NCSU Research Retreat PAMS Research Agenda February 4, 2005 Ray Fornes

PAMS Research Agenda Departments Chemistry Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Mathematics Physics Statistics* *Split with CALS about 85% of State Budget in PAMS

PAMS Research Agenda Currently 187 Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty (Including 7 Administrators with assignments outside home departments and all of Statistics Faculty) PAMS has about 12 % of university total faculty.

Teaching & Education Contributions* PAMS Teaches about 23% of all Credit Hours PAMS’ is second only to COM in teaching load per faculty PAMS has 835 Undergraduate Majors (+144 double) PAMS has 685 Graduate Students (about 11% of total) PAMS has481 Doctoral Students (about 20% of total) *Fall 2004 data

Graduate Student Growth Trends* SummaryTotalMSDoctoral University %Change17.0%12.2%25.9% PAMS %Change18.9%-13.0%45.8% *Comparing enrollments of F1998 & F2004 data, majors only; excludes LLE and DVM

% PAMS Faculty with Funding (FY ) Chemistry20/31 funded = 64.5% MEAS33/35 funding = 94% Math:32/60 funded = 53.3% Physics32/36 funded = 88.9% Statistics:19/31 funded = 61.3 % Total:137/191 funded = 71.7%

Funding Trends Total New Awards by PAMS Departments in FY DepartmentAmount# Awards Chemistry: $5,307,91660 MEAS:$6,185,64381 Mathematics: $3,058,45549 Physics: $7,874,90288 Statistics (PAMS): $3,038,71067 PAMS Total $25,465, Statistics (CALS): $2,085,99513 (University Totals = $213M, Sum of College Totals = $167M)

Funding Trends Total New Awards by PAMS Departments in FY (Through 1/30/05) DepartmentAmount# Awards Chemistry: $4,702,73123 MEAS:$5,336,81160 Mathematics: $3,308,00230 Physics: $5,527,68353 Statistics (PAMS): $2,685,11633 PAMS Total $21,620, Statistics (CALS): $1,303,777 3 (University Totals = $121M, Sum of College Totals = $108M)

Funding Trends Total New Awards in PAMS/University (Millions) Year PAMS College Totals % PAMS % % % % (1/30/05) %

Funding Trends Funding Characteristics in PAMS About 85 % Federal (Compared to about 60% across NCSU) PAMS Generates over 18% of NCSU’s F&A* *(FY Data)

PAMS Strategy Identify& Develop Important Science Areas Build on strength materials sciences; Interface between phys/bio; High performance computing; Nuclear Physics; Innovation in Education Research and Teaching

PAMS Strategy Identify & Develop Important Science Areas (Cont.) Bioinformatics Broad Applications of Statistical Sciences Weather/regional climate modeling and monitoring Marines and Ocean Sciences Applied & financial mathematics Encourage cross-disciplinary and collaborative research

PAMS Strategy Compete for the best faculty candidates  Attempt to Make Teaching Load Competitive  Provide Competitive Start-ups  Emphasis on Diversity Take Risks in Renting/Renovating Spaces Aggressive growth of Graduate Students Openness to opportunity

PAMS-Major Challenges Severe Budgetary Constraints/Deficit Severe Space Shortage/Extraordinary Rental Costs Non-Competitive Teaching Load of Departments National Science and Engineering Enrollment Trends Federal Deficit Issues/Impact on Science Funding