News from the Office of Research Development
The GrAnteater
Issue 25 • Summer 2008
Staying in Contact: A Familiar Face on the Research Development Team
If you haven’t met or at least seen Goran at a university/corporate event, you may want to get out more. Director of Research Development for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Goran Matijasevic (pronounced Ma-tee-yash-evich) is so ubiquitous, one might suspect that he has been cloned. Goran, however, is one of a kind. A UCI Ph.D. graduate, an entrepreneurial engineer in private industry for nine years, and now a UCI staff member, Goran pursues a brand of research development that is distinctly synthetic. Bringing together people, resources, and information, Goran has a mission to support formation of new industryuniversity and academic collaborations, especially new interdisciplinary research. Assuming his new position in the Dean’s Office in 2006, Goran previously served for four years as Research Coordinator for the UCI Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF), an 8,600-square-foot clean room research fabrication facility devoted to integrating micro and nano-systems, perhaps best exemplified by the phrase "lab on a chip." Operating at the interface of the university and the private sector draws on Goran’s seemingly innate gregariousness, combined with a technical grasp of engineering and an appreciation of industrial reality. Continue...
Winning a Guggenheim Award
This year, three UCI professors received Guggenheim Fellowships, a rare distinction for the campus. Edward Fowler, professor and chair of East Asian Languages and Literature; Simon Leung, associate professor of Studio Art; and Ruben Ochoa, adjunct professor of Studio Art (and a recent graduate in its MFA program), are among the 190 scholars and artists selected from more than 2,600 applicants across the United States and Canada. Continue...
UCI Acupuncture Proposal Earns NIH Score of 120
An extraordinary score of 120 was awarded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to a UCI proposal. Titled “Neural Substrates of Electro-Acupuncture in Cardiovascular Control,” the competitive renewal RO1 was submitted by John Longhurst, UCI Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, and Director of the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine. Continue...
UCI Leads the Nation in GAANN Awards
UCI currently has eight active Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) awards, representing a total of $8.79 million supporting 32 three-year graduate fellowships in six UCI departments. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), GAANN awards have played a role at UCI graduate education for decades, and with three GAANN Awards in the last round of competition, UCI active awards climbed to eight, the most in the nation. The University of Missouri, Columbia, has six awards. Continue...
Feds Support Security-Related Social Science Research
The federal government will support academic social and behavioral science research through two new programs. Launched in June, the Department of Defense (DOD)'s Minerva Initiative has committed $50 million to support research intended to advance national security policy and defense-related interests. In addition, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the DOD and the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced July 2, will enable the DOD to support selected research submitted through NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE). Continue...
A Beacon for Grantwriters
Faculty researchers may find the road toward finding grant support long and winding, with obstacles and the occasional wrong turn that can delay the achievement of the goal. However, weary grantseekers won’t have to travel that road alone. The Office of Research Development (ORD) can light the way toward finding and applying for external funding. Continue...
