Research

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Research Graduate Education

• Michael J. Pazzani,
• Vice President for Research and
• Graduate and Professional Education
• Pazzani_at_rutgers.edu
• http//vpr.rutgers.edu

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Overview

• Making an impact
• Do great research
• Let others know about it
• Collaboration is important and valued
• Involve Undergraduates in Research
• Obtaining Resources for Research
• Office of Research and Sponsored Projects
• Compliance (IRB and IACUC)
• Internal Support
• Proposal Development
• Tech Transfer
• Graduate Education

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Research and Education

• Publicize your publications
• Publications online are cited twice as often
• (e)mail papers to people who you want to be read
  them.
• Collaborate with others Ignore advice to focus
  solely on single authored papers.
• Combine Research Education
• Survey in my first year seminar
• How many hours a week does a Rutgers Professor
  teach?
• What do Rutgers Professors do when they arent
  teaching?
• How much does a Ph.D. student in computer science
  pay Rutgers a year?
• Moral Tell freshman about research and the
  value of education where new knowledge created.
  Explain about prerequisites for graduate school
  and paying for grad school.

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Becoming part of Rutgers Research community

• Distinguished faculty series (First Monday
  starting in Nov 330pm in Fiber Optics Auditorium
  Busch Campus)
• Immediately preceded by brief, 10 minute talks by
  new faculty i.e., YOU from 130-330.
• New faculty series send your name, department
  and talk title to vpr-admin_at_orsp.rutgers.edu

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Obtaining Resources

• Internal
• Research Council Awards Deadline early March
  (5,000 max, 1200 average)
• Busch Biomedical Awards Deadline early April
  (50,000 or 25,000)
• External Office of Research and Sponsored
  Projects
• Identifying grants.gov, Rutgers GrantNet
  mailing list (micmuell_at_vpr.rutgers.edu), SPIN
  (see http//orsp.rutgers.edu/SPIN.php)
• Submitting
• Departmental/Center Support
• ORSP Grant Specialist (see http//orsp.rutgers.edu
  /alphabetical.php)
• Notify when intending to submit
• Send proposal 3 days before deadline

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Structure of ORSPhttp//orsp.rutgers.edu

• Director (Sheryl Goldberg)
• IRB
• Chair Beverly Tepper
• Vice Chair Marsha Bates
• IRB advisor Kathryn Greene
• Animal Care Faculty Committee (ACFC, IACUC)
• Chair Patrick McIlroy
• Vice Chair Tamara Minko
• Vet Bob Harris
• Proposal Development (Mike Mueller)
• Centers, Multidisciplinary, Training, New
  Investigator
• Grant facilitators working group

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Increase acceptance rate by visiting funding
agency before submitting proposal

• Learn more about what types of projects agency is
  looking for (e.g., balance between theory and
  observation)
• Explain to agency your ideas and accomplishments
• Find additional solicitations or agencies for
  support

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Make Your Ideas Stand Out

• Proposal Summary is extremely important
• Reviewer forms an initial impression that is
  seldom changed
• Submit in at least one day early? First in order.
• Address all issues in solicitation, research,
  evaluation, education, assessment, outreach
• Get copies of recently funded proposals

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Integrity and Research

• A North Carolina faculty member's CAREER proposal
  contained extensive plagiarism from numerous
  uncited sources, including CAREER proposals
  previously submitted to NSF by other researchers.
  We determined that the faculty member requested
  and received copies of multiple funded proposals
  from NSF via the Freedom of Information Act. He
  then copied extensively from several of the
  proposals he received into his own proposal.
  During the university investigation, the faculty
  member claimed that he was unaware of the need to
  cite the sources for the copied text, an
  explanation that the investigation committee
  found unconvincing. The university determined he
  committed research misconduct and terminated him.
  

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Tech Transfer Structurehttp//otc.rutgers.edu

• Executive Director (Vacant)
• Corporate Contracts (Chuck Wyckoff)
• Sponsored Research Agreements
• Material Transfer Agreement
• DO NOT SIGN AGREEMENTS YOURSELF
• Invention Disclosure Patenting (Chris Izzo)
• Marketing Licensing
• Bob Gruetzmacker (Eng Physical Sciences)
• Tom Richardson (Life Sciences)
• Leon Segal Food and Agricultural Products

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Graduate School New Brunswick

• Provides training for TAs (and new faculty)
• Offers Introduction to College Teaching course
• Coordinates Master Faculty Observation Program
• Barbara Bender bbender_at_rutgers.edu
• Chaser the Resource Center for Graduate Student
  External Support Teresa Delcorso
  delcorso_at_rutgers.edu
• Conducts RISE at Rutgers/UMDNJ summer research
  program for under-represented undergraduates
  Evelyn S. Erenrich. Assistant Dean for
  Recruitment