Executive Review and Recruitment
Vice President for Research at Indiana University:
Full Position Description
As one of the largest and most diverse public research institutions in the United States, Indiana University and its faculty excel in the life sciences, humanities, social sciences, and the arts, while IU's outstanding professional schools—from business and education to law, medicine and optometry—greatly expand the university's research accomplishments. IU has more than 100,000 students across its eight campuses, more than 20,000 of whom are graduate and professional students, and more than 18,000 faculty and staff. This year saw a record number of international students coming to IU from 144 countries. Over the years, Indiana University’s community of scholars has included or been associated with six Nobel Prize winners, seven Pulitzer Prize winners, five MacArthur Fellows, and currently includes over 30 active and emeritus members of the National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Indiana University is a leader in fostering multidisciplinary research and in forming the partnerships with business, industry, government, and other academic institutions that lead to important research and development and economic growth. Grants and awards to Indiana University for research and other sponsored programs increased 21 percent in the 2007-08 fiscal year to a record total of $525.3 million, more than the combined total of all other institutions of higher education in Indiana. IU research has surpassed any previous marks with a record 1,655 inventions and 36 new business spin-offs.
Indiana University and the State of Indiana are vigorously engaged in the development and expansion of the life sciences. With life science giants like Eli Lilly and Company and Cook Incorporated, Indiana is a national leader in the research and development of pharmaceuticals and in the design and manufacture of medical devices. A recent report from the Battelle Memorial Institute identified Indiana as one of the nation’s top four life sciences leaders based on the number and concentration of life sciences jobs. Combining Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Hospital, and Riley Hospital for Children, Clarian Health Partners is one of the largest health organizations in the Midwest. Indiana University is a major contributor to the continuing development of the life sciences in Indiana. Between 1998 and 2005, IU’s research funding from the two primary federal life sciences sources—the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation Biology Doctorate—increased by 68 percent. Indiana University is also partnering with Purdue University, the state’s other major research university, in the Indiana Innovation Alliance, a research and economic development initiative with a particular focus on the life and biosciences.
IU is a national leader in providing a full range of cyberinfrastructure to support research and creativity. This includes multiple supercomputing systems, extensive storage systems for data, high performance networks, and rich partnerships with libraries and 24x7 support. IU has grown in its share of federal grants to fund research technologies for a range of disciplines in the sciences, humanities, and arts. IU’s Global Research Network Operations Center (GRNOC) provides many services for the nation’s research networks, such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, which it manages, and international connections to other countries. The university has just completed a new IT Strategic Plan for enhancing broad IT support for research and education.
Position Overview
The Vice President for Research at the Indiana University has overall administrative responsibility for developing, coordinating, and stimulating research and creative activity at Indiana University; for enhancing external funding; and for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. He or she reports to the President and is a member of the President’s Cabinet. The primary units reporting to the Vice President for Research will be the Vice Provost for Research at IU Bloomington, the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI, and the Indiana University Office of Research Administration. The Vice Provost and Vice Chancellor will continue their shared reporting relationship with their respective provost and chancellor as well. The Vice President for Research will also oversee numerous university research centers, programs and institutes, including METACyt and the New Frontiers grant program for the humanities, described in detail below. The Vice President for Research position is currently filled on an interim basis by Dean Robert Schnabel of the IU School of Informatics and Computing.
The Vice President for Research will be expected to increase and diversify research and creative works, extramural funding, public-private partnerships, technology transfer, and graduate education opportunities. Particular emphasis will be given to expanding intercampus research. The Vice President for Research is responsible for oversight of administrative functions that include research compliance; research ethics, education and policy; research administration and decision support; grants administration and various compliance committees. Additional areas of importance will be internal research funding initiatives including faculty research development programs; management of research infrastructure such as facilitating development of research space, research staff, and faculty start-up packages; sponsor negotiations and program data; and intellectual property.
The Vice President for Research will represent and advocate for the IU research enterprise both nationally and internationally. He or she will work closely with the Vice President for Engagement and the Indiana University Research & Technology Corporation to advance research and development agreements, technology transfer opportunities, and patents. The Vice President is expected to develop strong working relationships within the IU community; with Purdue University in areas of research collaboration; with the University of Notre Dame in the research partnership in the School of Medicine; with Clarian Health; with local and national businesses and industries; and with state and federal granting agencies.
