Building Cross-University Alliances that Enhance Research
no. 103 - July 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(printer-friendly version of the 1999 publication)

Introduction
Mabel Rice, Director, Merrill Advanced Studies Center

Executive Summary

Keynote Address
Clusters and Collaborations in the New Research Economy:
Creating Strategic Intent among Universities
Luis M. Proenza, President, University of Akron

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

Panel of Researchers

Wheat Genetics Resource Center: pioneering Center without Walls
Bikram S. Gill, Director, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University

The Benefits of Collaboration to Graduate Education
George S. Wilson, Professor or Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas

Panel of Vice Chancellors for Research

Mission Enhancement at the University of Missouri
Jack O. Burns, Vice Provost for Research, University of Missouri - Columbia

Managing Intellectual Property Arising from Research
P.B. Swan, Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies, Iowa State University

Graduate Education and Research in the Year 2000: Fashioning Horizontal Flexibility in a Vertical World
R.W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research, Kansas State University

Panel of Researchers

Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities: Recipes for Elephant and Rabbit Stew
Roberta Johnson, Director, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas

Increasing Research Flexibility with Endowment Funds (In Defense of Research by Serendipity)
Don Steeples, Professor of Geophysics, University of Kansas

Is Anyone Out There Listening?
Marilyn Stokstad, Professor of Art History, University of Kansas

Special Presentation
Eliminating the Scholarly Communication Crisis: From Here to NEAR
David E. Shulenburger, Provost, University of Kansas

Panel of Deans and Chairs

Agricultural Biotechnology: Competitiveness through Multi-State Collaboration
Marc A. Johnson, Dean of Agriculture, Kansas State University

Nurturing Multi-Disciplinary Nutritional Sciences on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
Roger A. Sunde, Chair, Nutritional Sciences, University of Missouri - Columbia

A Business-Oriented View of the Academy
Andrew J. Blanchard, Director of Research, College of Engineering, University of Missouri

The Dean's Role in Fostering Collaborative, Multi-Disiplinary Research
Sally Frost Mason, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas

Panel of Researchers / Administrators

Of Baseballs and Foul Balls: The Context for Research in the Kansas Board of Regents Office
Kim A. Wilcox, Executive Director, Kansas Board of Regents

Marshalling Forces in a Competitive Research Environment--Some Slippery Issues
Charlotte R. Bronson, Professor of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University

"Herding Cats"--A New Inter-Institutional Science Network
Bruce Harmon, Deputy Director, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University

Panel of Chancellors

Richard L. Wallace, University of Missouri - Columbia
Robert Hemenway, University of Kansas

List of Conference Participants