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Innovative Research & Discovery – Phase One
Bernard Arulanandam & Hazem Rashed Ali Presenting
Increase
Research
Expenditure
Recruit
Exceptional
Faculty
Scholars
Facilitate
Breakthrough
Discoveries
Bolster
Partnerships
Expand
Internal
Collaboration
UTSA Tier One 2020 Blueprint:
Innovative Research and
Discovery
Increase Research Expenditure
Team Lead: Bernard Arulanandam
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Internal Strengths
Research support for obtaining funding (federal and state)
Faculty and programmatic strengths
Research infrastructure and environment
Streamlined processes for proposal submissions, managing
and reporting grants
Increase Research Expenditure
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External Opportunities
Regional strengths
Opportunity to identify best practices
UTSA visibility
Increased fundraising
Increase Research Expenditure
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Recommended Approach
Streamline and align businesses processes for grants,
contracts and research facilities
Renew emphasis on customer service across all levels and
communicate benefits of growing the research enterprise at
UTSA.
Review restricted fund expenditures to ensure full counting
of research dollars. Enhance business processes to
capture new restricted fund research expenditures.
Conduct more frequent internal reporting of research
expenditures, to include stakeholders who are directly
involved in managing external funding.
Recruit Exceptional Faculty Scholars
Team Leads: George Perry and Gerry Sanders
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Internal Strengths
Accelerate 2025 Research Framework
The Goldstar Initiative to hire top talent
Core group of research-productive faculty to build upon
HSI status and geographic location
Recruit Exceptional Faculty Scholars
External Opportunities
1. Build and implement “Best-in-Class” faculty
recruitment practices
2. Cluster hiring aimed towards UTSA research
strengths
3. Redirect replacement faculty hires for support of
institutional priorities
4. Change UTSA’s research culture and external
ranking through recruitment of academy members
Recruit Exceptional Faculty Scholars
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Recommended Approach
Establish a “Best-in-Class” Recruitment Program for
recruitment of exceptional faculty scholars, in lieu of
standard recruitment practices.
Raise the UTSA profile in key targeted areas and
scholarly research.
Create a culture which actively seeks and retains “Bestin-Class” faculty scholars.
Build a critical mass of exceptional faculty in defined
areas.
Facilitate Breakthrough Discoveries
Team Lead: Cory Hallam
Internal Strengths
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Entrepreneurial culture for generating new ideas, engaging local industry, and
forming new companies
Close to doubled the output rate compared to other institutions, as measured in
licenses per research expenditure
Proof-of-concept funding to develop technologies for commercialization
Entrepreneurial ecosystem and commitment to early industry involvement
Facilitate Breakthrough Discoveries
External Opportunities
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Opportunities to explore broader collaborative relationships and novel
contractual arrangements (501c3, contracts, sub awards)
International partnerships and funding working together
Startup Center for Undergraduate & Graduate student companies
Secure more external research experiences for UTSA students
Facilitate Breakthrough Discoveries
Recommended Approach
1. Engage with industry/consortia, and venture partners in
translating research into new products and services.
2. Expand public/private partnerships by including programs
that promote sharing of facilities and other resources on
campus, and launching a 501 (c) 3.
3. Cultivate cross-disciplinary programs that encourage
students to pursue careers as innovators and entrepreneurs.
4. Establish policies to encourage technology transfer and
commercialization.
5. Increase the data and technology infrastructure to provide
state of the art facilities to make breakthrough discoveries.
Bolster Partnerships
Team Lead: Harry Millwater
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Internal Strengths
Overall supportive environment for pursuit of innovative
scholarship and programs
Exceptional new faculty that are proactive in developing
partnerships
HSI status and Carnegie Designation
Established partnerships via UTSA organizations/centers,
such as the IED, CAPRI, and P-20
Bolster Collaborations
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External Opportunities
Numerous govt. agencies and NGO’s in region
Increase federal interactions through targeted summer faculty
fellowships/student internships
Leverage inter-governmental personnel act (IPA) to place
faculty at federal agencies
Increase external research partnerships through new and
non-traditional methods
Bolster Collaborations
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Recommended Approach
Expand external partnerships through non-traditional
mechanisms with organizations such as SwRI, Texas Biomed,
Baylor, and San Antonio Military Health System. (501c3
status, MOU’s, CRADA’s, Consortium Agreements, Contracts).