Competencies
Candidates must have an earned doctorate and be eligible for a tenured faculty appointment in an academic department of the university. He or she should have a documented record of funded research and significant personal research accomplishment. The Vice President for Research will be an experienced, forward thinking, and highly entrepreneurial leader who will provide vision, direction, and strategic planning for the 21st century research university. The Vice President for Research assumes a key role in setting, by personal example, the highest standards for integrity, fair mindedness, and respect for all persons. He or she should have a demonstrated commitment to diversifying the faculty, students and administrative faculty. In addition, the successful candidate will have:
•Demonstrated ability to provide strategic leadership in multi-disciplinary and campus-wide research and scholarship and strong skills in planning communication, and organization;
•A track record of leadership and innovation in the national and international research establishment and experience in linking research to graduate education;
•The ability to enhance the educational and research missions of the university by creating further opportunities for global collaboration among students and faculty;
•A record of team building between all university constituents and the larger community and a commitment to shared governance;
•A history of strong interactions with government agencies and the corporate sector and knowledge of national and international research agendas and enterprise;
•Knowledge of the role of philanthropic foundations in research and scholarship in liberal arts, science, technology and health care education;
•Familiarity with patenting and licensing;
•Rigorous knowledge of federal research policies and compliance regulations;
•Knowledge of intellectual property guidelines to develop a culture of academic research excellence while building on technology transfer and economic development activities;
•An understanding of federal and state appropriations processes, budgeting in a complex environment, grants and contracts administration, and strategic planning with accountability measures;
•An understanding of contemporary public higher education and the development of research infrastructure.
Major Academic Assets
The College of Arts & Sciences is the largest and oldest of Indiana University’s schools and is the institution’s intellectual core. The College offers 64 areas of study spanning the liberal arts and sciences in the areas of the arts and humanities; social and historical studies; natural and mathematical sciences; world languages and cultures; and the life sciences. At any one time, there are about 8,000 undergraduate majors and 2,800 graduate students pursuing degrees in the College.
As the only dental school in Indiana, with more than 650 students, the IU School of Dentistry conducts a broad range of research and hosts the Oral Health Research Institute, a leading center for preventive dentistry research.
The Indiana University School of Education prepares tomorrow's teachers, counselors, school psychologists, educational leaders, curriculum designers, and educational scholars. Its mission is to improve teaching, learning, and human development in a diverse, rapidly changing, and increasingly technological society. The School of Education includes numerous affiliated research centers and institutes such as the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) which promotes and supports rigorous program evaluation and education policy research.
School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER) researchers are working to improve the quality of life in Indiana. The Department of Applied Health Science fosters interdisciplinary research to prevent disease and promoting health. At HPER's Human Performance Laboratories, faculty and staff carry out an array of research ranging from examining the causes for airway inflammation in asthma patients to establishing the most effective prescriptions for hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences offers programs in health sciences, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
School of Informatics and Computing
The first such school in the nation, the IU School of Informatics and Computing offers degrees and research in bioinformatics, chemical informatics, and other fields of relevance to the life sciences. Informatics tools enable scientists and healthcare professionals to utilize the vast amounts of information produced by life science research.
The Jacobs School of Music is one of Indiana’s greatest cultural treasures. The school offers more than 1,100 public performances each year in Bloomington and across the state. It enrolls 1,600 students from every state in the union and approximately 55 other countries. These students study with the single greatest gathering of music faculty anywhere in the world.
With highly ranked undergraduate and graduate programs in Bloomington and Indianapolis, the Kelley School of Business is one of the country's premier business schools. The Kelley School is home to top-ranked academic departments and nationally recognized research centers and institutes such as the Entrepreneurial Management Academy, which helps students develop the skills and contacts they need in developing new businesses within large corporations, leading their own independent businesses, or starting or buying an existing business.
The School of Journalism at Indiana University is steeped in nearly 100 years of tradition, a heritage that ensures that graduates are well-armed with reporting, editing and writing skills to serve them well in their new careers. The school also strives to adapt to changes in the profession, to respond to new developments in the way news is delivered and to prepare students to work in different environments.
