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 Meeting Minutes
Associate Deans for Research
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Friday, March 20, 2015, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
SEB 2251
In Attendance: Jillian Inouye, Jay Shen, Connie Mobley, Shannon Smith, Kendall Hartley,
Andrew Hanson, Jennifer Keene, Annette Day, Tara Emmers-Sommer, Mickey Tylo, Kimberly
Kendricks, Stan Smith, Sue DiBella, David Paul, Lori Olafson, Brian Hedlund, Zach Miles,
Caleen Johnson, and Jill Zimbelman.
1. General Announcements/Updates – Stan Smith
a. CoRE Update – Jennifer Keene
i. CoRE Open Forum, Featuring Dr. Ross Hammond, March 27, 2015, 9:3011:30 a.m., in the Student Union, Room 218. To attend, please RSVP for
this event by following this link:
https://unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_enetkIg8kuMSgv3
2. Optimizing UNLV’s Success in Securing Private Foundation Funding – Caleen Johnson
a. Caleen will be sending the ADR group an e-mail this week that can be sent
directly out to your respective faculty to ask everyone to share with her any
connections they may have with board members or staff affiliated with private
foundations.
b. A personal relationship or acquaintanceship that a UNLV faculty member has
with someone at a foundation goes a very long way towards making it possible for
UNLV to be successful in its foundation fundraising.
c. This does not mean that if a faculty member knows someone at a foundation
they’ll have to ask a friend for money – we’re just requesting that the faculty
consider making an introduction to the foundation person.
d. This pathway is crucial to “getting in” with foundations that don’t accept
unsolicited proposals, of which there are many – in fact it’s practically the only
way to do it.
e. As we work towards Tier 1, we need to establish these connections. Most
universities have a jump on us in this area, and we need to try to catch up.
3. Faculty Opportunity Awards Update – Brian Hedlund (handouts)
a. 2015 breakdown by college spreadsheet
b. Impact slide showing the rate of return
c. 2012 and 2013 proposal submission and funding summaries
4. Core Facilities Update – Stan Smith
a. Defined as a lab with high impact equipment.
b. Policies will be drafted to incorporate business plans (fee for service) to better
utilize and manage these labs.
5. UNLV Research Innovators Videos – Sue DiBella
a. Link to the Research and Economic Development YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJsOog81VU3lA_iwoPYR9A
6. Spotlight on Research – Jillian Inouye (presentation)
a. School of Nursing
b. School of Allied Health Sciences
7. Volunteer for Spotlight on Research
a. April 17 – Annette Day (UNLV Libraries)
b. May 15 – Tentatively Tara Emmers-Sommer/Ramona Denby-Brinson (2014
Harry Reid Silver State Research Award Winner)
c. June 19 –
Next Meeting:
Friday, April 17, 2015, 9:00-10:30 a.m. in SEB 2251
2
2015 Faculty Opportunity Award
Proposals Received
Collaborative: Center of Excellence
Collaborative: Emerging Areas
Individual Investigator
Innovation/Technology Development
College Breakdown
Engineering (1)
Allied Health Sciences (3)
Education (5)
Engineering (3)
Liberal Arts (3)
Sciences (2)
Allied Health Sciences (3)
Community Health Sciences (2)
Education (4)
Engineering (2)
Fine Arts (1)
Liberal Arts (6)
Sciences (7)
Sciences (2)
Total Number = 44
Total Amount requested = $1,080,483
1
$100,000
16
$452,526
25
2
$487,958
$40,000
Faculty Opportunity Awards Impact
70
$4,500,000
$4,000,000
60
$3,500,000
50
$3,000,000
$2,500,000
40
$2,000,000
30
$1,500,000
20
$1,000,000
10
$500,000
$0
0
FOA Amount
Awarded
External Funding Received
Investment Payout
$1 : $5.70
# of Proposals
Submitted
# of Proposals
Funded
Proposal Success
~31%
