college of natural science annual faculty meeting · 2019-12-12 · natsci empower extraordinary...

College of Natural Science Annual Faculty Meeting

November 22, 2019

College of Natural Science

College Faculty Meeting and Awards Ceremony

AGENDA

Friday, November 22, 2019

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

1200 Molecular Plant Science Building

Items:

1) Approval of Agenda for November 22, 2019

2) Approval of Minutes from November 16, 2018

3) State of the College—Phillip M. Duxbury

4) Other Business

a) NatSci Bylaws Faculty Voting Results

i. The bylaws to create a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory

Council were approved

ii. The bylaws to accept changes to NatSci Scholarship & Awards

Committee were approved

1) Awards Ceremony

Attachment:

Report of NatSci Standing Committees


November 22, 2019

MSU’s Empower ExtraordinaryCapital Campaign

▪ July 1, 2011 – December 31, 2018

▪ The College of Natural Science exceeded its $74,050,000 campaign goal by 1%, raising a total of $74,785,586

▪ Overall MSU goal: $1.5B. $1.83B was raised

NatSci Empower ExtraordinaryHighlights

▪ $44,197,538 was received in outright cash or new pledges

▪ $27,809,872 was committed in planned gifts

▪ Faculty, staff and retirees proved to be an important source of support

▪ A total of 665 contributed $6,401,547 in the form of cash, pledges, and future support

NatSci Endowment Highlights

▪ 16 new endowed professorships were created to support chairs and other faculty funds ➢ A total of $21,060,552 was raised for faculty support

▪ 57 new endowments were created to support undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships and other student-related funds➢ A total of $23,962,695 was raised for student support

What’s Next?

▪ Continue to fundraise and secure resources for the college

▪ Strategic themes for corporate and foundation engagement

MSU/NatSci EnrollmentFall 2019

MSU overall – 49,809 students (39,176 undergrads)

NatSci Fall 2019 undergraduate majors 5,606

(plus 953 LBC coordinate majors)

NatSci Fall 2019 incoming freshmen 1,233

(plus 618 LBC freshmen)

NatSci Fall 2019 graduate students 970

(892 Ph.D. students, 78 M.S. students)

College of Natural Science (2017-18)

▪ Tenure stream faculty FTE: 284 (1996): 14%

▪ General fund allocation: $89M ($1,362M): 6.5%

▪ Tuition dollars generated: $197M ($993M): 19.8%

▪ IDC from Grants: $15.8M ($77M): 20.5%

▪ Federal Grant Income: $62.5M (387M): 16.1%

▪ Endowment: $110M

From an ROI perspective, NatSci is a top performer at MSU!

In Addition . . .

▪ Our nuclear sciences programs are top-ranked and run by NatSci faculty members. Current project: construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a $720M DOE-funded particle accelerator construction project scheduled for completion in 2021

▪ The discovery of anticancer platinum drug molecules: cisplatin and carboplatin. Royalties from these drugs are the primary source of funding for the MSU Foundation, which has an endowment of more than $350M. The foundation supports the research mission and entrepreneurial activities at MSU

NatSci 2018-19 Budget

Recurring Budget: $72.87M – up 3.06%

$ 1.47M Salary increases

$ -712k 1% program efficiency reduction

$ 831k University allocation (new funding)

($489k GII salaries; $342k student success,

instructional reform)

Non-Recurring Budget: $9.04M – up 6.38%

$ 667k Program allocations (spousal salaries, retention support)

$ 4.7M Off-campus & online instruction (no change)

$1.2M lost due to “revenue freeze”

$ 3.67M F&A (up $0.33M)

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(March 1 - February 28)

(By NatSci Departments under all MAUs)

Department LeadershipChanges

Jeffrey Schenker

▪Acting Chair, Department of Mathematics

Program LeadershipChanges

Robin Buell

▪Director, Plant Resilience Institute


Peggy Petroff

▪Director, Cell and Molecular Biology program


Ralph Putnam

▪Director, Program in Mathematics Education (PRIME)

