COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
The scientific core of Texas A&M
• Who are we?
• What roles are we playing?
• What challenges do we face?
• What is our impact under Vision 2020?
• What are our goals?
WHO ARE WE?
• Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics
• The three basic laboratory sciences, plus the
two basic mathematics sciences
• Cyclotron Institute
• Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology
• Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis
• Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center
for Teaching and Learning
• Institute for Quantum Studies
• Others …
• Important members of genetics, nutrition, neuroscience,
materials science intercollegiate faculties
SCIENCE AT A GLANCE
• Dual role: huge service teaching load and strong
basic/interdisciplinary research program
• 213 tenured/tenure-track faculty (12% of TAMU);
1,850 undergraduates; 650 graduates
• 20% of sem. credit hours; 35% of TAMU indirect cost
• 18 of 40 distinguished professors; 6 of 25 University
Faculty Fellows
• 2 National Academy of Sciences members
• CHEM, STAT among top 3 of TAMU departments
ranked in National Research Council; top 10 nationally
• BIOL, MATH, PHYS rising rapidly since earning
second quartile ranking
SCIENCE AT A GLANCE
• National leader in production of minority, female Ph.D.s
• 22 tenured/tenure-track female faculty (7 professors,
no fewer than one in each dept.); 8 minorities
• Most faculty in each dept. have peer-reviewed funding
• Most young faculty have CAREER, NYI, Sloan awards
• Extensive teaching experts/quality control in large
lower division courses
• Development efforts on the rise over past five years,
including 8 Bright or AUF matches
• Leaders locally/nationally in technology-mediated
instruction
• State/national leaders in confronting mathematics
and science teacher shortage
CHEMISTRY
• 6 distinguished professors, 46 tenured/tenure-track;
200 majors, 230 graduate students
• 4th in undergraduate SCH, 2nd in graduate SCH
• Arguably strongest department on campus
• Highest TAMU NRC rating (4.11 of 5; next highest 3.81)
• 15th of 168 programs nationally (.089), which also
ranks as highest percentile
• Up from 3.65, 22nd in 1982 NRC
• Inorganic 7th, 6th of 15 peers
• Top nationally in Ph.D. production (total and minority)
• Produces half again as many Ph.D.s as any other
dept. at A&M
STATISTICS
• 2 distinguished professors, 25 tenured/tenure-track;
Statistics option in APMS, roughly 100 grad. students
• 34th in undergraduate SCH, 4th in graduate SCH
• Third highest TAMU NRC rating (3.78 of 5)
• 13th of 58 programs nationally (.224), 7th among
peer institutions
• Up from 3.7, 24th in 1982 NRC
• 10th in 1998 U.S. News & World Report rankings
• Produced 3 of last 5 Hispanic Ph.D.s nationally
• Recently received NCI R25 training grant - first at A&M
• Faculty serve on an average of 15 external graduate
advisory committees
PHYSICS
• 4 distinguished professors, 40 tenured/tenure-track;
80 majors, 110 graduate students
• 13th in undergraduate SCH, 17th in graduate SCH
• 7th in TAMU NRC ratings (3.22 of 5)
• 46th of 146 programs nationally (.315), 12th among
peer institutions
• Up from 2.71, 54th in 1982 NRC
• 17th in nuclear physics; 20th in particle physics in
1998 U.S. News & World Report rankings
• Among world leaders in several fields, including
quantum optics/computing for telecommunications
MATHEMATICS
• 5 distinguished professors, 68 tenured/tenure-track;
300 majors, 100 graduate students
• 1st in undergraduate SCH, 17th in graduate SCH
• TAMU NRC rating of 2.84 of 5
• 59th of 135 programs nationally (.437), last among
peers but up from being unranked in 1982 NRC
• 48th in 1998 U.S. News & World Report rankings
• Two-thirds of faculty have NSF grants, including
5-year, $5M VIGRE grant (1 of only 8 in nation) in 1999
• Extraordinary system of undergraduate review
sessions (Week in Review, etc.)
