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Academic Task Force - College Design: Science/Engineering

Mission

Advances in the biological sciences will transform the physical sciences, engineering, biomedical research, agriculture, and the environmental sciences. Critical to this transformation are strong connections between biology and the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The University of Minnesota seeks to be a leader in promoting these new connections among the sciences, engineering, and related disciplines.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding the optimal design, structure, and organization of the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, biology and such related disciplines as biomedical research, agriculture, and the environmental sciences.
• Recommendations regarding how to identify and take maximum academic advantage of important future directions at the interface of the core disciplines.
• Recommendations regarding how to configure the sciences and engineering to best integrate and promote academic synergies, teaching, and research between academic units and across the Academic Health Center.
• Recommendations for a plan to optimally position the University of Minnesota
  to achieve prominence in the sciences, engineering, and health-related disciplines, consistent with the University’s goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world.
• Recommendations regarding how to promote strengths in the core disciplines of the Biological Sciences (CBS) and the Institute of Technology (IT) and basic science within the Medical School (MS).
• Recommendations regarding how science and engineering on campus also can be a model for the promotion of public engagement.

Report due: May 1, 2006

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Frank Bates, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head, ChemE/Mat Sci, IT Claudia Neuhauser, Professor and Head, EEB, CBS David Bernlohr, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head, BioChem/Mol Biol/Biophysics, CBS, Med Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Doug Cameron Director, Biotechnology Development Center, Cargill Katie Fleming Graduate student, Mechanical Eng, IT Cathy French Professor, Civil Engineering, IT Wayne Gladfelter Professor and Head, Chemistry, IT Harry Orr Professor, Lab Medicine/Pathology, Medical Mike Sadowsky Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate, COAFES Marc von Keitz Director, Biotechnology Institute, CBS/IT

[return to Task Forces] Footnote Administrative Structure and College Design task forces to coordinate with one another.