Kellogg Biological StationLeadership Changes

Fredric Janzen

▪Director, Kellogg Biological Station (6/2020)

Leadership Changes in Process

Searches for Chairpersons of:

▪Chemistry

▪Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE)

Search for Program Director of:

▪Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program

New People in NatSci Dean’s Office

▪ Ann Hoffman, research administrator, Office of Research Support

▪ Mistie Jordan, digital assets/social media coordinator, Communications

▪ Teri Compeau, staff

assistant, Dean’s Office

▪ Christiane De Araujo,

data resource analyst,

Budget, Planning

Research and

Administration

NatSci Dean’s Office Changes (con’t.)

▪ Sarah Whitaker, director, Education Abroad & Off-campus Programs, Academic Student Affairs

▪ Christine Nguyen-Koelzer, human

biology/preprofessional advisor,

Academic Student Affairs

▪ Steve Plemmons, senior IT

manager, Information

Technology

NatSci Dean’s Office Changes

▪ In the final stages of selecting a candidate for associate dean for research and budgets, replacing Dave DeWitt

▪ Roger Gray, budget officer, effective Dec. 1, replacing Sonya Ribnicky

New NatSci Faculty Members (14)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology▪ Kelly H. Kim, assistant professor, GII (Cryo-EM), starts 3/2020

Chemistry▪ Elad Harel, assistant professor, GII (ultrafast chemistry)▪ Selvan Demir, assistant professor (inorganic/materials)

Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering▪ Lei Huan, assistant professor (large scale data/comp. statistics) 70%CMSE,

30% STT▪ Saiprasad Ravishankar, assistant professor (biomedical engineering)

Earth and Environmental Sciences▪ Seth Jacobson, assistant professor (planetary geology)

New NatSci Faculty Members (con’t.)

Mathematics

▪ Brent Nelson, assistant professor, (free probability/von Neuman algebra)

▪ Olga Turanova, assistant professor (partial differential equations/nonlinear PDEs)

▪ Preston Wake, assistant professor (algebraic number theory/arithmetic geometry)

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

▪ Sean Crosson, Hugh endowed professor (environmental adaptation in bacteria)

New NatSci Faculty Members (con’t.)

Physics and Astronomy

▪ Daniel Hayden, associate professor (high energy physics)

▪ Wolfgang Kerzendorf, assistant professor (big data and astrophysics) 70%PHY, 30% CMSE

Physiology

▪ Geoffrey Laumet, assistant professor, (neuroscience teaching)

Plant Biology

▪ Emily Josephs, assistant professor/GII (plant genomics)

MSU Global ImpactInitiative (GII)

The GII continues to have a significant impact on the development of MSU and the college:

▪ Total MSU GII hires to date: 87 (27 senior; 60 junior)Pending MSU hires: 5

▪ Total Nat Sci hires to date: 32 (6 senior; 26 junior) –36.8% of total MSU hires

▪ Approved NatSci searches for 2019-20: 1 1 junior-Cryo-EM (BMB/GII)

2019 Early CAREER Award Winners (7)

▪ Daniel Ducat – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/PRL,

2019 (NSF)

▪ Matthew Hirn – Mathematics, 2019 (NSF)

▪ Ilya Kachkovskiy – Mathematics, 2019 (NSF)

▪ Sophia Lunt – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

2019 (NSF)

▪ Liang Liang Sun – Chemistry, 2019 (NSF)

▪ Zhenqi Wang – Mathematics, 2019 (NSF)

▪ Jay Zarnetske – Earth and Environmental Sciences,

2019 (NSF)

Other 2019 Young Investigator Awards

▪ Mohammed Maghrebi, Physics and Astronomy, 2019 Air Force Office

of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program Award

▪ Alex Dickson, BMB and CMSE, 2019 American Chemical Society

OpenEye Junior Faculty Award

▪ Gina Leinninger, Physiology, 2019 American Physiological Society,

Central Nervous System Section New Investigator Award

7 Women 2018 Early CAREER Award Winners

▪ Laura Chomiuk – Physics and Astronomy, 2018 (NSF)

