Large-Scale Research and Infrastructure

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Large-Scale Researchand Infrastructure
Mark Lundstrom, Marietta Harrison Eli Asem, Jeff
Gunsher, Christian Hans, Monika
Ivantysynova, Phil Low, and Alan Rebar March
3, 2008
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What are we after?
Large Scale Research
Why? Grand challenges such as human health,
energy, environment and climate require large
scale interdisciplinary research
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strategies

• Invest in people
• Invest in infrastructure
• Define and support strategic initiatives
• Develop large-scale partnerships
• Lead with Discovery Park
• Be guided by rigorous, external reviews

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research infrastructure
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strategic initiatives
Couple engineering, physical sciences and the
life sciences

• Define a Purdue approach to grand challenges
  such as human health / energy / environment /
  climate
• Support high-profile faculty teams in important,
  emerging areas such as cyberinfrastructure,
  homeland security, space exploration, etc.
• Develop synergies with the liberal arts,
  business, education, and other units to add
  special capabilities to large-scale science and
  engineering initiatives

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large-scale partnerships
with industry and governments, domestic foreign
Examples
250M initiative of Swiss based pharma giant
Novartis for worldwide drug discovery center _at_
MIT
Clemson Universitys International Center for
Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) 250 acre techno
park financed by BMW, Michelin, Timken and South
Carolina
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Discovery Park - venue
for Large Scale Research (LSR) _at_ Purdue
to acquire operate large programs
Use Discovery Park - to re-engineer research
business operation _at_ Purdue
Make Discovery Park - an internationally
recognized research institute - a model
worldwide for a new paradigm in LSR
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resources

• Reallocation existing resourcesReturn university
  funds to support research infrastructure based on
  overhead generated
• Develop public/private partnerships to support
  research Identify opportunities for
  out-sourcing
• Development - emphasizing graduate student
  support, research infrastructure, and faculty
  chairs
• Large-scale partnerships with industry and
  governments

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assessment
Large-scale initiatives-new faculty-initiated,
center-scale projects-strategic partnerships
involving Purdue, industry, and
governments
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Comments or Questions?

• Promote excellence, leadership, and impact
• Field-defining research
• Develop large-scale partnerships
• Become a model for discovery-to-delivery