Ohio University needs to develop research projects that involve faculty from multiple disciplines to increase its graduate funding, said the final candidate for vice president for Research and Creative Activity and dean of the Graduate College in an open forum yesterday.
Rathindra Bose is the vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University. Specializing in cancer research, Bose was also a chair of chemistry at Kent State University.
To become more competitive in research, the university should find something at which it excels and work with other institutions to gain research funding in this area, Bose said. He added that seven of the ten criteria used to measure the nation's top institutions are connected to research.
All the universities in the world are here to create new knowledge
Bose said. If we do not discover anything new today there will be nothing to teach students tomorrow.
His specific goals for research include increasing funding by ten percent annually and submitting ten new multidisciplinary research proposals within his first two years at OU.
The vice president for Research and Creative Activity will be instrumental in developing the university's new Graduate College in addition to maintaining existing graduate programs. Executive Vice President and Provost Kathy Krendl announced the creation of the Graduate College in September; it is expected to be operational by Fall Quarter 2008.
The new position replaces the former vice president for Research position, held by James Rankin.
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