▪ Susannah Dorfman – Earth and Environmental Sciences,

2018 (NSF)

▪ Kristen Hendricks – Mathematics

▪ N. Cecelia Martinez-Gomez – Microbiology and Molecular

Genetics, 2018 (NSF)

▪ Kristin Parent – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

2018 (NSF)

▪ Ashley Shade – Plant Biology, 2018 (NSF)

▪ Michaela TerAvest – Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics,

2018 (NSF)

National/Int’l. Leadership Positions

American Society for Microbiology: President-elect/President

Victor DiRita, Rudolph Hugh Endowed Chair, MMG Chair

American Astronomical Society: President

Megan Donahue, University Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Chemical Sciences

Roundtable member:

Rob Maleczka, Professor and Chair, Chemistry

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chair-elect,

Chemistry Section:

Angela Wilson, MSU Hannah Professor of Computational Chemistry

Foundation/Agency Awards

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of

Infections Disease (PATH) Award:

Kristin Parent, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship:

Matthew Hirn, Mathematics, CMSE

International Myeloma Foundation, Brian D. Novis Senior Research Award:

Jetze Tepe, Chemistry

Professional Society Awards

American Chemical Society: Award in Organometallic Chemistry:

Milton (Mitch) Smith III, Chemistry

American Society for Microbiology: D.C. White Award

Richard Lenski, Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology

2019 University Distinguished Professors

▪ Christoph Benning, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/PRL

▪ Robin Buell, Plant Biology

▪ Megan Donahue, Physics and Astronomy

▪ Robert Hausinger, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Key Initiatives

Long-term goals:

▪ Transform the STEM gateway curriculum around disciplinary core ideas, science practices and cross-cutting concepts

▪ Expand transformation to upper level courses

▪ Improve student learning, persistence and success

Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education

Efforts to improve STEM Gateway

Education are happening in:

▪Biology

▪Chemistry

▪CMSE

▪Math and Statistics

▪Physics

Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education (con’t.)

▪ Ground officially broke for the 117,000 sq. ft. building on August 31, 2018

▪ First classroom building supported by State of Michigan in ~50 years

▪ The facility is scheduled to open Spring 2021

STEM Teaching and Learning Facility

▪ Founded on a group of 15-16 faculty members

▪ Supported by:

➢New Cryo-EM Core Facility

➢Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy upgrade

➢Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Beam Line

➢Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Core Facility

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology

▪ Strong faculty base

▪ Supported by Global Impact Initiative hires: ➢Cryo-EM: one hire and a

second hire being sought

➢Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry commitment to hire in high-field NMR areas

▪ Need to attract large center funding; have significant individual funding

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology (con’t.)

▪ Need to address issues of recruiting

▪ Bring together groups for training grants and project-level

grants

▪ A very promising inter-departmental and inter-college

initiative to build on

▪ NMR facility upgrade is under way, x-ray beamline funding

continuing

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology (con’t.)

Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE)

▪ Currently 35 faculty - 25 hired since 2014 ▪ Joint faculty with 12 departments across campus ▪ Broad base of funding from

NIH, NSF, DOE, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL

▪ Faculty accolades:➢ 1 Sloan ➢ 2 NSF Career➢ 1 AFOSR Young Investigator➢ 1 DARPA Young Investigator➢ 2 DOE Career

CMSE 201/202: Introduction to Computational Modeling and Data Science

▪ Serving ~1000 students per year▪ Only requires Calc 1▪ Teaches basic modeling and

assessment of a model▪ Introduces social awareness (e.g.,

Flint water data, elections)▪ Critical thinking and problem

solving ▪ Now a requirement in a variety of

NatSci departments

Course Success

▪ B.S. in Data Science➢ ~100 core credits➢ 20 credits left for minor in an

application area➢ CMSE (lead), CSE and STT all

contribute ➢ Started fall 2019➢ Have our first 22 majors

▪ New minor in Data Science▪ Minor in CMSE still growing▪ REU with iCER

Undergraduate Degrees

Active Learning

CMSE Graduate Degrees

2019 NRT

DS - Plants

Ph.D.▪ 49 students in Ph.D. program▪ 1 SMART fellow, 1 NSF Fellow, 3

DOE Krell ▪ 51 students in dual Ph.D. program▪ Graduated 4 Ph.D. students▪ NSF-NRT Training grant with Plant

