Approved 9/19/11
COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH
Berkeley Division
2009-2010
Annual Report
This report summarizes the activities of the Committee on Research (COR) for 2009-2010.
I. RESEARCH POLICY, ISSUES AND ACTIVITIES
Guests: Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, AVC-Research Robert Price; AVC-Research
Administration and Compliance Patrick Schlesinger, and SPO Director Pam Miller; Professor Sharon Fleming,
Chair, Animal Care & Use Committee; Professors Chris Ansell and Jane Mauldon, Co-Chairs, Committee for
the Protection of Human Subjects; and Professor Jack Citrin, Chair, Research Administration Advisory
Committee
COR members met the systemwide Commission on the Future Research Strategies Working Group to furnish
input to the Group in formulating its recommendations. Subsequently, the committee submitted a detailed
memorandum in response to the recommendations outlined in the draft Commission report.
To offset the impact of the University furlough program on younger faculty this year, the Executive Vice
Chancellor & Provost furnished COR with a special allocation to offer summer research supplements to those
who had a nine-month salary of $85K or less, and who did not have other sources of support or remuneration
to compensate for the reduced income. The supplements were intended to help those colleagues who may
have had to seek other options in lieu of pursuing their research or scholarship during the summer. A total of
$671,079 in summer grants were awarded to132 assistant and associate faculty.
COR members served on various committees including:
• Campus Technology Council
• Business Resumption Coordination Group
• Hellman Award
Changes to the COR Research grant program
 Faculty whose total research support exceeds $25,000 in the grant year became ineligible to apply for a
competitive award including funding from external agencies, and internal sources including start-up.
 The Junior Faculty Research Grant was eliminated and combined with the Faculty Research grant.
II. RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
(A) FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS (FRG)
This program consists of competitive awards averaging about $4,500 to provide funding to initiate research
experimentation, humanistic scholarship or creative projects. The following Table describes the number of
awards and amounts awarded per academic subgroup in 2009-2010. (The departments included in each
subgroup, and information by department is presented at the end of this report.)
(A) Faculty Research Grants 2009-2010
*COR SUBGROUPS
Biosciences
Humanities
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences I
Social Sciences II
TOTAL
Number of
Proposals
10
34
1
27
21
93
Funds requested
48,487
211,477
9,000
179,945
141,931
590,840
Number of
proposals
awarded
8
30
1
21
20
80
Amount
awarded
35,200
123,962
5,000
90,400
70,600
325,162
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(B) Research Assistantship in the Humanities
This program is intended to provide intellectual and professional opportunities to graduate students working in
the humanities and social sciences. Projects must benefit a Graduate Student Researcher as well as
contributing to the faculty memberʼs research. These grants are up to $4,000.
Research Assistantship in the Humanities Grants 2009-2010
COR SUBGROUPS
Biosciences
Humanities
Social Sciences I
Social Sciences II
TOTAL
Number of
Proposals
1
15
14
1
31
Funds Requested
4,000
56,296
52,380
3,000
115,676
Number of
proposals
awarded
1
13
11
1
26
Amount
awarded
4,000
48,500
41,880
3,000
97,380
(C) BRIDGE GRANTS
This program allows mid-career faculty the opportunity to explore new scholarly or research directions that
substantially depart-in theoretical content, application, or experimental approach-from their professional path
to date. The grants provide up to $20,000 for a two-year period.
COR
Number of
Funds
Number of
Amount
SUBGROUPS Proposals
requested proposals
awarded
awarded
Biosciences
Humanities
1
20,000
1
10,000
Physical
Sciences
Social
40,000
4
69,745
4
Sciences I
Social
Sciences II
TOTAL
5
89,745
5
50,000
D) RESEARCH ENABLING GRANTS (REG)
This program provides up to $1,000 to support basic research expenses.
