2001 Progress Report
Recruitment & Retention of Students | Undergraduate Experience | Graduate Experience | Academic Programs & Faculty | Connection to the Greater Community | Infrastructure/Support Improvements
Graduate Experience & Research
Research & Graduate Programs Infrastructure
Similar to 2000, Georgia State is on the list of the top 200 research
universities compiled by the Center at the University of Florida.
To be listed among the top 100 [150] universities in the 2001
publication, we would have needed over $50 [20] million in federal
research expenditures or over $100 [46] million in total research
expenditures. Our research expenditures were $14.3M and $36.5M,
respectively. We are on the list of the top 100 public universities
in two indicators: doctoral degrees awarded and postdoctoral appointees.
We are on the list of the top 200 public and private universities
in five of the ten indicators.
Publicized rankings demonstrated progress in establishing Georgia
State as a nationally recognized institution. Economics was ranked
5th nationally by NSF in federal research expenditures, psychology
9th, sociology 20th, political science 45th and the social sciences
21st. The College of Arts and Sciences ranked 48th similar units
in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, with the Biology
department being 28th among its peer departments.
According to an article in Chemical and Engineering News (2001)
(in the latest NSF data available), the chemistry department was
ranked 2nd nationally in the number of African?American Ph.D.
graduates in Chemistry.
The Ph.D. program in English was ranked in the top quartile nationally
in terms of student satisfaction in a survey funded by the Sloane
Foundation.
Georgia State strengthened its position as a rising institution
of excellence in science and health-related fields. The Georgia
Research Alliance funded the Infectious Disease Cluster and the
Functional Genomics Cluster, as well as improvements in biotechnology
core facilities. The Gates Foundation funded development of new
drugs to treat African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis, diseases
infecting or killing millions of people worldwide.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Chemistry department
to organize workshops to improve scientific education at two-
and four-year colleges across the country. The National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders funded Communication
faculty to study augmented language intervention for toddlers.
Georgia State celebrated the dedication of its Center for High
Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array of telescopes at Mount
Wilson in California, capable of resolving details equivalent
to the size of a nickel seen from a distance of 10,000 miles,
and arguably the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world.
Georgia Research Alliance and Beckman Instruments funding culminated
in the dedication of the CollabTech Biotechnology Development
Center housing four start-up companies. NSF and Lucent Technologies
funding supported the creation of the Regional Laser Ablation
Mass Spectrometry facility for research in geochemistry, biogeochemistry,
environmental sciences, biotechnology, and material sciences.
A Public Health Institute, a university wide initiative, was established
in October 2001 and will provide a platform for enhanced public
health research and policy.
Overall grant activity is captured in Tables 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 that
list research indicators, grants received by college, internal
grant support, federal obligations, and grant proposals submitted/funded
by college.
Research & Graduate Programs Infrastructure
Emphasis has been placed on development of programs and systems
that are needed to facilitate grant application and administration
and to ensure compliance with federal regulations regarding administration
of grants and contracts. A proposal to renegotiate the indirect
cost rate with DHSS is being developed. The internal grants programs
are being evaluated for effectiveness.
Graduate Indicators
Graduate process indicators related to percent of hours taught
by tenure track and full-time faculty are given in Table 14.
Graduate degrees awarded and pass rates on the law bar examination
are some graduate output indicators given in Table 15.
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