Maurer School of Law—Bloomington; School of Law—Indianapolis
Joint degree programs are offered in more than 10 areas of study. Programs in intellectual property are available both in Bloomington and Indianapolis. The School of Law—Indianapolis offers the Center for Law and Health.
The IU School of Liberal Arts is the home of the humanities and the social sciences at IUPUI. Many of the school's faculty have interests and expertise in issues central to the life sciences. A number of liberal arts faculty hold joint appointments with the schools of medicine, dentistry, and nursing.
School of Library and Information Science
The IU School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) brings new technology and new ideas to storing, managing, and retrieving information. SLIS graduates include librarians, library technology managers, media specialists, and numerous other occupations.
The Indiana University School of Medicine is the nation's second largest medical school with more than 1,300 medical and graduate degree students. The school holds more than $220 million in research grants and contracts. With 26 academic departments, the school hosts 22 research centers and institutes including federally designated centers of excellence in cancer, kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease, alcohol research, arthritis, sexually transmitted disease centers on both the pediatric and adult levels, and women's health. Nineteen research cores with expertise in such technologies as proteomics, genotyping, protein expression, high resolution microscopy and in-vivo imaging provide services to academic and private sector scientists. The school has education and research programs at eight regional campuses in addition to the Indianapolis campus. The Graduate Division offers a variety of Ph.D. and M.S. programs, including combined M.D./Ph.D., M.D./M.P.H., M.D./M.B.A. and M.D./M.A. programs. In addition, the school offers the Biotechnology Training Program, with a certificate and an M.S. degree program to enhance the research and laboratory skills of individuals interested in health sciences research. The Health Professions Programs at the IU School of Medicine Sciences trains a variety of allied health professionals, including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, laboratory scientists, cytotechnologists, histotechnologists, radiation therapists, and medical imaging technologists.
The Indiana University School of Nursing is the largest multi-purpose nursing school in the country, with programs in Indianapolis and seven additional campuses across Indiana. The school has a significant research enterprise. Centers include the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness and the Mary Margaret Walther Program for Cancer Care Research.
The Indiana University School of Optometry protects, advances, and promotes the vision, eye care, and health of people by preparing individuals for careers in optometry, the ophthalmic industry, and vision science and by advancing knowledge through teaching, research, and service.
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees with programs in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and six additional campuses across Indiana. Numerous research centers are affiliated with SPEA, including the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment.
The School of Science at IUPUI offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and advanced research in biology, chemistry, computer and information science, geology, mathematics, physics, and psychology. Multidisciplinary research centers at the school include regenerative biology and medicine, computational molecular science, earth and environmental science, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
The Indiana University School of Social Work offers a wide range of degree options, from associate to doctorate degrees. The school is dedicated to the enhancement of the quality of life for all people, particularly the citizens of Indiana, and to the advancement of just social, political, and economic conditions through excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
The University Graduate School is fully committed to enhancing graduate education on all of the campuses of Indiana University and beyond. There are 191 masters, doctoral and professional degree programs at IU ranging from finance to fine arts.
Indiana University Libraries comprise one of the leading academic research library systems in North America. It includes 19 libraries on the Bloomington campus, as well as libraries on the IUPUI campus and the six other IU campuses. As the largest library system in Indiana, it serves the faculty, students, and staff of Indiana University, all citizens of Indiana, and scholars from around the nation and the world.
Newly Established or Planned Major Research Facilities
Pervasive Technology Institute
Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) incorporates the Digital Science Center, the Data to Insight Center, and the Center for Advanced Cybersecurity Research. Each is led by a nationally prominent faculty director who oversees multiple labs and projects. PTI was recently funded by a $15M grant from the Lilly Endowment that follows a $29M grant that created the Pervasive Technology Labs – the forerunner to PTI.
Biotechnology Research and Training Center
The Biotechnology Research and Training Center (BRTC) in Indianapolis is home to more than 26,000-square feet of School of Medicine proteomic and genomic laboratories at IU, as well as the Biotechnology Training Program, which was developed to advance the technical skills of lab technicians for the state's life sciences industry.
