Research and Scholarship Committee

Charges

Mandate from Policy B02.0

The Research and Scholarship Committee shall formulate, monitor, and review policies and procedures pertaining to research operations and facilities, research regulation and compliance, and infrastructure in support of scholarly activities.  The committee shall also serve as liaison for the Senate with the vice president of Research and with other appropriate administrators and administrative policy bodies of the university.  The committee shall consist of one faculty member per college, each to be elected by their collegial faculty; three members at large elected by the Faculty Senate; one associate dean for Research (or equivalent) selected by the Deans Council; and the vice president for Research or their delegate (ex-officio, voting).

Charges for AY 2024:

New Charge

  1. Develop and propose a university research policy to establish standards for evaluating research that meets university criteria in addition to college-level criteria.  This includes winning grants, publishing interdisciplinary work with faculty in other colleges and universities.

Rationale: Grants, interdisciplinary research, and publishing in high-profile journals such as Nature are all consistent with the mission of the university, particularly its research strategy and its goal to be an R1 university. Faculty in some colleges are rewarded with positive evaluations for achieving these things. In other colleges, they are not. Many research standards are best left to the discipline and the faculty publishing in it, but for university research priorities like these, university-level guidance would help faculty pursue them and help administrators evaluate them.

Membership

Poornima Padmanabhan

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Chair AY 2024-2025

At Large Representative

2024-2026 (1st Term)

Bilge Altay

College of Engineering Technology

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Amit Batabyal

College of Liberal Arts

2024-2026 (2nd Term)

Catherine Beaton

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

2024-2025 (1st term)

Claudia Bucciferro

College of Liberal Arts

2024-2026 (1st term)

Cory Crane

College of Health Sciences and Technology

2024-2026 (1st Term)

Craig Foster

College of Art and Design

2024-2026 (1st term)

Seth Hubbard

College of Science

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Bonnie Jacob

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

2023- 2025 (1st Term)

Cory Merkel

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Casey Miller

College of Science

Associate Dean for Research Designee

2024-2026 (1st term)

Ryne Raffaelle

Research

VP for Research

Open Term

Sandra Rothenberg

Saunders College of Business

2024-2025 (1st term)*

Clarence Sheffield Jr

Academic Affairs

2023-2025 (2nd term)

Lu Sun

College of Engineering Technology

Assoc. Dean for Research Delegate

2024-2026 (1st term)

Yosef Zlochower

College of Science

At-large Representative 

2023 - 2025 (1st term)