9 Research Disclosures Submitted & 7 Patent Applications Filed
2012 FOA RECIPIENTS' PROPOSA L SUBMISSION A ND FUNDING SUMMA RY
32
Development of Perceptual Skills Across Domains
1
1
$0
1
$0
HANNON
Jennifer
Rennels
Co-PI
1
HATCHETT
Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Recovery of Rare
Earth Metals from Ionic Liquid
6
ELISABETH
BRIAN
HAUSRATH
HEDLUND
STAN
HILLYARD
Frank
van Breukelen
Co-PI
$25,000
$0
0
ERIN
Czerwinski
1
Co-PI
Andres
$25,000
$1,688,336
1
Andrew
$28,770
13
An investigation into transitions in layer silicate chemistry
on Mars
8
$0
3
5
3
$30,000
Informatics and functional metagenomics focusing on viral
polymerases in Nevada hot springs
$25,000
Paradoxical anaerobism:using anaerobic metabolism
when oxygen is available
2
1
Co-PI
6
3
6
2
2
Global Medical Isotope Systems
Co-PI
*$140,000
Global Medical Isotope Systems
PI
$102,000
PI
$29,961
6
Reactive Innovations, LLC
Global Medical Isotope Systems
PI
$140,000
Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
PI
$190,450
U.S. Civilian Resrch and Development Fdn.
PI
$6,052
National Security Technologies
PI
$64,000
Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
PI
$40,002
NASA
PI
$64,351
NSHE /NASA
Co-PI
$19,995
NSTec
Co-PI
$95,190
EPSCoR / NASA
PI
$8,640
EPSCoR / NASA
PI
$5,216
Co-PI
*$46,800
4
4
NV Dept of Wildlife
1
NV Deptartment of Wildlife
PI
$46,800
Co-PI
$28,000
US Fish and Wildlife
PI
$12,000
Univ of California, San Diego
PI
$44,594
NV State Division of Health
PI
$44,020
US Bureau of Land Management
MONICA
LOUNSBERY
Shannon
Monnat
$25,000
$ Funded
Proposals
28
A Model Systems Approach to Identifying Obesity-Related
Genes
GIBBS
Kenneth
$25,000
70
Source of Funded Proposals
Children's Activity and Policies at Schools
7
Co-PI
0
1
2
5
COLLABORATIVE
$283,770
ALLEN
DAVE
COLLABORATIVE
Title
# Pending
COLLABORATIVE AWARDS
Award
Amount
# Funded
Last Name
# Proposals
submitted
First Name
(data to 3/6/14)
Role
External Proposal Submissions
2012 FACULTY OPPORTUNITY AWARDS
$0
* Counted in PI' s A wards
2012 FOA RECIPIENTS' PROPOSA L SUBMISSION A ND FUNDING SUMMA RY
Exploring the near space environment with high altitude
balloon sensors (HABS)
8
5
1
National Security Technologies
National SecurityTechnologies
PI
$3,839
$79,598
National Security Technologies
PI
$23,937
National Security Technologies
PI
COLLABORATIVE
SINGLE
Co-PI
4
4
$76,746
National Security Technologies
Co-PI
$48,001
National Security Technologies
PI
$40,000
National Security Technologies
PI
$169,382
National Security Technologies
PI
$50,000
JOEL
SNYDER
$25,000
The role of sleep in generalization of auditory learning
1
YING
TIAN
$25,000
Structural performance of flat-plate buildings under fire
4
2
1
NV Department of Transportation
Co-PI
*$27,684
NV Department of Transportation
Co-PI
*$57,174
Aly
Said
Co-PI
6
5
1
NV Department of Transportation
PI
$27,684
NV Department of Transportation
PI
$57,174
Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology
PI
$32,238
Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology
PI
$37,148
U.S. Department of Transportation
PI
$31,318
MEI
TOTAL
O'Brien
$70,000
Co-PI
Blast Containment Inc
Robert
PI
YANG
$25,000
SINGLE INVESTIGATORS
$116,846
JANET
DUFEK
$20,000
RON
GARY
REBECCA
High-Performance and Scalable 3-D Photonic-Electronic
Network-on-Chips
1
4
$0
4
$0
$470,724
19
5
14
Pediatric Patient Falls: Biomechanical and Ergonomic
Contributors to Occurrence and Injury Severity
9
1
8
$19,000
Novel Regulation of an Alzheimer's Disease-Associated
Protein
1
1
INBRE: Genomics Core
$180,843
GILL
$19,486
Assessing Judicial Performance Evaluations for Race and
Gender Bias
1
1
National Science Foundation
$85,206
JEFF
KINNEY
$18,800
Examination of alterations in kalirin in developmental
models of schizophrenia
4
GARY
KLEIGER
$20,000
Determining the Molecular Mechanism of Action...
