Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report FY 2005 Table of Contents Research Funding ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Total External Funding............................................................................................................................ 1 OVPR Accomplishments........................................................................................................................ 3 Office of Research Services .................................................................................................................... 3 Office of Sponsored Programs ............................................................................................................... 4 Research Communications Office ......................................................................................................... 5 Research Compliance Programs ............................................................................................................. 5 University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.................................................................................7 Technology Commercialization Office.................................................................................................. 7 Commercialization Alliances Program................................................................................................... 9 UGARF Funding Programs .................................................................................................................10 OVPR Research Centers and Institutes .....................................................................................................11 Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute ..........................................................................................11 Center for Applied Isotope Studies .....................................................................................................12 Center for Humanities and Arts ..........................................................................................................12 Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases .........................................................................13 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center ...........................................................................................14 Creative Development Unit...................................................................................................................15 Georgia Sea Grant .................................................................................................................................15 Institute for Behavioral Research ........................................................................................................16 Institute of Bioinformatics.....................................................................................................................18 Institute of Ecology ...............................................................................................................................19 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center .......................................................................................20 The Plant Center ....................................................................................................................................21 Regenerative Bioscience Center ...........................................................................................................21 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory ...................................................................................................22 University of Georgia Cancer Center ..................................................................................................23 Appendices Appendix A: Research Funds from All Sources............................................................................27 Appendix B: Total Sponsored Awards by Project Type..............................................................28 Appendix C: Total Sponsored Awards by Agency .......................................................................29 Appendix D: Award Comparison by Sponsor...............................................................................30 D-1: Total Awards......................................................................................................30 D-2: General Research...............................................................................................31 D-3: Agricultural Experiment Station......................................................................32 D-4: Instruction ..........................................................................................................33 D-5: Public Service .....................................................................................................34 D-6: Cooperative Extension.....................................................................................35 Appendix E: Five-Year Trend – Awards and Proposals .............................................................36 E-1: Total Awards and Proposals............................................................................36 E-2: General Research Awards and Proposals ......................................................37 E-3: Agricultural Experiment Station Awards and Proposals .............................38 E-4: Instructional Awards and Proposals...............................................................39 E-5: Public Service Awards and Proposals.............................................................40 E-6: Cooperative Extension Awards and Proposals.............................................41 Appendix F: Sponsored Awards by Budgetary/Academic Units...............................................42 Appendix G: Sponsored Activity by Classification of Budgetary Unit ......................................49 Appendix H: Summary of Major Unit by Project Type ...............................................................50 Appendix I: Summary of Facilities and Administrative Costs...................................................49 Appendix K: Governor’s Existing Industry Funds Administered by OVPR ...........................51 Appendix L: Cultivar Development Research Program – Funded Projects.............................54 Appendix M: Faculty Research Grants for Committee and By School/College ......................57 Appendix N: UGARF-Funded Faculty Research Grants ............................................................59 Appendix O: Presidential Graduate Fellows ..................................................................................63 Appendix P: Foreign Travel Support for Faculty and Graduate Students................................64 Appendix Q: Intellectual Property Disclosures .............................................................................68 Q-1: Creative Development Unit: Submitted Materials........................................77 Appendix R: Issued U.S. Patents, Trademarks, Plant Patents, Plant Variety Protection........78 Appendix S: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc..................................................80 Appendix T: Total Awards by Academic Department and Investigator...................................81 Appendix U: Funded Awards by Federal Flow-Through Sponsors.........................................193 Appendix V Funded Sponsor Type and Name..........................................................................202 Appendix W: Organizational Chart of the Office of the Vice President for Research..........208 Appendix X: Summary of Human Subjects Projects by Major Unit and Project Type .........209 Appendix Y: Gift Report to Sponsored Programs.......................................................................210 Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report FY 2005 The University of Georgia has a tripartite Professors, OVPR operating budget, and mission to teach, to serve and to inquire into income generated by research centers and the nature of things. The Office of the Vice institutes as well as by departments. (See President for Research (OVPR) creates and Table 1.) maintains an environment that fosters and promotes UGA research and other creative TOTAL EXTERNAL FUNDING and scholarly activities. UGA research programs contribute to the general body of During FY05, UGA received $222,403,760 in knowledge, which in turn both enhances external support for research, instruction, economic development and improves the public service, the Agricultural Experiment quality of life. Stations and Cooperative Extension Service OVPR coordinates UGA research and projects across the institution. Total external scholarly activities, organizations and funding in FY05 decreased by 2.4 percent personnel. It advocates inquiry and creative compared with the previous year. External activity, identifies areas within the university funding is comprised of contracts, grants and that have high potential for research or agreements from federal, state and corporate scholarly achievement, channels resources sources as well as from private funding into those identified areas, promotes the agencies. hiring of outstanding faculty, and aids in The National Science Foundation, in its procuring and disbursing funds for most recent report (based on FY03 data), conducting research and scholarly activity in ranked UGA as follows: all areas. OPVR also works with the UGA •