RESEARCH ENABLING GRANTS 2009-2010
COR
Number of Funds
SUBGROUPS
Proposals
requested
Number of Amount
proposals awarded*
awarded*
Biosciences
16,430
22
18,430
20
Humanities
137
117,135
143
129,635
Physical Sciences 35
27,900
35
25,900
Social Sciences I
75
79,950
79
71,950
Social Sciences II
42
40,908
43
40,408
TOTAL
309
282,823
322
286,323
*The number of proposals and amounts awarded includes "default" grants to unsuccessful Faculty
Research Grant applicants.
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III. CONFERENCE TRAVEL AND INTERCAMPUS TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM
• Because of budget constraints this year, travel grants were reduced to a flat $600 for all ladder rank and
other eligible Senate members.
A COR travel grant supports a scheduled presentation of an applicantʼs original research or creative work at
one of the following: a major meeting of a recognized learned society, an organized panel discussion, or an
and conference/panel organizers.
In 2009-10, 335 faculty were able to participate in conferences of importance in their research areas, share
and exchange information, and present the culmination of their artistic endeavors. Total travel grant outlay
was $188,000.
The intercampus travel program provides up to $250 to faculty and graduate students for short-term trips to:
1) use special research facilities (including the Huntington Library in Los Angeles);
2) collaborate with colleagues at other UC campuses; and
3) invite a faculty member from another UC campus to present a seminar at
Berkeley.
This year, the committee awarded 10 faculty and graduate students $2,390 to undertake these activities.
*COR SUBGROUP DEPARTMENTS
BIOSCIENCES
HUMANITIES
Environmental
Science & Policy
Management
Integrative Biology
MCB
Nutritional Science &
Toxicology
Optometry
Plant & Microbial
Biology
Psychology
Public Health
Vertebrate Zoology
Art Practice
Classics
Comparative
Literature
East Asian
Languages &
Culture
English
Film
French
German
History of Art
Italian
Music
Near Eastern St.
Philosophy
Rhetoric
Scandinavian
Studies
Slavic Languages
& Literatures
Spanish &
Portuguese
Theater, Dance &
Performance
Studies
PHYSICAL
SCIENCES
Astronomy
Bioengineering
CEE
Chemistry
Chemical
Engineering
Earth & Planetary
Science
EECS
Energy & Resources
Group
IEOR
Mathematics
Mechanical
Engineering
Material Sciences &
Engineering
Physics
Statistics
SOCIAL
SCIENCES I
AfricanAmerican St
Anthropology
Economics
City & Regional
Planning
Education
Ethnic Studies
Gender &
Womenʼs
Studies
Geography
History
Landscape
Architecture
Linguistics
Political Science
Social Welfare
Sociology
SOCIAL
SCIENCES II
Agriculture &
Resource
Economics
Business
Demography
Economics
Journalism
Jurisprudence
& Social Policy
Law
Public Policy
School of
Information
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Faculty Research Grants 2009-2010
DEPARTMENT
Anthropology
Architecture
Art Practice
Business
City & Regional
Planning
Classics
East Asian
Languages & Culture
Economics
Education
English
ESPM
Ethnic St.
Gender & Womenʼs
Studies
German
History
History of Art
Industrial Engineering
& Operations
Research
Integrative Biology
Italian Studies
Law
Linguistics
Music
AWARDS
5
3
2
4
AMOUNT
16,800
8,850
11,000
20,400
FULL
3
2
1
1
2
4,500
7,000
1
1
7
5
5
2
1
2,100
26,950
27,200
16,200
9,613
7,000
1
2
2
1
2,500
4,700
4,400
3,000
1
1
1
8
2
5
5,000
4,950
6,000
23,250
9,450
30,400
Near Eastern Studies
Nutritional Sciences &
Toxicology
Plant & Microbial
Biology
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health
Rhetoric
Scandinavian
Slavic Languages &
Literature
Sociology
SSEAS
Spanish &
Portuguese
Theater, Dance &
2
ASSOC
1
1
1
2
ASST
1
2
2
3
1
2
2
1
1
1
3
3
3
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
4
1
3
4
1
2
10,000
1
1
1
7,000
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
5,000
2,700
6,510
2,127
2,700
7,000
2
1
1
9,400
7,000
2,400
1
1
2
1,235
10,827
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
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Performance Studies
TOTAL
79
325,162
35
16
Research Assistantship in the Humanities Grants 2009-2010
DEPARTMENT
AWARDS AMOUNT FULL
ASSOC
Architecture
1
3,880
1
East Asian Studies
1
3,500
1
Education
2
8,000
1
English
3
12,000
1
Environmental
Science & Policy
Management
1
4,000
1
Gender & Womenʼs
St.