• Extraordinarily small class sizes relative to peers
BIOLOGY
• 1 distinguished professor, 34 tenured/tenure-track;
1,300 majors, 95 graduate students
• 8th in undergraduate SCH, 28th in graduate SCH
• NRC doesn’t rate Biology departments
• Very strong in molecular biology, with particular
emphasis on genomics, circadian rhythms
• Recently received first TAMU NIH program
project grant
CENTERS & INSTITUTES
• Cyclotron Institute, a DOE-supported university facility,
operates a K500 super-conducting cyclotron, one of
only four in the world
• NSF Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center for
Teaching and Learning, $10M, first of its kind nationally
• Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis:
umbrella for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Crystal and
Molecular Structure, Neutron Activation Analysis,
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Gene Technology,
Molecular Simulation, and Protein Chemistry Labs
• Institute for Quantum Studies
• Important members of faculties of genetics, nutrition,
neurosciences, materials science
TENURED/TENURE TRACK
FACULTY
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTAL
DP
1
6
5
4
2
18
Professor Associate Assistant Total
14
14
5
34
30
3
7
46
39
16
8
68
29
6
1
40
15
5
3
25
127
44
24
213
• Approximately 12% of TAMU total
• Al Cotton, Marlan Scully Nat’l Academy of Sciences members
• Down 7 since 1997, 17 since 1991
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS
~ FALL SEMESTER ~
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
BIOL
1,236
1,335
1,336
1,306
1,284
CHEM
177
179
181
203
183
MATH
278
282
298
296
306
PHYS
68
79
74
82
79
TOTAL
1,759
1,895
1,889
1,853
1,852
• Note overall increase
• PHYS close to creating engineering physics degree; new APMS
options; BIOL adding genomics/bioinformatics
• CHEM, MATH have federally-funded REUs; CHEM has capstone
research requirement; MATH has NSF VIGRE grant, etc.
• Development Council working on finding matching funds for
scholarships; LIFELINES Program
UNDERGRADUATE
SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS
FY97
FY98
FY99
FY00
FY01
BIOL
32,237
30,879
31,656
31,091
32,274
CHEM
43,301
39,355
42,445
41,929
41,167
• Bulge, FY99
• PHYS, STAT increasing
MATH
71,266
70,732
75,465
71,889
70,008
PHYS
22,792
21,586
25,264
26,918
26,466
STAT
11,524
11,619
12,013
12,736
13,899
TOTAL
181,118
174,171
186,843
184,563
183,814
GRADUATE MAJORS
~ FALL SEMESTER ~
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
BIOL
105
109
111
98
94
CHEM
234
220
235
227
236
MATH
92
100
108
112
105
PHYS
112
117
113
104
110
STAT
66
62
72
87
97
TOTAL
609
608
639
628
642
• Desperate state of underfunding; most areas $2-4K lower
stipends, plus $3-4K tuition and fees not waived
GRADUATE
SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS
FY97
FY98
FY99
FY00
FY01
BIOL
2,162
2,047
1,977
1,846
1,794
CHEM
5,843
5,154
4,974
5,222
5,121
MATH
3,238
3,230
3,183
3,291
3,262
PHYS
2,788
2,918
2,814
2,903
3,364
• Overall decrease matches TAMU trend
• Note service courses for STAT
STAT
4,839
4,526
4,132
4,205
4,499
TOTAL
18,870
17,875
17,080
17,467
17,040
FALL SCH, WSCH
PER FTE FACULTY
SCH/FTE
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
College
98
431.1
423.7
410.7
347.4
256.8
391.4
99
448.7
398.1
374.6
375.5
256.2
377.0
WSCH/FTE
00
464.3
401.5
377.6
331.4
283.8
377.7
98
1,024.9
1,081.3
536.4
878.5
765.7
803.2
99
00
1,059.9 1,128.9
1,032.1 1,046.8
486.5
498.1
865.4
742.4
770.2
868.9
772.3
784.4
• Tenured/tenure-track plus lecturers
WEIGHTS
Liberal Arts
Science
LD
1.00
1.53
UD
1.96
3.00
M
3.94
7.17
Ph.D.
12.04
19.29
FALL WSCH
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTALS
98
41.4
61.4
53.7
34.8
20.5
211.8
99
39.6
62.0
49.6
34.0
20.6
204.8
00
41.9
61.7
49.4
32.3
22.9
208.2
PCT
20.1
29.6
23.7
15.5
11.0
DOCTORATES AWARDED
IN LAST 10 YEARS
CHEM
ELEN
EPSY
MEEN
CVEN
SCSC
ANSC
EHRD
EDCI
CPSC
CHEN
INEN
EDAD
BIOL
WFSC
-
397
252
206
189
180
166
154
151
143
137
135
134
129
127
115
PSYC
PHYS
BCBP
AGEC
ENGL
ECON
OCNG
PETE
VTPB
ENTO
HLKN
VTPP
STAT
NUEN
MATH
- 113
- 113
- 102
- 93
- 89
- 88
- 85
- 81
- 73
- 72
- 71
- 69
- 66
- 65
- 64
RESEARCH FUNDING*
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
CYCL
TOTALS
FY97
4.078
10.397
2.749
4.643
0.887
0.422
23.175
FY98
3.228
6.907
1.307
5.231
0.485
2.243
19.400
FY99
4.155
9.308
1.983
3.998
0.584
4.698
24.730
FY00
5.070
9.758
3.556
6.451
1.000
2.890
28.725
* in millions
• Generated close to $2M per year in Indirect Cost Return
(40% of TAMU total)
TAMU NRC RANKINGS
TAMU rated in 25 of 41 areas
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Art History
0.00
Classics
0.00
Comp. Lit.
