20-21 C11 Research Policy Committee

FUNCTION: To advise the Faculty Council and the president on matters relating to the research mission of the University and the relationship between it and other aspects of the University's overall mission; to provide for wider dissemination of information concerning the research mission of the University, how that mission is being discharged, and how it might be enhanced.

COMPOSITION: Nine (9) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms, one (1) school or college administrator (associate dean for Research) for a one (1) year term, and two (2) research staff members for two (2) year staggered terms. No more than two (2) faculty members of the committee shall be from a given college or school. One (1) undergraduate student appointed by the president from a panel of two (2) names submitted by the Senate of College Councils and two (2) graduate students appointed from a panel of four (4) names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. At least one (1) of the graduate student members of the committee shall be enrolled in one (1) of the Ph.D. programs of the Graduate School. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two (2) voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one (1) year terms. Each fall, the committee shall elect a chair elect who shall be a voting faculty member of the committee, though, if that proves impossible, it shall elect a vice chair as an interim measure, while continuing to seek a chair elect. Each committee shall make an annual report on its work, in writing, to the General Faculty and Faculty Council. Both the vice president for research and the dean of the Graduate School shall serve as administrative advisors to the committee without vote.

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2020-2021 Membership

2020-21 Committee Chair
William Charlton, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Email: wcharlton@austin.utexas.edu

Vice Chair and/or Chair Elect
To be determined
Email:

2018-2021

Noël B. Busch-Armendariz, Professor, Social Work
Qin Huang, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (replaced Austin Cooney, Associate Professor, Pediatrics)
Alexandra Loukas, Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education

2019-2022

Roger T. Bonnecaze, Professor, Chemical Engineering
Shannon E. Cavanagh, Associate Professor, Sociology
William Charlton, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

2020-2023

Sharon D. Horner, Professor, Nursing
Erin Lentz, Assistant Professor, Public Affairs
Elizabeth Matsui, Professor, Population Health

2020-2021 Faculty Council Representatives

Spencer Smith, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Daniel Stockli, Professor, Geological Sciences

College or School Administrator with vote

2020-2021

Dean R. Appling, Associate Dean, Natural Sciences

Staff Members

2020-2021

Paloma S. Diaz, Assistant Director, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

2020-2022

Julie Hayes, Associate Director and Microscopy Facility Director, Center for Biomedical Research Support

Student Members

2020-2021

Josch Lampe, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Antonio Andres Rodriguez, Senate of College Councils Representative
Sangamithra (Sanju) Vardhan, Graduate Student Assembly Representative

Administrative Advisers without Vote

2020-2021

Marvin L. Hackert, Associate Dean, Graduate School Representative
Mary A. Steinhardt, Associate Vice President For Research