Research Trends

Ryne RaffaelleVice President for Research

and Associate Provost

April 14, 2014

RIT Research Funding1999 - 2014

Federal Research Funding 1960 - Today

Research Growth and Federal Funding

Comparison of RIT Research Awards to Federal R&D Spending.

Data shows that although we are not immune to the federal funding cycles our competitiveness continues to improve.

Total

Total Federal R&D Funding

Total RIT R&D Awards

Sponsored Research at RIT

Overall, the FY 2014 budget would invest $144.1 billion in R&D. In nominal dollars, this represents an increase of 1.1 percent above FY 2012; however, inflation is expected to reach 4.0 percent between FY 2012 and FY 2014, which means a real-dollar decline for total R&D of 2.9 percent.

Total federal investment in research would rise 6.9 percent to $69.7 billion.

The overall increase for applied research funding would be twice as large as basic research. Nondefense applied research would jump by$3.2 billion, or 12.9 percent

RIT ranks 60st in Non-medical Research Funning

RIT ranks 44th in Non-medical Corporate Funding

Sponsored Research Update

RIT ranks 217th in research expenditures amongst all U.S. institutions.

RIT ranks 180th in corporate research funding amongst all U.S. institutions.

RIT ranks 60st in Non-medical Research Total.($100M get you to 27th)

RIT ranks 44th in Non-medical Corporate Total.

NSF CAREER WinnersWei Le (2014)Assistant ProfessorGCCIS Ph.D. ProgramAnalyzing Programs Changes and Versions for Bug Detection and Diagnosis

Linwei Wang (2014)Assistant ProfessorGCCIS Ph.D. ProgramIntegrating Physical Models into Data-Driven Inference

Callie Babbitt (2013)Assistant ProfessorGolisano Institute for SustainabilityEnd-of-Life Material Flows from Emerging Lithium-Ion Battery Systems

Research InfrastructureSeth HubbardAssociate Professor (prior NSF Career Recipient)MRI: Acquisition of Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) Reactor for Nanostructured Materials

System to grow nanomaterials, $706K award was one of the ten largest from the NSF this year.

It will serve as a great addition to our Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Lab (SMFL)

Improving STEM Education• Interdisciplinary faculty team focused on

scholarship of pedagogy, retention, transforming STEM ed

• $1M NSF STEP award to address retention of 1st generation and DHH

Scott FranklinProfessor of PhysicsDirector of CASTLE

Center for Advancing Science/Mathematics Teaching, Learning, & Evaluation

• RIT wide effort to transform culture and increase female representation in STEM at all levels

• 5 yr, $3.2M effort funded by NSF in 2nd year

• Campus wide projects launched in Feb. to transform culture in colleges Margaret Bailey

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Image Permanence Institute awards• 7 NEH awards

totaling $630,535 FY13-14

• Working with cultural orgs across the country

• 2 IMLS awards totaling $546,029 FY13-14

• Disaster preparedness and energy savings

Innovation Corps – Site Award• Purpose to move federally funded research toward

commercialization• RIT has won two “team” awards• Will receive a “site” award to enhance technology design

entrepreneurship at RIT

NIH funded research

• Predicting ventricular fibrillation– Niels Otani, $309,785, FY14-15

• Bridges to the Doctorate for DHH students– Peter Hauser, w/URMC, $180K/yr, FY13-18

• Toxicity and addition in e-cigarettes– Risa Robinson, $357,222 FY14-16

• Effects of cochlear implants on learning– Marc Marschark, $2.2M, FY13-16