0.00
English
2.89
French
0.00
German
0.00
Linguistics
0.00
Music
0.00
Philosophy
0.00
Religion
0.00
Spanish
0.00
0 38
0 29
0 44
17 127
0 45
0 32
0 41
0 65
0 71
0 38
0 54
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochem/Molec Biol 2.95
Cell Biol
2.97
Ecol/Evol/Behav
2.61
Molec/Gen/Genetics 3.24
Neurosciences
0.00
Pharmacology
3.16
Physiology
2.32
14
13
20
7
0
11
23
ENGINEERING
Aerospace Eng
Biomedical Eng
Chemical Eng
Civil Eng
Electrical Eng
Industrial Eng
Materials Science
Mechanical Eng
12 33
21 38
16 93
4 86
6 126
2 37
0 62
9 110
3.12
2.50
2.91
3.40
3.25
3.81
0.00
3.22
0
0
0
56
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
187 68
165 62
127 76
102 38
98
0
121 60
135 106
17
34
37
17
32
5
0
27
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.441 16
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.000 0
0.364
0.376
0.598
0.373
0.000
0.496
0.785
10
12
22
11
0
18
24
0.515 19
0.895 25
0.398 14
0.198 3
0.254 6
0.135 2
0.000 0
0.245 5
PHYSICAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS
Astrophys/Astron
0.00
0 33
0
Chemistry
4.11
1 168 15
Computer Science
2.30 24 107 62
Geosciences
3.20 10 95 34
Mathematics
2.84 18 135 59
Oceanography
3.26
5 26 12
Physics
3.22
8 146 46
Stat/Biostat
3.78
3 58 13
0.000 0
0.089 0
0.579 21
0.358 9
0.437 15
0.462 17
0.315 8
0.224 4
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Anthropology
0.00
0 69
Economics
2.83 19 106
Geography
0.00
0 36
History
2.15 25 111
Political Science
0.00
0 97
Psychology
2.94 15 185
Sociology
2.47 22 95
0.000 0
0.311 7
0.000 0
0.784 23
0.000 0
0.384 12
0.526 20
0
33
0
87
0
71
50
KEY
• 1st col: NRC rating (0.00 means unrated)
• 2nd col: TAMU rank of this rating
• 3rd col: No. of universities rated in this area
• 4th col: National rank of TAMU in this area
• 5th col: Proportion of universities rated higher
than TAMU in this area
• 6th col: TAMU rank of this proportion
ROLES WE’RE PLAYING
• Basic science
• Interdisciplinary science
• Graduate and undergraduate majors
• Technology-Mediated Instruction, Distance
• Huge service teaching
• Confronting mathematics and science
teacher shortage
• Outreach and women’s programs
RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY
The Fundamental Keys to the Life Sciences
• Biological Clocks
• Inner Ear Development
• Molecular Motors in E. Coli
• Gene Silencing
RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY
The Fundamental Keys to the Life Sciences
The Department of Biology’s
mission is to provide high
quality education in biological
sciences to the students of
Texas A&M, to advance the
body of scientific knowledge
through scholarly research,
and to provide technical and
educational expertise locally,
nationally and internationally.
RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY
The Fundamental Keys to Matter
• Synthesis of Vitamin B12
• Discovery of Quadruple Bonds
• Nanocatalysts
• Instrumentation
RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY
The Fundamental Keys to Matter
The Department of Chemistry
is ranked ninth in the U.S. by
the National Research
Council and has the seventhranked inorganic program.
Other areas of expertise in
the Department include
analytical, biological, organic
and physical/nuclear
chemistry.
RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS
The Fundamental Language of Science
• Mathematical & Computational Biology
• Switches on Band Gaps
• Out-of-Classroom Instruction
RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS
The Fundamental Language of Science
Notices of the American Mathematical
Society is the premier newsletter of
the mathematical community. Its
editorship is a singular honor that
requires its holder to possess broad
knowledge of both mathematical
research and current events and
issues and, of course, superb writing
skills. In January 2001, Harold P.
Boas, professor of mathematics at
Texas A&M, began a three-year term
as Notices editor.
RESEARCH IN PHYSICS
The Fundamental Science of Relations of Matter and Energy
• Quantum Optics
• High Energy
• Condensed Matter
RESEARCH IN PHYSICS
The Fundamental Science of Relations of Matter and Energy
Through its numerous research
thrusts, the Department of Physics
provides broad educational
opportunities to students at all levels.
Its faculty members have many years
of interest, including atomic and
quantum optics, condensed matter
and high energy. The faculty in
nuclear physics are associated with
the Cyclotron Institute as well as other
nuclear programs around the world.
The faculty in high energy have
programs at FermiLab and other
national and international laboratories.
RESEARCH IN STATISTICS
The Fundamental Interdisciplinary Science
• Statistical Modeling
• Nutrition and Cancer
• Remediation of Groundwater
Contamination
• Distance Learning
• Chemometrics
RESEARCH IN STATISTICS
The Fundamental Interdisciplinary Science
The Texas A&M Department of Statistics, listed among the Top
10 in U.S. News & World Report rankings, is one of the largest
and most prestigious departments of its kind in the nation. As
such, it plays important teaching, research and service roles
within the University.
INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE
• Institute for Quantum Studies
• Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center
• Faculties of materials science, nutrition, toxicology,
genetics, neuroscience
• Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Nanotechnology
• Theoretical telecommunications
• Center for Environmental Rural Health
• Biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics NIH training grant
TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED
INSTRUCTION, DISTANCE
• Local and national leaders in TMI
• For several years mathematics and statistics
computer laboratories used in service classes
• Information Technology Working Group;
$70K laboratory and $50K of grants in FY01
• Larry Brown’s televised lecture course, CHEM 107
• Mike Speed’s TMI and distance versions of STAT
graduate courses
• James Hardin’s problem solving (applets, certificates)
• Desperately need better networking
• Capturing and streaming classes
SERVICE TEACHING LOADS
FY01 HEADCOUNTS: BIOL 10,398; CHEM 15,670; MATH 22,450
PHYS 7,557; STAT 6,153
Dept
Course
BIOL
113
123
114
124
FY01 Size
2,794
2,563
1,511
1,388
Sect.
Instruct.
Dept
300
Lab
300
Lab
Mostly TT
MATH
Mostly TT
8,256 (79.4%)
CHEM
101
102
227
107
237
228
238
691
2,697
1,897
1,595
1,529
1,349
1,275
1,017
578
224
224
100
288
Lab
100
Lab
L, TT
L, TT
TT
L, TT
141
142
151
152
166
308
251
4,196
2,444
2,097
1,711
1,621
1,484
1,364
100
100
100
100
65
55
70
131
150
311
302
365
366
FY01 Size
1,288
746
488
469
467
403
Sect.
Instruct.
100
55
50
40
50
40
L
L
TT
TT
TT
TT
18,768 (83.6%)
PHYS
L, TT
11,937 (76.2%)
MATH
Course
218
208
201
202
306
691
1,995
1,541
1,309
762
462
236
120
120
200
120
120
TT
TT
TT
TT
TT, L
6,305 (83.4%)
L
L
VAP, TT
VAP, TT
L
VAP, TT
VAP, TT
STAT
301-2-3 2,929
211
1,102
651
437
201
310
652
164
212
126
601
121
50-150
80-100
30-50
50-150
30-50
30-50
30-50
GAT, L
TT, VAP
TT
GAT, L
TT
TT, VAP
TT
5,189 (84.3%)
Instructional enhancement/equipment access fee has helped tremendously!
