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.
24-25 Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
24-25 Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Annual Report
Meetings
TBD
Membership
Committee Chair
Kathrynn Pounders, Associate Professor, School of Advertising and Public Relations
Chair Elect
TBD
2022-2025
Cara Young, Associate Professor, School of Nursing (replacing former member, spring 2024)
Andrew Ellington, Professor, Molecular Biosciences
Johann Hofmann, Professor, Integrative Biology
2023-2026
Indranil Bardhan, Professor, Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Lisa Griffin, Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education
Kathrynn Pounders, Associate Professor, School of Advertising and Public Relations
2024-2027
Teresa Hubbard, Professor, Art and Art History
Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Mary M Velasquez, Professor, School of Social Work
2024-2025 Faculty Council Representatives
Jordan Conwell, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Laura Fonken, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy
College or School Administrator with vote
2023-2024
Andreas Matouscheck, Associate Dean for Research, College of Natural Sciences
Staff Members
2023-2025
Michelle Osuna, Senior Research Program Coordinator, Department of Medicine
2024-2026
TBD
Student Members
2024-2025
David Spicer, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Chloe Wright, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Milan Narayan, Senate of College Councils Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2023-2024
Marvin L. Hackert, Associate Dean, Graduate School Representative
Mary A. Steinhardt, Associate Vice President For Research