Biology▪ Working on M.S. in data science-

Joint CMSE, Statistics and Computer Science and Engineering

M.S. in Data Science (in process)▪ Graduate Certificate in Computational

Modeling▪ Graduate Certificate in High

Performance Computing▪ Developed Bioinformatics program

What’s Next?

▪ Search for a new chair is going well; four strong final candidates

▪ Continued growth is strong

▪ Algorithms for Data Science and Scientific Computing a major strength

with focus on:

➢ Computational Biology

➢ Applied and Theoretical Physics ➢ Foundations of Methods ➢ Quantum algorithms – underway ➢ Machine Learning – underway

Some Recent Grants

Recent Grants

▪ Real-Time Imaging and Quantification of Plant Cell Wall Constituents Using Cavity-Dumped Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy (DOE), Shiyou Ding, $1.49M

▪ Synergistic integration of topology and machine learning for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and mutation affects (NIH), Guowei Wei, $1.27M

▪ Dimensions: The causes and consequences of leaf trait evolution for hidden life on the phyllosphere: Phylogeny, function, and the genome (NSF), Marjorie Weber, $1.1M

▪ LTER: Mechanisms of resilience in agricultural landscapes (NSF),Nick Haddad (PI), Sarah Evans, Stephen Hamilton, Douglas Landis, Sandra Marquart-Pyatt, G. Philip Robertson, Scott Swinton, $4.5M

Recent Grants (con’t.)

▪ Revealing the Ligand Binding Landscape with Advanced Molecular Simulation Methods (NIH), Alex Dickson, $1.8M

▪ Solid-State NMR of Viral Fusion Peptides and Proteins (NIH), David Weliky, $1.39M

▪ Collaborative Research: Scaffolding Computational Thinking Through Multilevel Systems Modeling (NSF), Joseph Krajcik, $1.27M

▪ Elucidating strategies of Staphylococcus aureus nutrient sulfur acquisition during infection, NIH, Neal Hammer, $2.43M

Training Program Awards

▪ NRT-HDR: Intersecting computational and data science to address grand challenges in plant biology (NSF), Shinhan Shiu, $2.99M

▪ Plant Biotechnology for Health and Sustainability (NIH), T-32 (5-year renewal), Robert Last (PI), Cornelius Barry, Christoph Benning, Federica Brandizzi, Greg Bonito, Robin Buell, Christina Chan, Robert Day, Andrea Doseff, Daniel Ducat, Patrick Edger, Eva Farre, Bjoern Hamberger, Gregg Howe, Beronda Montgomery, Kevin Walker, $1.97M

▪ REU Site: Cross Disciplinary Training in Sustainable Chemistry and Chemical Processes (NSF), Greg Swain (PI), Remi Beaulac, Gary Blanchard, Karen Draths, Thomas Hamann, James Jackson, Benjamin Levine, Robert Maleczka, Kevin Walker, Angela Wilson, $216,043

Equipment Awards

▪ MRI: Acquisition of a Duo Source Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer for the Center for X-ray Crystallographic Research, NSF, Aaron Odom (PI), Babak Borhan, Robert Laduca, Jr., Richard Lunt, Milton Smith, $277,765

NatSci Strategic Planning

Moving into final phase of strategic planning process:

Most units have completed their plans

Five working groups (~10 people in each) have drafted reports: ➢Mission, Vision, Values

➢Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

➢Undergraduate Education

➢Research

➢Graduate Education

Facilitator (Karen Deshon) helping with production of final college documents➢Writing team to be announced Dec. 3

➢Writing during Spring and Summer 2020

Research: Build on Strengths

1. Leverage FRIB

Novel isotopes, Chemistry

Accelerator physics, Physics/ Engineering College

Radiation damage in materials and biology, Engineering, Medicine

Astrophysics (NSF Physics Frontier Center, ICECUBE)

2. Continue and expand strengths in plant sciences and applications

Molecular Plant Sciences (DOE plant research lab). CANR

Ecology and evolution (DOE – GLBRC, KBS, NSF: LTER, LTAR), CANR

Digital Agriculture, CANR

Build on Strengths (con’t.)

