1 Supplemental line if need be (example: Supported by the National Science Foundation) Delete if not needed. Grand Challenges Discussion 7 Oct 2015 Craig Stewart ORCID ID Executive Director, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute Associate Dean, Research Technologies

2 Outline and Goals Overview of Grand Challenges plans and concepts Definition of Grand Challenges and Emerging Priorities at IUB Our role in Grand Challenges, including notes from draft 2015 Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce report

3 Grand Challenges Why is one 8-figure grant award better than 10 7-figure awards? Grand Challenges: Problems whose scope spans institutional and disciplinary boundaries and whose solutions require new knowledge, new tools, and new treatments. At IU and IUB we are harnessing strengths in every field to identify and address big questions whose answers lie beyond the frontiers of current knowledge. A key priority in the IU Bicentennial Strategic Plan. Most significant investment in IU’s research infrastructure in the university’s history. Will fund up to five Grand Challenge initiatives and support hiring up to175 new faculty and hundreds of new graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Led by VP for Research.

4 Criteria for challenges and RT role Project key criteria: – Is it a Grand Challenge? – Value to State of Indiana – Time commitment – Deanly commitment Leader key criteria: – Tenure-track faculty member – History of success PTI role – For all affiliated centers other than D2I and DSC, the role of PTI and RT is to provide best possible support for all Grand Challenge efforts with equal enthusiasm, given a match between our resources and strengths and project needs. – CRT recommendations will help here. First deadline: 9 November.

5 Preface to list of Grand Challenges and POC assignments List at Next slide details assignments. Boilerplate for follows. Next slide shows initials for the following: – Doak – TD – Gniady - TG – Marru - SurM – Meraz - RM – Michael - SAM – Stewart – CAS – Jennet Tillotson - JT – Welch – VW PLEASE OPEN AN RT TICKET FOR EACH OF THE ABOVE, AND EDIT NEXT SLIDE TO INCLUDE TICKET NUMBER.

6 TitleLeadPOC?Ticket # An IU Bloomington Center on Global AgingP. StaffordRM Antibiotic-resistant bacteriaM.E. Winkler, C. KaoTD Cyberspace security, trust, resilience, and governance for HoosiersD. DelaneyVW Cyber Peace: An applied, interdisciplinary program to enhance critical infrastructure cybersecurity in Indiana and beyond S. ShackelfordVW Engineering language resources and technologiesD. CavarTG Exascale computing systems, methodologies, and application programmingA. Lumsdaine, T. Sterling CAS Human well-being: addressing the challenge of modernityP.K. Kubow, L.B. LiuRM Humans, animals, and pathogens move across the landscape: health and conservation in a changing climate E. Ketterson, R. Fischman CAS Language in the 21st centuryL. MossTG, JT Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the development and expression of social behavior G. DemasSAM Networks and human health (might be rolled into health equity)B. PescosolidoCAS Promoting health equity in IndianaM. ReeceRM, CAS Sustainability and resilience/Integrated Program in the EnvironmentJ. WhiteSurM, CS Transforming biomedicine through virtual tissuesJ. GlazierRH Transforming environmental health protection for Indiana and beyondJ. ShawTD145573

7 template for contacting Grand Challenge leaders Dear ###___, I understand you are leading a Grand Challenge project. The Research Technologies Division of UITS and Pervasive Technology Institute are offering to assist each Grand Challenge project group in whatever ways we can. We provide an array of IT services and resources that may be relevant to your project. In general, we do not expect to be written into budgets unless a project requires considerable dedicated programmer effort. I would be happy talk with you about ways that research information technology could support your project. We would begin by discussing your project. From this discussion we would get a sense of the research services and resources that could benefit you the most. Please let us know how we can be of service to you.

8 Emerging Areas of Research Not everything is a Grand Challenge. Emerging areas of research are key areas of current or growing research strength on the IU Bloomington campus in which we can become a national and/or international leader. Beginning in 2016, the Bloomington campus will identify up to six promising areas of research in which IUB faculty are equipped to conduct most, if not all, aspects of the research. IUB is the only campus currently involved in emerging areas of research.

9 What the goals are and are not Grand Challenges are a means of transforming IU research. They are NOT sources of internal funding in lieu of competing for federal funding (and lessons learned from Lilly grants). They involve major initiatives that combine intellectual talents, approach big problems, and reap major, practical results. RT and funding and Grand Challenges – In general we do not need to be written into Grand Challenges budgets unless full-time, dedicated programmers are needed. – Contact Stewart before requesting budget money.

10 License Terms Please cite as Stewart, C.A IUPTI Seminar: Grand Challenges Discussion. Indiana University. 7 October Except where otherwise noted, by inclusion of a source url or some other note, the contents of this presentation are © by the Trustees of Indiana University. This content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license ( This license includes the following terms: You are free to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work and to remix – to adapt the work under the following conditions: attribution – you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Jetstream is supported by NSF award (Craig Stewart, PI) XSEDE is supported by NSF award (John Towns, UIUC, PI) This work was also supported by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, which was initiated with major funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF) or other supporting organizations.