CONFRONTING QUALIFIED
M/S TEACHER SHORTAGE
• ITS Center, including searches for biology and
chemistry education tenured faculty
• Reinvigorated Center for Math and Science Education
to serve as umbrella organization
• Major players in TAMUS Regents’ Initiative
• Math and Science Scholars (MASS) Program
- Simplifies certification process for M&S majors
- Program recently received $300K Richardson grant
• 53 people reviewed middle school textbooks for TEA
• Masters of Natural Sciences (teacher oriented)
CONFRONTING QUALIFIED
M/S TEACHER SHORTAGE
• AP summer workshops in all five subjects
• Matched TxCETP grant for teacher prep course reform
• Gearing up for large NSF math education initiatives
• Supplying content and IT expertise to TEA Region IV
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
AND WOMEN’S PROGRAMS
• WISE Career and Professional Development
Conference: 100-150 women from around the state
at all levels of their professional careers hear invited
presentations from TAMU and other nationally
prominent female speakers
• Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture/Awards:
prominent TAMU female scientist invited to deliver
memorial lecture; awards presented to TAMU female
grad students/postdocs in research and mentoring
• Texas Junior Science & Humanities Symposium:
100 high school students from around the state
selected through nomination process for 3-day event
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
AND WOMEN’S PROGRAMS
• Texas A&M Regional Science Bowl: 32 teams of 5
high school students primarily from south, east and
central Texas
• Brazos Valley Regional Science & Engineering Fair:
200-plus middle and high school students from local
counties within the Brazos Valley as well as other
counties without regional fairs
• Expanding Your Horizons: 300 6th-7th grade girls,
mostly local and Houston area
• Junior Science Bowl: nine teams of 6th-8th grade
students from east, south and central Texas
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
AND WOMEN’S PROGRAMS
• Texas Science Olympiad: 50 teams of 15 middle
and high school students from across the state, plus
observers and teachers, for 2-day event
• Texas Junior Academy of Science: 100 high school
students from around the state for 2-day event
• NASA SHARP PLUS Program: 20 top caliber high
school students, predominantly minority, from across
the nation participate in this eight-week, on-campus
research-oriented program
CHALLENGES WE FACE
• The Three Rs:
Recruiting, Rewarding, Retaining faculty
• Attracting students
• Space - the final frontier
• Startup funds and equipment matching
• Research infrastructure
• Development efforts
RECRUITING, REWARDING
RETAINING FACULTY
SALARIES VS. PEERS
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTAL
Professor Associate Assistant
.87
.79
.92
.91
.98
.99
.89
.84
1.07
.91
.91
1.00
1.05
1.06
1.03
.91
.86
1.00
Total
.84
.92
.89
.91
1.05
.91
• Colorado State, Iowa State, MIT, N. Carolina State, Ohio State,
Purdue, Arizona, Illinois, Missouri
• Merit raises totaled 18% for FY98 - FY01
FACULTY LOSSES
SINCE SEPT 1997
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTAL
•
•
•
•
Assistant
0
1
3
0
0
4
Associate
2
0
1
0
2
5
Full Prof
2
2
1
1
1
7
DP
0
0
0
1
0
1
Total
4
3
5
2
3
17
Does not include tenure decisions, retirements, resignations
4 females
Money, partner placement, B/CS, lack of infrastructure
Successfully countered at least 10 more, some of which were
hugely expensive
BASIC PROBLEMS
• Very little new money since 1985
• Very small raises over 10-year period
• Retention, “proactive retention,” and
occasional “equity” raises force us either
to replace tenured/tenure track faculty with
temporary faculty or to stop teaching lower
division courses
RECRUITING, REWARDING,
RETAINING GRAD STUDENTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
Desperately underfunded
Our stipends are $2-4K lower than main competition
Most competitors waive tuition and fees ($4,500/yr.)
Bryan/College Station
In some areas, programs/faculty make the difference
FY01 spent $200K on five $8K “signing bonuses” in
each department
• Spend graduate enhancement fees almost entirely
on stipends and/or tuition remission
• $105K from “Next Steps”
• Lack of faculty money puts more pressure on TAs
SPACE - The Final Frontier
Biology:
• Old buildings; desperate need for
renovation money
• Location of life sciences building
(“complex”) crucial to future
Chemistry:
• Laboratory space
Math:
• Dept. split between Milner, Blocker
• Classrooms all over campus
• Inadequately sized classrooms
Physics:
• Laboratory space
• No expansion room
Statistics:
• Training grant; large increase in grads
STARTUP FUNDS AND
EQUIPMENT MATCHING
• A new faculty member who is an experimentalist in
lab sciences (almost all in BIOL, CHEM; most in
PHYS) requires at least $300K (typical assistant prof.)
