategic research and scholarship. We’ll take a look at what NC State is contributing to society as a result of the research that’s carried out here. Then we’ll talk about how we’re benchmarking our progress and the research strategies we’re implementing to increase our impact. One of the ways we can measure our impact to date is by taking a look at third-party rankings. We’ll look at overall University rankings by US News and World Report and specific research rankings by The Center for Measuring University Performance. This gives us a snapshot of “Where We Are Today.” And then we’ll talk about where we want to go and how we're going to get there.
1. A Strategy for Research at NC State Terri L. Lomax Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies 15 April 2010
2. Why We’re All Here NC State’s strategic vision pledges that our university will boldly pursue strategic research and scholarship to: “transform lives and improve the human condition.” PURPOSE.
3. Research – Transforming and Improving >110 products from lab to market 54 patents issued in FY09 (>675 total) 91 new commercialization agreements in FY09 3rd Nationally in Industry Licensing Partnerships (per $100M in research expenditures - AUTM 2008) 72 startup companies >$750M in venture capital attracted to the region Centennial Campus nominated for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2010
6. Top 50 Research Universities by Institutional Characteristics 26 U of Texas MD-Anderson NC State ranks 47th in research expenditures (NSF) among all universities 31 GA Tech Vet School 32 UT-Austin 38 Scripps RI 1 Johns Hopkins 9 U Penn 4 U of Mich 6 U WA 8 Stanford 2 UWisc-M 10 Duke 22 Texas A&M 11 Ohio State 23 U of Ill-UC 17 Wash U-StL 20 Pitt 13 U Minn 21 Columbia 36 Purdue 14 UCD 24 Baylor 47 NCSU Med School 16 UF 25 Yale 50 VA Tech 29 Cornell 27 Harvard 40 Mich State 12 MIT 28 USC 3 UCLA 49 UGA 30 UNC-CH 15 Penn State 5 UCSF 33 Northwestern 34 UMD-B 18 UCB 7 UCSD 35 Vanderbilt 19 U AZ 41 U of MD-CP 37 Case Western 45 U of Ill-C 39 U Rochester 48 U KY 42 U of Iowa Land Grant Legend 43 Emory 44 UT MC-Dallas Private Public 46 UA-Birm
7. The Center for Measuring University Performance Top American Research Universities Total Research Federal Research Endowment Assets Annual Giving National Academy Members Faculty Awards Doctorates Granted Postdoctoral Appointees SAT/ACT range The 9 Measures: Source: Top American Research Universities 2008 Annual Report (The Center for Measuring University Performance).
8. Research Rankings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Source: Top American Research Universities 2008 Annual Report (The Center for Measuring University Performance).
9. Peer Institutional Data a a3 a a a1 b b4 a2 Parenthetical reference indicates: 1) Percentage of faculty that are National Academy Members; 2) Doctorates granted to number of students enrolled ratio; 3) Postdoc to faculty ratio; 4) Student to faculty ratio Sources: a) The Center andb) IPEDS Data Center, US Dept. of Education http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/Default.aspx, accessed 4/06/10
10. Peer Comparison of Research Expenditures (2001-2006) http://www.screencast.com/users/lianafryer/folders/Jing/media/fa9adc17-cb58-442b-8ba7-a85beccdb6e6 TRENDS.
11. Peer Comparison of Research Expenditures (2001-2006) http://www.screencast.com/users/lianafryer/folders/Jing/media/78556632-cdac-4214-adf7-9e4e262764ae TRENDS.
12. Peer Comparison of Research Expenditures (2001-2006) http://www.screencast.com/users/lianafryer/folders/Jing/media/d2d033ec-053b-4dc7-bbcd-64028e845d2f TODAY.
13. 5 Year Research Trends +%81 Proposed funding increase over past five years +%44 Awarded funding increase over past five years This data compiled on 4.06.2010 comparing the past five years by “fiscal year to date.” TRENDS.
16. The Role of Stimulus Funding +%43.57 Awarded funding increase over past five years This data compiled on 4.06.2010 comparing the past five years by “fiscal year to date.” TRENDS.
17. The Path Forward Increase Research Awards by 50% by 2015 +%50 $102,349,492 increase over next five years GOALS.
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19. Improve infrastructure & equipmentGOAL 2: Create and sustain a collaborative, innovative, multidisciplinary research culture at NC State to complement our traditional areas of research excellence. GOAL 3: Increase research funding and partnerships to optimize the research environment. GOAL 4: Increase awareness of NC State’s research enterprise on a state, national and global level. STRATEGY.
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21. Strategic Research Areas – Why? Today’s complex issues call for multidisciplinary approaches and team science. Building teams of scientists & scholars around critical issues = Strategic Research Areas STRATEGY.
22. Strategic Research Areas at NC State Strategic Focus Areas Health & Well-Being Energy & Environment Educational Innovation Safety & Security Economic & Societal Benefit Cross-Cutting Initiatives STRATEGY.
26. RESOURCES: MAPPING Electronic Medical Records Laurie Williams MladenVouk
27. RESOURCES: MAPPING Electronic Medical Records Laurie Williams And MladenVouk Serious Games Michael Young and Tim Buie
28. RESOURCES: MAPPING Electronic Medical Records Laurie Williams And MladenVouk Serious Games Michael Young and Tim Buie Cost Saving Medical Technologies Troy Nagle
29. SRAs for Greater Impact: A Case Study On March 22 USDA announced ~$260M for the following funding priorities: Childhood Obesity Prevention Climate Change Food Safety Global Food Security Sustainable Bioenergy NC State responded immediately with our team science approach: 25 March – Collaboration website launched to facilitate response to opportunity (50+ forum comments within 8 hours of launch) 30 March – Informational, teaming meeting held drawing 100+ attendees 14 April – First Letters of Intent Due STRATEGY.
One of our overarching initiatives is our recently launched Research Gateway. We’ve built out an online gateway to serve our internal research community, our external partners, and a “Visitors” section with feature stories, statistics, and impressive facts to begin building our reputation and increasing the profile of our Research and Graduate Studies enterprise at NC State.
And we’re providing tools and resources to support these Strategic Research Areas. We’ve built out areas of the Research Gateway to include portals for each of our Strategic Research Areas. We’ve developed these pages toprovide Links, Features, Networking Opportunities and Resources for team science. These portals also promote NC State as “real-world team scientists” externally. This is an example of our Health and Well-being portal.
So if we drill down into the Medical Treatments and Tools area, you’ll see that you can take an even closer look at NC State’s expertise. Growing out of each first-level cluster, we’ve identified even more specific research strengths. For example, the layer under “Devices & Materials” includes Robotics, Nano, Tissue Engineering, etc. This mapping system organizes NC State’s areas of expertise in Health and Well-Being into something quite manageable.
And for even more detail, let’s drill down further into the clusters and look at “who’s doing what” in each of these areas. So if we looked into this “e-Records” area, we can see that Laurie Williams and Mladen Vouk are currently working on Electronic Medical Records.
The “Health Games” area includes researchers Michael Young and Time Buie working on Serious Games.
And the FDA Categories area shows that Troy Nagle is focusing on “Cost Saving Medical Technologies.” So as you can see, we’re quite busy identifying and organizing our best research into multidisciplinary structures so that we can work together to solve real-world problems.