Identify and pursue more opportunities focused towards
HSIs/MSIs and consider partnering with other HSIs/MSIs for
greater capability and impact.
Build upon existing relationships through IED partners
(SBDCs/USAID/NGOs).
Increase Federal Lab interactions through targeted summer
faculty fellowships/student internships and IPA to place faculty
at federal agencies.
Expand Internal Collaborations
Team Lead: Dan Hollas
Internal Strengths
1. The Goldstar Initiative for hiring top talent
2. Cross disciplinary areas of research excellence have
already been identified (i.e., Social and Educational
Transformation, Community Sustainability and Critical
Infrastructures)
3. Investment in faculty and postdocs to increase
collaborative research (Faculty Center, seed grants,
professional development opportunities)
Expand Internal Collaborations
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External Opportunities
UTSA is co-located with high quality research institutions and
large industry in the San Antonio area
UTSA’s regional location is prime for research in key areas
(Gateway to Mexico and Latin Americas)
UTSA is already nationally recognized for excellence in specific
areas and provides opportunity to recruit exceptional faculty
Expand Internal Collaborations
Recommended Approach
1. Include recognition of internal collaborations and
interdisciplinary research in faculty appraisal processes.
2. Further utilize the Faculty Center to implement internal
partnering strategies, such as networking events and crosscollege/departmental lectures and seminars.
3. Create a communications collective focused on increasing
internal collaborations and promoting interdisciplinary
research.
4. Further utilize Centers & Institutes as a means to increase
interdisciplinary research and internal collaborations.
Increase Research
Expenditures
Recruit Exceptional
Faculty Scholars
Facilitate
Breakthrough
Discoveries
Bolster Partnerships
Expand Internal
Collaborations
Bernard Arulanandam
(VPR/COS) (Lead)
Gerry Sanders
(COB) (Co-lead)
Cory Hallam
(VPR/COB) (Lead)
Harry Millwater
(COE) (Lead)
Dan Hollas
(COB) (Lead)
JoAnn Browning
(COE)
George Perry
(COS) (Co-lead)
Miguel Yacaman
(COS)
Joseph Kulhanek
(P-20)
Jaclyn Shaw (ORS)
Thomas Tunstall (IED)
Hamid Beladi (COB)
Sos Agaian (COE)
Rogelio Saenz
(COPP)
Robert Tillyer (COPP)
Beth Manning (VPR)
Jaclyn Shaw (ORS)
Teja Gudo (COE)
Noe Saldana (ORS)
Bill Cooke (COEHD)
Ana Wandless (ORS)
Vincent Canizaro
(COA)
Albert Salgado
(SMBDC)
Albert Salgado
(SMBDC)
Hazem Rashed-Ali
(COA)
Thomas Forsthuber
(COS)
Krisellen Maloney
(Library)
Donovan Fogt
(COEHD/OUR)
Nicole Beebe (COB)
Krystel Castillo (COE)
Sheri Hardison (VPBA)
Joo Ong (COE)
Karen Daas (COLFA)
Cheryl Linthicum
(COB)
Hamid Beladi (COB)
Rebekah Smith
(COLFA)
Raquel Marquez
(COLFA)
Jerry Keating (COB)
Harriet Romo (COLFA)
Jose Lopez-Ribot
(COS)
Can Saygin (VPR)
John McCarrey (COS)
Joanna Lambert
(COLFA)
William Dupont (COA)
Jason Yaeger
(COLFA)
Lloyd Potter (COPP)
Christine Burke (COI)
Jana Kennelly (COE)
Francine Romero
(COPP)
Suat Gunhan (COA)