Strategic Academic Planning Committee
The Strategic Academic Planning Committee (SAPC) guided the University in investing significant new funding to enhance its research excellence, the goal being to supplement strategic plans and processes already in place at the department, center, institute, and school/college levels. Part of the initiative's emphasis was on transinstitutional research projects involving faculty from different disciplines, departments, and schools/colleges.
In the course of two rounds of funding, the SAPC awarded approximately $80 million to Strategic Research Investments proposed by Notre Dame faculty.
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee I (2007–2008)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee II (2008–2009)
Strategic Academic Planning Committee I (2007–2008)
- Formation of the Strategic Academic Planning Committee (February 2007) (251 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Update (April 2007) (168 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Call for Proposals (May 2007) (76.7 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Reminder (email, October 2007) (19.3 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Deadline (email, October 2007) (12.6 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Announcement of Phase II Proposals (November 2007) (20.8 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Call for Committee Nominations (December 2007) (203 kb PDF)
- Strategic Academic Planning Committee: Final Funding Decisions (April 2008) (32 kb PDF)
| PI | Title |
|---|---|
| Paul Bohn | Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics—Molecules to Nanostructures to Cells and Beyond (50.5 kb PDF) |
| Frank Collins & Jeffrey Schorey | Genomics, Disease Ecology, and Global Health (25.4 kb PDF) |
| Wolfgang Porod | NDnano - The Notre Dame Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (28.8 kb PDF) |
| Mark Roche | The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (24.3 kb PDF) |
| Bradley Smith | Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (23.9 kb PDF) |
Strategic Academic Planning Committee II (2008–2009)
- Members (7.5 kb PDF)
- Call for Proposals: Phase 1 (104 kb PDF)
- Presentation from SAPC II Open Sessions (75.2 kb PDF)
- Phase 1 Results Letter (17.9 kb PDF)
- Call for Proposals: Phase 2 (122 kb PDF)
- Phase 2 Results Letter (22.4 kb PDF)
The SAPC recommended funding two of the full grant proposals and four of the seed grant proposals, with some modifications to the proposed budgets. The principal investigators, titles, and abstracts of these proposals are available in the following table.
| PI | Type of Proposal | Title |
|---|---|---|
|
Joan Brennecke |
Full |
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David Lodge |
Full |
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Malcolm Fraser |
Seed |
Developing Group I Intron Antiviral Strategies for Treating HIV and HCV Infections (101 kb PDF) |
|
Greg Hartland |
Seed |
A Focused Interdisciplinary Research Group in Nanostructured Solar Cells (140 kb PDF) |
|
Paul Huber |
Seed |
Assessment of the Impact of Nanoparticles on Human Health and the Environment |
|
Tracy Kijewski-Correa |
Seed |
The SAPC also recommended funding select components of the other proposals in order to allow aspects of these projects to move forward and subsequently to compete for additional funding from other sources. The principal investigators, titles, and abstracts of these proposals are available in the following table.
| PI | Type of Proposal | Title |
|---|---|---|
|
R. Scott Appleby |
Full |
Contending With Modernity: Islam and Roman Catholicism in a Secular Age (94.1 kb PDF) |
|
Thomas Corke |
Full |
Laboratory for Enhanced Wind Energy Design - eWind (38.3 kb PDF) |
|
Kasturi Haldar |
Full |
The Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases: Fighting Severe Disease (134 kb PDF) |
|
Jessica Hellmann |
Seed |
Notre Dame Collaboratory for the Study of Adaptation to Climate Change (169 kb PDF) |