1
4,000
German
1
4,000
1
History
3
10,000
3
History of Art
2
8,000
2
Law
1
3,000
Near Eastern Studies
2
6,000
1
1
Political Science
3
12,000
2
Scandinavian
1
4,000
1
SSEAS
1
4,000
1
Spanish &
Portuguese
1
4,000
Theater, Dance &
Performance Studies
2
7,000
1
TOTAL
26
97,380
13
5
28
ASST
EMERITUS
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
7
1
Research Enabling Grants 2009-2010
DEPARTMENT
AfricanAmerican St.
Agriculture &
Resource
Economics
Anthropology
Architecture
Art Practice
Business
Chemical Eng.
Chemistry
CEE
Classics
Comparative Lit
Demography
East Asian
Studies
Economics
NUMBER
AWARDED
(INCLUDES
DEFAULT
AWARDS
AWARDS
(INCLUDES
DEFAULT
AMOUNTS
FULL
1
1,000
1
1
8
8
5
7
2
3
2
8
500
7,000
6,500
4,500
6,977
1,000
1,500
2,000
7,000
4
1
5
3
ASSOC.
AST
EMERITUS
OTHER
SENATE
TITLE
DEFAULT
1
4
3
2
5
2
1
2
2
1
3
1
3/2.500
1/1,000
2
3
1
3
1
2
3,500
481
1
2
5,000
3,000
1
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
2
1/1,000
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Education
EECS
English
ESPM
Ethnic St.
Film Studies
French
Gender &
Women's St.
Geography
German
History
History of Art
Industrial
Engineering &
Operations
Research
Integrative
Biology
Italian
Journalism
Jurisprudence
& Social Policy
Law
Linguistics
Mathematics
MSE
Mechanical
Eng.
MCB
Music
Near Eastern
Nuclear Eng
Nutritional
Science &
Toxicology
Optometry
Philosophy
Political
Science
Psychology
Public Health
Public Policy
Rhetoric
Scandinavian
School of
Information
Slavic Studies
Social Welfare
Sociology
5
3
39
3
9
2
10
5,000
2,500
36,495
2,500
8,500
2,000
9,140
1
2
14
2
4
2
2
11
6
2
2,000
2,000
9,000
4,500
5,000
1
2
5
2
2
1
8
7,000
4
2
4
1
3
3,000
1,000
2,950
2
3
21
9
13
2
3,000
20,000
7,950
9,400
1,000
3
16
4
5
1
4
8
7
1
500
2,500
6,000
6,000
500
1
3
3
1
2
2
1
7
2,000
980
7,000
2
1
3
3
1
10
5
3
3
4
2
9,000
4,450
3,000
2,500
3,000
2,000
3
4
3
2
3
2
1
9
1
18
1,000
8,000
1,000
17,500
1
5
1
12
5
3
1
13
3
3
2
3
1
1
9
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
3
1
2
3/2500
2
2
1
2
1
1
3
3
1
2
2
7
2
1/500
1
3
4
2
1
2
1
1/1,000
1
2
2
1
1
1
2
1
4
1
1/1,000
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South &
Southeast
Asian St.
Spanish &
Portuguese
Statistics
Theater, Dance
TOTALS
4
3,500
1
2
8
1
4
7,500
500
4,000
2
3
320
286,323
147
1
2
1
1/1,000
1
2
2
65
33
75
2
13/11,000