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Mobilizing for Research Opportunities in the Next Century
no. 102 - July 1998

A Merrill Center publication
on the Research Mission of Public Universities

Table of Contents

(printer-friendly version of the 1998 publication)

Introduction
by Mabel Rice, Director of the Merrill Center

Executive Summary

Keynote Address
Organizing to Respond to External Research Opportunities: Dimensions of Concern for University Collective Action
by Michael M. Crow, Vice Provost, Columbia University

Response to the Keynote Address
by Robert E. Barnhill, Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service, University of Kansas

Panel of Vice Chancellors

Mobilizing for New Partnerships
by Jack O. Burns, Vice Provost for Research, University of Missouri - Columbia

Issues for Medical Center Research
by A.L. Chapman, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Kansas Medical Center

Panel on Federal Funding and Industry Partnerships

The EPSCoR Challenge: An Issue of Research Competitiveness
by Ted Kuwana, Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas, and Project Director of NSF EPSCoR Program in Kansas

Building Successful Industry/University Partnerships in Information and Telecommunication Sciences
by Victor S. Frost, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, University of Kansas

Panel on Collaborative Humanities and Cross-Disciplinary Work in Chemistry

Research Opportunities and the Humanities
by Maria Carlson, Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas

The End of Interdisciplinary Research
by Richard L. Schowen, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas

Women in Science
by Deborah Powell, Executive Dean and Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, University of Kansas School of Medicine

Panel on Enhancing Successful Scientists

Enhancing Successful Researchers amidst the Information Explosion
by Stephen C. Fowler, Professor of Human Development, Senior Scientist in the Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas

How to Enhance Successful Scientists
by Steve Schroeder, Director, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas

Panel of Provosts
by David E. Shulenburger, University of Kansas

Panel of Chancellors
by James Moeser, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

List of Participants

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