and as much as $1-2M (full/chair holder) in startup
funds (equipment, lab renovations, research staff)
• Even MATH scientists warrant $15-25K
• Almost all federal equipment grants require 25-35%
match from TAMU; College has spent approximately
$1M per year on average to provide such matching
• Life science task force is helping
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
• Lab sciences very equipment-driven
• College very successful at getting large
equipment from local, state and federal funds
and charging user fees to cover expendables
• Problems:
1. Funding for technicians
2. Space
3. Deciding which labs get central support
4. Many more such labs likely in future
• Research infrastructure oversight committee
DEVELOPMENT
• Notoriously difficult to raise large amounts of money
from science alumni
• Active but small External Advisory & Development
Council
• Finally have our own full-time development officer
who has some science background
• 8 Bright/AUF matches primarily for industry/foundation
• Seeking $200K in scholarship matching funds
• LIFELINES Program seeks 1,000 health care alumni
willing to contribute $1K each for pre-med, pre-dent
scholarships
DIVERSITY
FEMALE T/TT, 9/01
Assistant
BIOL
1/5
CHEM
1/7
MATH
2/8
PHYS
0/1
STAT
3/3
TOTAL
7/24
Associate Full Prof. Total
4/14
2/15
7/34
1/3
2/36
4/46
1/16
1/44
4/68
0/6
1/33
1/40
0/5
1/17
4/27
6/44
7/145
20/213
MINORITY T/TT, 9/01
Assistant
BIOL
1
CHEM
0
MATH
2
PHYS
0
STAT
0
TOTAL
3
Associate Full Prof.
0
0
1
1
2
1
0
0
0
0
3
2
Total
1
2
5
0
0
8
HATE TO WHINE, BUT...
Ph.D.s, 1990/1999
Hispanic
PR
MexAm
AfrAm
Totals
BIOL
89/164
24/39
22/41
51/116
3,380/4,118
CHEM
57/42
20/15
11/9
24/56
1,497/1,400
NOTE: STAT included with MATH
MATH
10/15
2/2
3/7
4/12
422/605
PHYS
13/15
3/3
0/7
5/8
725/735
HATE TO WHINE, BUT...
Approximate Number of Ph.D.s Per Year
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTAL
AfrAm
100
50
10
8
<5
173
Hispanic
300
100
30
30
<5
465
Female
2,400
600
275
160
50
3,485
Total
2,800
750
315
198
50
4,113
• Hopwood effect
• TAMU’s location not attractive to a variety of people; not just
underrepresented groups
THE GOOD NEWS
• A number of surveys place our depts. at or
near the top nationally in production of
minority doctorates
• Members of college have won 3 individual
diversity awards, while 3 of our 5 depts.
have won awards
• Karan Watson and I are co-PIs on a $1M
NSF gender equity grant
• A number of our Outreach activities have
minority components (NASA SHARP PLUS)
VISION 2020: OUR IMPACT
• Imperative 1: Elevate our faculty and their
teaching, research and scholarship
• Imperative 2: Strengthen our graduate
program
• Imperative 3: Enhance the undergraduate
academic experience
• Imperative 4: Build the Letters, Arts &
Sciences core
VISION 2020: OUR IMPACT
• Imperative 5: Build on the tradition of
professional education
• Imperative 6: Diversify and globalize the
A&M community
• Imperative 7: Increase access to knowledge
sources
• Imperative 8: Enrich our campus
VISION 2020: OUR IMPACT
• Imperative 9: Build community and
metropolitan connections
• Imperative 10: Demand enlightened
governance and leadership
• Imperative 11: Attain resource parity with
the best public universities
• Imperative 12: Meet our commitment
to Texas
A LITTLE BRAGGING
• Next Steps
8 of 32 new faculty, 11 of 43 grad students,
6 of 25 Faculty Fellows, 3 chairs, good share of task
force funds
• Young faculty
CAREER awards (Cremer, Gabbai, Vannucci,
Romo); Sloans (Yan, Dobson, Romo, Sulikowski)
• Just in last week:
1. Ray Carroll named winner of R.A. Fisher Award by
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
2. Cyclotron’s EPA funding renewed
3. Dimitri Nanopolous named 4th most cited high
energy physicist of all time in study by Stanford
GOALS
1. Maintain and grow strong basic science
while playing important roles in
collaborative research projects
2. Return tenure-track faculty to full strength
without compromising service teaching
effectiveness
3. Increase number, quality of graduate and
undergraduate students
4. Increase number of female, minority faculty
GOALS
5. Continue to find creative ways to address
shortage of math and science teachers
6. Provide tools and training for faculty
wanting to use technology-mediated
instruction
7. Continue to grow development activities