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Research Task Force - Collaborative Research

Mission

To create a plan to identify and promote interdisciplinary, inter-professional, interscholastic, and inter-institutional partnerships/programs/activities, consistent with the University’s goal to become of the top three public research universities in the world.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding the role of interdisciplinary, inter-professional, interscholastic, and inter-institutional partnerships/programs/activities in achieving the University’s goal of becoming one of the to three public research universities in the world.
• Identification of the research areas (current and emerging) that will require or benefit most from interdisciplinary, large-scale, or team-oriented approaches, including the following:
• How should future opportunities be identified, evaluated, and prioritized?
• For which of the anticipated opportunities does the University currently enjoy a comparative advantage?
• Which areas should be considered a priority for development?
• Recommendations regarding how the University can optimally encourage increased interactions and collaborations among researchers across departmental, disciplinary, and collegiate boundaries, including identification of current impediments (cultural, administrative, structural, infrastructure) to such collaborations and recommendations for overcoming these impediments.
• Recommendations regarding the financial resources that will be necessary to support interdisciplinary or collaborative research, and how such resources should be identified and allocated.
• Recommendations regarding “best practices” from other institutions that should be considered for implementation at the University of Minnesota, including a comparison of the University’s current practices with the recommendations of the National Academies with respect to facilitating interdisciplinary research.

Report due: May 1, 2006

Task force charge letter from R. Timothy Mulcahy, Vice President for Research

Task Force Cochairs Frances Lawrenz, Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Educational Psychology, CEHD Mark Paller, Assistant Vice President for Research and Professor, Medicine, AHC Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Steve Ruggles Professor, History, CLA Ashley Haase Professor, Microbiology Medical School Shaun Kennedy Associate Program Director, COAFES/Vet Med John Connett Professor, Biostatistics, Public Health Dorothy Hatsukami Professor, Psychiatry, Medical School Joachim Heberlein Professor, Mechanical Eng, IT Claudia Schmidt-Dannert Assoc Professor, BioChem/Mol, Biol/Biophysics, CBS Kristopher McNeill Assistant Professor, Chemistry Donna Gabaccia Professor, History, CLA and Director, IHRC

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