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VII. STANDING COMMITTEES A. Academic and Student Affairs Committee Research at the UW: Status Report For information only. BACKGROUND Research is foundational for our future, with major impact on the region and the world. Research strongly supports our educational mission, providing experiential learning opportunities for a broad range of students. It is estimated that in FY14, external research funding provided on the order of $250M towards supporting such experiential learning opportunities for our students. In addition, faculty bring the excitement of their research into the classroom, inspiring new generations of students. The strength of the existing paradigm of the integration of research and education at the UW is evidenced by the fact that in those disciplines in which externally-funded research is common, the UW Distinguished Teaching Award winners are all strong researchers, including our own Provost. In addition, a number of our strong researchers are also nationally acclaimed educators. We have arranged for some students to share with you their perspective on how research has impacted their educational attainment. Trends in Current Research Funding The UW has a strong research funding profile. We have tripled our research funding over the last twenty years. Since 1979 with one exception (2009), the UW received more federal research funding than any other U.S. public university. Since 1969 we have placed among the top five for total funding for all public and private universities in the country. We are one of the few universities in the US with total research funding over $1B. See chart: Total Grant and Contract Awards by Year 1980-2013 FY14 was another difficult year for federal funding. Total federal funding remained flat after a 5% decrease during FY13 due to sequestration. However, the UW did remarkably well in FY14, with an estimated increase of total funding of 3-5%. It is possible to only estimate the increase due a set of caveats, as follows. The FY13 funding was artificially low due to a delay in federal awards caused by sequestration. Comparing FY13 to FY14 is misleading for this reason, as it shows an artificially large increase. Another caveat for comparisons is that in FY14 we changed our internal reporting to exclude federal and state student aid (e.g. Pell Grants, the State Need Grant) to be in line with the majority of our peers. The chart in your packet entitled Funding Trends by Originating Sponsor reports totals for each year in which the student fiscal aid has been removed, to allow for a direct comparison. This analysis nominally shows a 23% increase in research

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funding from FY13 to FY14, but due to the FY13 funding anomalies, the effective increase is estimated to be in the 3-5% range. This chart also shows a fairly flat trend in federal funding at the UW (excluding the anomalous FY13), but an increase in other categories of funding. This trend reflects the decrease in available federal funding during this time period, and the success of researchers in seeking funding from other sponsors. Competitiveness Strength in research is based on the strength of our researchers, especially our faculty, post-docs, and students. We track our competitiveness in multiple ways. One measure of competitiveness is our federal market share. The NSF publishes total federal funding statistics, which allows us to track our national market share for federal funding. The chart entitled UW Marketshare of Federal Funding shows the trend since 1992. Our market share has stayed remarkably constant until 2010, when it started to increase. For the past 4 years we have experienced a general upward trend, underscoring our increasing competitiveness. Our estimated market share for 2014 is 3.4%, compared to an historical average of 2.8%. Another important competitiveness indicator is our ability to obtain and manage large collaborative projects. We have 284 research centers, with collaborations across 158 different departments and 139 interactions with external partners that include university, federal, state, industry, international and foundation partners. We are unable to formally benchmark this statistic as it is not tracked nationally, but anecdotal analysis suggests we are highly competitive for such projects. See chart: Faculty Collaborative Research is Strong Why is the UW competitiveness increasing? We predict this is first and foremost, a reflection of the strength of our faculty and their ability to attract top post-docs, students, and other researchers. When funding is tight, quality wins. Second, as a major public research institution, we have both strength and depth, and our breadth helps our competitiveness for projects focused on solving large complex societal problems. Finally, the UW has invested in new research facilities over the past 10 years that have not only facilitated recruitment and retention of top faculty, post-docs, and students, but have also provided modern facilities necessary to expand research activity. Expected Trends in Future Research Funding The AAAS tracks Federal R&D trends, and they have demonstrated that over the past 10 years, non-defense R&D spending has decreased in 2014 constant dollars. They predict that the future trend will be essentially flat funding for the next few