3. Strengthen math, statistics, computational sciences

Establish MSU as leader in applying big data to areas of

experimental excellence

(e.g. plant sciences, nuclear physics, veterinary sciences)

4. Strengthen Human biology research with CHM, COM, IQ

Precision medicine

Neuroscience and motivated behaviors (obesity, opiods, etc.)

Antibiotic resistance

Chemical biology and drug discovery

Engage more with industry and foundations

▪ Actuarial science, data analytics (Insurance, financial industry)

▪ Plant sciences, digital agriculture (e.g. Neogen, Zoetis)

▪ Data science, AI and Quantum information science (e.g. Auto industry)

▪ Macrosystems ecology and biodiversity (e.g. IT companies)

…….

Entrepreneurial scholar’s program

Industry-university appointments

White papers to engage foundations and industry, e.g.

1. STEM Education – collaboration with College of Education

2. Food, energy and water: Digital agriculture, with CANR…

3. The phosphorous problem; the PFAS problem

4. Antibiotic resistance: Ecology and evolution of disease

5. Macrosystems ecology and biodiversity

6. The global race for quantum technologies

7. Defeating cancer: precision medicine and chemical biology

College of Natural Science

Awards

2019-20

NatSci Outstanding Faculty Award2019-20

Bruno Basso

Earth and Environmental Sciences


Norman Birge



Richard Lenski

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

NatSci Teacher-Scholar Award2019-20

Michelle Mazei-Robison

Physiology

NatSci Teacher-Scholar Award2019-20

Jay Zarnetske


NatSci Undergraduate Teaching Award2019-20

Ryan Maccombs

Mathematics

NatSci Undergraduate Teaching Award2019-20

Erica Wehrwein

Physiology

NatSci Junior Faculty Mentoring Award2019-20

Lee Kroos

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

NatSci Postdoctoral Mentoring Award2019-20

Wolfgang Mittig


NatSci Distinguished Academic Staff Award

2019-20

Amy Pollock

Chemistry

Undergraduate Academic Advisor Award2019-20

Lori Seischab

Physiology

Graduate Academic Advisor Award2019-20

Lee Kroos


NatSci Support Staff Award2019-20

Lisa Craft

Integrative Biology

NatSci Support Staff Award2019-20

Elvira Martinez-Jones

Physiology

NatSci Excellence-in-Teaching Citation2019-20

Paul Hamerski


NatSci Excellence-in-Teaching Citation2019-20

Reshma Menon

Mathematics

NatSci Undergraduate Learning Assistant Award

2019-20

Grace Cha


NatSci Undergraduate Learning Assistant Award

2019-20

Ashleigh Leary


Lorena V. Blinn Endowed Teaching Award

2019-20

Joyce Parker


James D. Hoeschele Endowed Teaching Award

2019-20

Cholani Weebadde

Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences (CANR)

Ronald W. Wilson Endowed Teaching Award

2019-20

Andrea Bierema

Integrative Biology

Harlo Mervyn Mork Memorial Excellence in Teaching Award

2019-20

Darren Incorvaia

Integrative Biology

NatSci Faculty Teaching Prize2019-20

▪ Jon Stoltzfus, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

▪ Casey Henley, Neuroscience

▪ Rachael Lund, Mathematics

▪ Lynmarie Posey, Chemistry

Norman L. and Olga K. FritzExcellence in Teaching Award

2019-20

Teena Gerhardt

Mathematics

Norman L. and Olga K. FritzExcellence in Teaching Award

2019-20

Paul Irving



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