Resources and Infrastructure Meeting
Meeting Date: 15-Jan-16 Montgomery Hall Rm 20
In attendance: Joshua Bronfman, Joelle Ruthig, Jefferson Vaughan
Brad Rundquist and Kristi Bruggeman (College of Arts & Sciences’ non-voting representatives)
Absent: Adam Kitzes (submitted UG research rankings and comments by email) and William Sheridan
(submitted UG rankings and comments and equipment request recommendations by email).
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 p.m.
Matters arising:
Because two committee members were absent, those present deferred the selection of a chairperson
until a later meeting date. Brad Rundquist agreed to summarize the meeting for and to forward
recommendations to Dean Storrs, with prior approval from the committee.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss: 1) departmental equipment requests, and 2) the second
round of proposals submitted to the College of Arts & Sciences’ Undergraduate Research/Creative
Activity Fund.
Equipment requests:
The committee was charged with recommending equipment allocations in the amount of $136,500, with
an additional $25,000 in suggested allocations should money become available at the end of the fiscal
year.
The committee discussed and found some merit in Dr. Sheridan’s e-mailed proposal to prioritize the
funding of research equipment this fiscal year, and to consider only requests for teaching equipment in
the next fiscal year, while not funding requests for office equipment either year because those items
should be provided by the university through departmental operating budgets or some other
appropriate means. Dr. Sheridan also recommended that in the future the dean should separate calls for
research and teaching equipment requests. However, because of the uncertainty over whether
equipment funds will be available in the next fiscal year and because such an approach was not
communicated to department chairs in this year’s call for equipment requests, the committee chose to
consider all requests.
The committee voted to fund the priority one requests for all departments, and then deliberated on the
priority 2 and 3 requests, giving more weight to those proposals asking for research and teaching equipment.
Committee funding recommendations are found in Table 1.
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Table 1: Recommended Equipment Allocations
DEPARTMENT
American Indian Studies
Anthropology & Forensic
Science
AMOUNT
REQUESTED
ALLOCATION
2,613
2,613
1,998
1,998
15,800
8,800
160,324
19,675
29,621
7,729
Communication Program
8,338
3,383
Comm. Sciences & Dis.
13,880
12,300
1,476
1,476
Art & Design
Biology
Chemistry
Criminal Justice
Dean's Office
5,587
1,003
Geography
7,779
3,479
History
4,796
4,796
Humanities / Integrated Studies
0
Interdisciplinary Studies
0
5,741
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy & Religion
Physics & Astrophysics
Psychology
5,425
0
English
Languages
ADDITIONAL
$25,000
5,741
0
29,501
20,901
735
735
20,900
11,400
8,264
900
8,600
3,500
3,864
Sociology
Theatre Arts
Women & Gender Studies
TOTAL
7,215
7,215
24,700
22,300
2,400
136,444
23,789
0
349,268
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Undergraduate research proposals:
Fourteen proposals were submitted to the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fund, requesting
$25,913. The Committee recommended that all fourteen be funded, although they did recommend
budget reductions for two, resulting in final allocation of $23,701.
PI/Dept.
Title
$ requested
$ funded
Darby/Biology
Non-invasive tracking of polar bears by
genotyping passively shed hairs
The role of silencing in hematopoietic gene
regulation
Publics’ Responses to Sports Celebrity
Endorsements Gone Bad: An International
Perspective
$2,000
$2,000
$1,964
$1,964
$1,964
$1,964
Validating sign left after depredation at duck
nests with video confirmation
Is North Dakota an enclave of lost European
genetic diversity?
Spring 2016 International Studies Speaker Series:
UG student research on immigration
Applying research-relating service learning to
heritage tourism as economic development
Multiple dimensions of spatial mismatch, race,
income, job type, and education
EdithWhartonsLibrary.org beta site and database
development
Geopiety: digital anchorhold mapping
$2,000
$2,000
$1,997
$1,997
$2,000
$500
$1,927
$1,927
$1,985
$1,985
$800
$800
$1,959
$1,959
Complicating Settler Colonialism
$1,994
$1,282
The impact of extended time on reading
comprehension in adults with ADHD, learning
disabilities, and/or mood disorders
Unveiling the nature of red-sequence spiral
galaxies
Simulation of Flux Flow in Quasicrystals
$2,000
$2,000
$1,323
$1,323
$2,000
$2,000
Manu/Biology
Manu/Biology
Ellis-Felege/Biology
Ovtchinnikov/Biology
Routon/Languages
Munski/Geography
Niedzielski/Geography
Liming/English
Sauer/English
WeaverHightower/English
Petros/Psychology
Barkhouse/Physics
Loh/Physics
The next meeting will be held in mid- to late February, the purpose of which is to review Student
Technology Fee proposals.
Meeting adjourned at 2:20 p.m.
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