1. Research Highlights (October-December 2011)
Board of Trustees
Academic Affairs Committee
Dr. Celestine A. Ntuen
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
February 17, 2012

2. Sponsored Funding: By unit July-December total: $28,115,630

3. Sponsored Funding: By funder type July-December total: $28,115,630

4. Sponsored Funding: By category July-December total: $28,115,630

5. Economic Development Agreements Signed, July-December 2011
Nondisclosure Agreements: 10
5 in comparable FY2011 period
Teaming Agreements: 4
3 in comparable FY2011 period
Memoranda of Understanding: 2
1 in comparable FY2011 period

6. Research Highlights July-December 2011
Engineering Research Center received $4 million in FY 2012 funding (Year 4 of project); NSF expressed expectation that funding will continue through at least Year 8.
Dr. Abolghasem Shahbazi, Natural Resources-Environmental Design, School of Agriculture, received DOE federal appropriation award for $750,000 for three years.
DORED wrote and submitted proposal to N.C. Department of Commerce, Energy R&D Cost Sharing Program, and received award for $187,500 for Dr. Shahbazi’s cost share for DOE award.

7. Research Highlights July-December 2011
University currently has 15 post-doctoral students

8. Economic Development Commercial Agreements, July-December 2011
Total = 17 (vs. 8 in comparable FY2011 period)
Defense = 6 (vs. 3)
Energy = 5 (vs. 1)
Bioengineering = 3 (vs. 0)
Small Business = 2 (vs. 2)
IT = 1 (vs. 1)
Agriculture = 0 (vs. 1)

9. Economic Development Intellectual Property, July-December 2011
New idea submissions: 15 (vs. 2 in comparable FY2011 period)
School of Agriculture: 8 (vs. 1)
Processing of food products, cancer therapeutic, micropropagation, educational programs, lab device, food supplement
School of Technology: 3
Structural members, airplane tool, personal product
College of Engineering: 2 (vs. 1)
Therapeutic device, classification system
College Arts & Science: 1
Media analysis
JSNN: 1
Nerve stimulation

10. Research Communications Selected News Releases, July-December 2011
NSF awards N.C. A&T $4 million for ERC
ERC receives $200,000 SBIR grant
JSNN faculty members receive $3.5 million in research funding
Bililign receives presidential mentoring award
A&T students attend MIT graduate school workshop
2 DORED interns selected for national leadership programs

11. Research Communications New External and Internal Brochures