Fairbanks Hall — The IU/Clarian Education and Resource Center
Newly opened Fairbanks Hall in Indianapolis is a 182,000-square-foot facility that is a joint project of IU School of Medicine, IU School of Nursing, and Clarian Health Partners. It provides state-of-the-art simulation and training facilities for students and health care professionals.
Health Information and Translational Sciences Building
The 167,000-square-foot Health Information and Translational Sciences building in Indianapolis, provides space for units of the Department of Pediatrics, the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Division of Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics, the Regenstrief Institute, and units of the School of Science's departments of mathematical sciences and computer and information science.
IU Bloomington's Simon Hall, a $55.7 million multidisciplinary science building which opened in 2007, brings together 750 top researchers and support staff from backgrounds including genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics in an 140,000-square foot space with modular walls that can be easily reconfigured. Simon Hall hosts facilities for the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, the proteomics research group headed by IU Department of Chemistry faculty member David Clemmer, the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science and the METACyt initiative.
Jacobs School of Music North Studio Building
There are also new facilities in the planning and construction stages that will benefit IU’s strong tradition in the arts and humanities. A $44 million gift from the Lilly Endowment will fund a practice facility for the Jacobs School of Music. The new North Studio Building will provide technologically and acoustically superior teaching and student performance facilities that will rival those of any music school or conservatory in the world.
Newly completed Walther Hall (formerly called Research III) at the IU School of Medicine creates a three-building, 500,000-square-foot research complex by connecting the neighboring Research II and Cancer Research Institute buildings. With 254,000 gross square feet, Walther Hall hosts scientists focusing on cancer research as well as neuroscience, immunobiology, and genetic blood-related disorders.
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
In November 2006, the IU Cancer Center received a $50 million gift from the Simon family to support cancer research and patient-care initiatives and give more patients access to the center's world-class specialists and innovative therapies. The 405,216-square-foot expansion of the cancer center opened in 2008.
Work is underway on a $15 million renovation of the University Theatre into a state of the art cinema facility and theater rehearsal space which will be equipped with the highest standards of 35mm, 16mm, and digital projection. The facility will provide a venue for the university’s substantial holdings in film, including those of the David S. Bradley Film Collection, the Black Film Center/Archive, the archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, the Lilly Library, and the Department of Communication and Culture. It will also screen rare prints from museums around the world and new films by national and international directors.
International Studies Building
Anew International Studies Building will be constructed at a site on Jordan Avenue directly south of the Wells Library. This 160,000 square-foot structure will house many of the international centers, institutes and culture and language study programs that are currently at a variety of scattered locations around the campus. The building will include offices, classrooms and support areas.
Business Development Assets
Indiana University Research & Technology Corp.
The Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC) is a not-for-profit agency that facilitates commercialization of the university's research discoveries and innovations for public benefit; protects both inventors' and the university's rights via patents, copyrights, and/or trademarks; assists entrepreneurs in creating start-up companies; and facilitates university collaborations with industry.
Indiana Emerging Technologies Center
The Indiana University Emerging Technologies Center (IUETC), located in Indianapolis, functions as a business incubator and accelerator for life sciences, biotechnology, and bioinformatics companies. The IUETC is dedicated to the mission of promoting partnerships between Indiana University and industry to foster economic growth. A comparable facility is currently near completion on the Bloomington campus, and will be operational in 2009.
The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation works with many strategic partners to catalyze and accelerate the creation of high-tech start-up companies, many based on intellectual properties from IU. In addition, the Kelley School's Center for the Business of Life Sciences is the point of contact for students seeking information on life sciences companies, and for life sciences companies that are interested in relationships with the Kelley School of Business.
Indiana Initiative for Economic Development
This initiative supports commercial use of advanced supercomputing to enhance the competitiveness of Indiana companies. It provides consulting and access to IU’s Big Red and partnered efforts with Purdue University, IBM, and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.
The Solution Center at IUPUI is a first point-of-contact for the IUPUI campus. The staff assists business, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations in accessing the resources appropriate to meet their challenges and reach their goals.
