Working Group on Research and Scholarship

Charge:

With regard to the V2C goal of “visibly and substantially” increasing commitment to Rice’s research mission and raising our research and scholarship profile, the working group will consult broadly with the Rice academic community and will coordinate its activities with Graduate Council, the University Committee on Research, and the Research Administration Advisory Group to:

• Assess current processes and structures designed to support and improve research and scholarship efforts

• Identify best practices here and at peer institutions

• Translate the V2C general goals to more concrete, measurable ones, identifying obstacles and risks to achieving these goal and suggestions for overcoming them

Membership: Moshe Vardi, Chair

Engineering: Pullickel Ajayan, Keith Cooper, Michael Deem
Humanities: Beatriz Gonzalez, Richard Grandy
Natural Sciences: Janet Braam, Randy Hulet, Seiichi Matsuda
Social Sciences: Mahmoud El-Gamal, Michael Emerson, Fred Oswald
Architecture: Albert Pope
Jones School: Gustavo Grullon, Vikas Mittal
Baker Institute: Steve Lewis
Ex-officio: Vicki Colvin, Cindy Farach-Carson, Caroline Levander, Susan McIntosh,
Don Morrison, Doug Natelson, Paula Sanders

View the public lecture held April 11, 2013.

To view the draft report, dated April 12, 2013, please see the Senate wiki space: RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP.
To view the presentation made in the Dec 2013 Senate meeting.