3
1
2
University of Nevada, Reno/INBRE
DAVID
LEE
$19,560
Biomechanical progression of spontaneous knee arthritis
in an animal model
2
1
1
UNLV / IDeA
89
33
46
TOTAL FUNDED PROPOSALS
TOTAL AWARDED
Collaborative & Single
$400,616
Submission Totals
2
Nationwide Children's Hosp
COLLABORATIVE
$25,000
$5,850
4
SINGLE
O'TOOLE
$143,825
$55,000
$2,159,060
TOTAL
BRENDAN
Source of Funded Proposals
$ Funded
Proposals
Title
# Pending
Award
Amount
# Funded
Last Name
# Proposals
submitted
First Name
(data to 3/6/14)
Role
External Proposal Submissions
2012 FACULTY OPPORTUNITY AWARDS
* Counted in PI' s A wards
2014 FO A RECIPIEN TS' PRO PO SA L SUBMISSIO N A N D FUN DIN G SUMMA RY
15
1
11
3
1
2
AMEI
$14,000
DANIEL
GERRITY
$25,000
Occurrence, Proliferation, and Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance during
Wastewater Treatment
SZU-PING
LEE
$24,268
Influence of Foot Strike Pattern on Lower Back Muscle Activation during
Running: Clinical Implications for Preventing Lower Back Pain in Runners
GUOGEN
SHAN
$20,000
Efficient one-stage and two-stage phase II clinical trial designs based on
exact unconditional tests
PENGTAO
SUN
$24,460
Modeling and Numerical Studies for a Two-phase Transport Model of
Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs)
AI-SUN
TSENG
$25,000
Using Antibiotics to Modulate Vertebrate Organ Regeneration
4
4
HUI
ZHAO
$25,000
Super-hydrophobic Surface Enabled Microfluidic Energy Conversion
8
5
$57,192
Couer Alaska
Co-PI
$57,192
INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATOR
AMEI
Time-Dependent Random Effects Poisson Random Field Model for Cancer
Gene Detection
$ Funded
Proposals
# Pending
$157,728
Source of Funded Proposals
INNOVATION / TECH
$124,333
YINGTAO
JIANG
$25,000
A New Multiple Access Scheme based on the Signal Amplitudes
3
1
JUYEON
JO
$24,480
Revolutionizing the Authentication Paradigm with an Indirect User ID
Mechanism
1
1
Yoohwan
Kim
Co-PI
1
1
National Security Technologies
PI
$52,493
MARTIN
SCHILLER
System Minimotif Inhibitor Functional Screening Technology
11
7
National Institutes of Health
PI
$122,157
National Institutes of Health
PI
$148,114
National Institutes of Health
PI
$172,396
Univer of Nevada, Las Vegas
PI
$54,912
EPSCoR / NASA
PI
$8,640
EPSCoR / NASA
PI
$5,216
Sandia National Laboratories
PI
$20,022
WOOSOON
YIM
$25,000
$24,853
37
9
Technology Development of a Robotic Catheter System
11
4
5
19
2
$1,408,809
Sandia National Laboratories
*EPSCoR / NASA
1
PI
$60,000
Co-PI
*$446,494
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY
INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATOR
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Award Amount Title
# Funded
Last Name
# Proposals
submitted
First Name
(data to 5/23/14)
Role
External Proposal Submissions
2013 FACULTY OPPORTUNITY AWARDS
