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Short Term Goals of the Department of Chemistry:
- Maintain and improve the current high ratio of grant funding
per faculty member.
Participate in center proposals in areas of biotechnology.
- Add two assistant/associate professors to replace departed
senior faculty in analytical and organic fields, fields which
are the two most attractive to graduate students.
- Add at least one more faculty member through the Governor's
Biotechnology Initiative.
- Increase Ph.D. student stipends to top of third quartile nationally.
- Explore opportunities for formal Economic Development relationships.
- Attempt to rectify severe limitation of the absence of quality
high field NMR instrumentation by continuing to submit applications
and to seek funding sources.
- Initiate and formalize additional interdisciplinary programs
within Basic Sciences and with other divisions, such as Engineering
and Vet School, especially as these lie within the frameworks
of the Information Technology and Biotech Initiatives and build
on the recent growth in strength in Structural Biology.
- Keep staffing at least at the 1997 level.
- Continue/expand strong outreach, K-12, and undergrad high
tech lab courses; for example, seek outside funds to renovate
space and to equip an integrated laboratory sequence luring
students into the physical sciences.
Long Term Goals of the Department of Chemistry:
- Achieve Quartile I status with the staff, budget, graduate
student profile and stipends, space and instrumentation, and
faculty composition characteristic of a quartile I Chemistry
Dept. in a US Public University.
- Rise to the level of 35 tenure track faculty characteristic
of a quartile I department by adding two senior faculty (bio-organic
and probably computational) and five assistant profs with relevant
fundable interests and with, on balance, a high level of scholarship
required for Quartile I status.
- Change the culture and procedures within Chemistry to adjust
to outside forces [the low popularity of quantitative sciences
among US students, federal agency pressure for team and interdisciplinary
research, state pressure for economic development, the NIH roadmap].
- Despite these forces, strive to achieve a high level of scholarship.
- Maintain and enhance strength by establishing several centers
for the Inter-sub-disciplinary research areas of the department:
Material and Macromolecular Chemistry, Biological and Medicinal
Chemistry, Environmental and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
- Add staff (three technical, one senior academic/programs administrative
assistant)
- Increase Ph.D. student stipends to top of second quartile
nationally.
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