Representative Centers, Programs and Institutes
The Biocomplexity Institute's focus is the study of the emergence of self-organized, complex behaviors from the interaction of many simple agents. Such complexity is a hallmark of life, from the organization of molecules into cellular machinery, through the organization of cells into tissues, to the organization of individuals into communities.
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics brings world-class research in these areas to Indiana with special emphases on the problems of identifying the functions and structures of various protein entities in a manner that stimulates both academic and commercial collaborations.
Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics is multidisciplinary research center serving the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The center carries out independent research in genomics and bioinformatics, collaborates with and/or assists projects developed by faculty, and promotes interdepartmental and interdisciplinary interactions.
The Center on Philanthropy focuses on increasing knowledge about the nonprofit or philanthropic sector and improving the practices of giving, fundraising, nonprofit organization management, and other aspects of philanthropic activity through basic and applied research. Its credibility and methodological rigor set the standard for the field.
College Arts & Humanities Institute
CAHI's goal is to support the scholarly and creative initiatives of IU College faculty, in order to foster both individual research activities as well as interdisciplinary cooperation among individuals, groups and programs in the arts and the humanities. The Institute sponsors conferences, workshops, performances, and offers research travel grants as well as fellowships to the faculty in arts and humanities in the College.
The Fairbanks Institute is a research collective that will conduct a long-term predictive health study dedicated to building health communities in Indiana and the nation.
Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt)
Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative focuses on metabolomics and cytomics, emerging fields that are shedding light on cell metabolism and function.
Indiana University Center for Bioethics
The mission of the IU Center for Bioethics is to advance the academic and public understanding of bioethics; to inform the development of social and public policy in health, research, and related fields; and to provide support for ethics services at hospitals that are clinical partners with IU.
The IAS is Indiana University’s leading center for the pursuit of new knowledge and new directions of inquiry in all fields of study. It pursues its goals and contributes to the university’s research mission by supporting intellectual exchanges that are primarily collaborative and interdisciplinary. The IAS invites distinguished scholars, scientists, and artists from throughout the world to one or more of the university campuses to work on specific projects with faculty and students, brings to the university eminent speakers from all fields of human endeavor, and sponsors multidisciplinary seminars and working groups on the Bloomington campus that promise fresh insights and can lead to future funding.
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
The IDAH enables and expands digitally based arts and humanities projects at IU by bringing together scholars, artists, librarians and IT experts. The institute draws on established strengths at the IU Bloomington campus in combining arts and humanities disciplines and information technology, such as the Variations digital music library, the EVIA digital video archive of ethnographic music and dance, 3-D virtual reality work by IU artists and the IU Digital Library Program.
Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science (GCBS) was established to advance the understanding of complex biological processes and to train next generation scientists in state-of-the-art biomolecular measurements, especially in the field of neuroscience.
New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program
This program is in its fifth year of funding by the Lilly Endowment. Its goal is to help Indiana University faculty members to expand their work into disciplinary or interdisciplinary frontiers that promise new insights into the human condition or pursue innovative directions in artistic creativity.
The Regenstrief Institute, affiliated with the IU School of Medicine, is an international leader in medical informatics, health services, and aging research.
Patient Care/Clinical Trials
The Office of Clinical Research supports and promotes clinical research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals. The office serves investigators and their staff, assists research volunteers, and works as a liaison for industries seeking to place clinical studies at IU.
Clinical faculty physicians at the IU School of Medicine provide patient care at more than 100 locations throughout Indiana. The School of Medicine has clinical partnerships with:
- Clarian Health Partners, which includes
- Riley Hospital for Children
- Indiana University Hospital
- Methodist Hospital
- Wishard Health Services, which IU School of Medicine manages under contract to the Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County
- Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Larue Carter Hospital
Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute
The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI) in Bloomington is one of only five such centers in the nation, providing the Midwest with an alternative to standard X-ray irradiation — a precise form of treatment with minimal side-effects that limits damage to surrounding tissue. MPRI has been treating patients since 2004, about 10 years after the neighboring IU Cyclotron Facility treated its first patient in 1993.
Research Partners
Bloomington Life Sciences Partnership
Indiana Center for Insect Genomics
Indiana Economic Development Corporation
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