* Counted in PI' s A wards
2014 FO A RECIPIEN TS' PRO PO SA L SUBMISSIO N A N D FUN DIN G SUMMA RY
Pradip
Bowmik
TOTAL AWARDED
Individual & Tech
$25,000
$282,061
5
7
Development of Novel Chemical Inhibitors Targeting Epigenetic Regulation
of Cancer/Cancer Stem Cells
2
2
Co-PI
1
1
Submission Totals
2
52
12
30
EPSCoR / NASA
PI
$446,494
U.S. Army Research Office
PI
$248,495
University of Nevada, Reno
PI
$69,870
*EPSCoR / NASA
Co-PI
*$8,640
*EPSCoR / NASA
Co-PI
*$5,216
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY
ZHANG
15
$1,466,001
TOTAL
HUI
Co-PI
$ Funded
Proposals
Kim
# Pending
Kwang
Award Amount Title
# Funded
Last Name
# Proposals
submitted
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY
TOTAL
First Name
(data to 5/23/14)
Role
External Proposal Submissions
2013 FACULTY OPPORTUNITY AWARDS
Source of Funded Proposals
TOTAL FUNDED PROPOSALS
* Counted in PI' s A wards
Spotlight on Research
School of Allied Health Sciences
School of Nursing
Jillian Inouye, PhD, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research and Professor
The Tony & Renee Marlon Angel Professorship
Schools of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
School of Allied Health Sciences
Dr. Janet Dufek
Dr. Ralf Sudowe
Dr. Frank Cucinotta
Dr. Merrill Landers
Dr. Yu Kuang
Dr. Brach Poston
School of Allied Health Sciences
Dr. Bing Ma
Dr. Kai-Yu Ho
Dr. Steen Madsen
School of Nursing
Dr. Barbara St. Pierre Schneider
Dr. Susan VanBeuge
Dr. Du Feng
School of Nursing
Dr. Jennifer Kawi
Dr. Dianne Thomason
Dr. Tricia Gatlin
Dr. Alona Angosta
Dr. Nada Lukkahatai
Dr. Rei Serafica
Ms. Marianne Tejada
Clinical Translational Research –
Infrastructure Network (CTR-IN)
Dr. Robert Langer
Dr. Jillian Inouye
Submitted Grants
January 1, 2014 – March 1, 2015
35
$12,000,000
30
$10,000,000
25
$8,000,000
20
$6,000,000
15
$4,000,000
10
$2,000,000
5
$0
0
Submitted
Awarded
Internal
External
UNR, OSN and UNLV, SON Faculty Accomplishments
Summary of UNLV, SON Faculty Achievements 2012‐2014
Number of scholarly publications in refereed journals and textbooks
UNLV, SON 2012, 28
2013, 30
2014, 54
112
Number of publications in non‐refereed journals
2012, 7
2013, 6
2014, 13
26
Panel/Paper/Poster presentations
2012, 84
2013, 62
2014, 80
226
Grant funding sources (i.e., research, program development)
Total funding
Internal awards (SON & UNLV Faculty Opportunity Awards); Education; Research
With Internal Funds:
2012, $209,955
2013, $160,776
2014, $833,197
$1,203,928
Without Internal Funds:
2012, $199,955
2013, $140,776
2014, $823,197
$1,163,928
GOALS
• Goals for 2015
– A 20% increase in funded grants
– A 10% increase in the number of faculty
conducting research
– Continued commitment of leadership (e.g., Dean ) and consistent focus on research incentives such as P&T criteria / release time / and conference travel