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years, unless the Congress re-implements sequestration when the current agreement expires, which would result in a further decrease. See chart: Trends in Federal R&D FY1976-2015 AAAS UW Measures to Ensure Competitiveness The tight funding climate and uncertainties for the future require a proactive approach to maintain our competitive edge. The UW continues to prioritize investment in recruitment and retention of top faculty, post-docs, students, and staff, in support for collaborative research, and in development of modern research facilities. In addition, as an institution we invest in a number of ongoing programs to enhance the research environment, including decreasing the administrative burden on researchers, providing seed and bridge funds for research, and partnering with deans on recruitment and retention strategies. Summary We are investing in our future by enabling research advances that maintain our competitiveness and the strength and health of the research enterprise. Our competitiveness remains strong and research funding continues to grow in the face of a highly restricted federal funding climate. Attachments Total Grant and Contract Awards by Year 1980-2013 Funding Trends by Originating Sponsor FY 2010-2014 UW Marketshare of Federal Research Funding Faculty Collaborative Research is Strong Trends in Federal R&D, FY1976-2015 AAAS Student presenters’ biographical information

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Federal 1,140,928,065 1,184,858,598 1,135,989,705 929,011,977 1,083,635,531Foundations 63,334,017 91,072,332 80,379,409 74,319,533 111,543,444Other 73,827,730 75,071,614 83,629,371 61,206,987 97,183,297Industry 39,804,577 45,551,974 63,511,573 58,350,814 93,126,742Grand Total 1,317,894,389 1,396,554,517 1,363,510,057 1,122,889,310 1,385,489,014

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Total Number of UW Research Centers 284Number of Different Departments 158Total Number of External Partners 139

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Student Presenters’ Biographical Information

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Klondy Karina Canales was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and is Latin American by Honduran heritage. She came from a low-income single parent household, and is a first generation college student. She graduated in June with a Bachelors of Science in Public Health and a minor in Music. Klondy has presented her research at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference in Anaheim (October 2010) and was awarded The DuPont Award for

Outstanding Research Presentation in microbiology. She has won poster presentation awards at the NSF Emerging Researchers National (ERN) conference in STEM in Washington DC (February 2011) and the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) national conference in St. Louis (November 2011), all for her work on diabetes. She has been with the Zhang lab since July 2013 and works with Ph.D student Travis Cook. In addition, she is an intern with Public Health Seattle and King County Environmental Health Department. Klondy will be a Peace Corps health volunteer in South Africa starting January 2015 and hopes to go to graduate school in the near future and earn a Ph.D.

David Coven is a 2012 Costco Diversity Scholar who is double-majoring in mechanical engineering and mathematics. David attended high school in Cleveland, and comes from a low-income single-parent household. As a high school student, David created FeedMyCollegeFund.com, a website devoted to filtering through financial resources. As a UW student, he has made numerous resource presentations with Scholarship Junkies, a program that hosts scholarship workshops with the UW Dream Project.

David is a member of the Luscombe Research Group in Materials Science and Engineering, which focuses on the synthesis and applications of organic electronic polymers; and has presented his work at the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) conference of American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C.

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Jamie Rose Kuhar grew up in Washington, DC and graduated from Emory

University in 2009 with a Bachelors of Science in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and a minor in Japanese. She is currently a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington. As an undergraduate, Jamie worked in the laboratories of Dr. Michael Davis and Dr. Raymond Dingledine. These experiences lead to a first author publication (Levin et al., 2012). Since starting her Ph.D. program at the University of Washington in 2010, she has been

working in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Chavkin to better understand how pain medication causes negative side effects in the hopes of developing safer therapeutics. In this time, she has also mentored and trained 3 undergraduate students who have all contributed to her thesis work and pending first author publication (Kuhar et al., In Revision). In addition to her research in the Chavkin lab, Jamie works as a Technology Licensing Fellow at the UW Center for Commercialization and is President of the Science and Engineering Business Association. After graduation, she plans to utilize her research and extracurricular experiences to pursue a career in life science business development and commercialization.