10 Year Review - The University of Akron

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ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS The University of Akron 2001- present • Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School (Chief Research Officer), 2001-present). Overall responsibility for the university's research programs and services, Graduate School, technology transfer, and economic development initiatives. Increased line item for new faculty start-up funds from $1.75M/year to $3.75M. As a result, external research award funding during tenure at UA has grown from $18M (2000) to $48.3M (2009). In 2001, established the University of Akron Research Foundation (UARF), a not-for-profit organization that enables UA faculty to expand into the free enterprise environment, creates a healthy industry/university framework, and establishes a university hub for knowledge management within the community. Recognition of UA/UARF efforts in technology commercialization effectiveness has come from the National Science Foundation, The Milken Institute, the Association for University Technology Managers, the University Economic Development Association, the Ohio Board of Regents, and the Third Frontier Commission. • President and CEO; Member, Board of Directors; University of Akron Research Foundation (UARF), 2001-present. UARF promotes, encourages the research activities of and provides assistance to University faculty, staff and students to enhance economic development and hold equity positions in the corporate world on behalf of UA: $14M holdings after 9 years. In the past 8 years, UARF has spun-out 23 companies based on University-related technologies and 41 companies within the community. In the past 12 months, UARF has assisted more than 460 regional companies and entrepreneurs with business, technical and innovation assistance. Established Akron Regional Change Angels (ARCHAngels), an investment network that presents leading-edge technologies from Northeast Ohio startup companies and the University to a network of 550 investors and business leaders. • Institutional Official (IO), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), 2008-present. Upgraded the biology animal labs to establish The University of Akron Research Vivarium, which houses the laboratory animal collection to meet the community's needs. Organized the Vivarium under the umbrella of the Vice President for Research, opening usage campus-wide and allowing maintenance of the highest standards of research as well as security. • Interim Dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, 2007. Appointed by the University President to serve during the time between the retirement of the founding dean and the successful international search for a successor. The UA College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is recognized as one of the world‟s finest programs and is the largest and most technically diverse in the United States. Its complementary Institute of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, one of the premiere research and technology development programs, has transformed greater Akron from the leading tire and rubber manufacturing region to the leading advanced polymeric materials region, with applications in medicine, communications, housing, and transportation. • President & CEO, Akron Innovation Campus (AIC), 2007-present. AIC is part of the outreach and emerging enterprise support efforts of UARF. The mixed-use buildings (currently includes 2 buildings of ca. 70,000 sq. ft.) fill a long-standing need for office space close to UA‟s main campus for UA spinout technology companies, industry research partners and other innovative enterprises. • President & CEO, Ohio Research Foundation, 2007-present. With state-wide collaborations and partnerships already in place, the Ohio Research Foundation provides services for other state-funded universities, major healthcare providers and Fortune 1000 companies, using the proven economic development successes of UARF as a template. • Chairman of the Board, The Akron Research Foundation, 2009-present. With a focus on wealth creation benefitting Akron regional business interests and community development, the Akron Research Foundation provides financial, investment and business advice and services as well as a home for investment HONORS AND AWARDS Distinguished Award of Council, Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies (ACESS), 2006 Crain's "Cleveland's Who's Who in Technology,” 2002, 2003, 2004 41
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member, Editorial Board, Polymers, 2009-2011. Member, Editorial Board, SRX Chemistry, 2010- Member, Board of Directors, The Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology, 2008- Member, Advisory Board, The BioInnovation Institute of Akron, 2008- Member, Board of Directors, Akron Device Technologies LLC, 2008- Consultant, Albemarle Corp., 2007- Member, City of Akron's Biocorridor Advisory Commission, 2007- Member, Board of Directors, MemPro Ceramics Corp, 2006- Member, Editorial Board, Molecular and Supramolecular Materials, 2006- Consultant, Steris Corporation, 2005- Member, Nanopolis Scientific Advisory Board, 2006- Member, City of Akron Innovation Committee, 2005- Member, Science Advisory Board, Avidimer Therapeutics, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005- Member, Advisory Board, Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials & Devices, A Third Frontier Wright Center of Innovation, 2005- Member, Board of Trustees, Jump Start Inc., 2004-2009 Member, Battelle Steering Committee, 2005-2007 Member, State of Ohio 3 rd Frontier Advanced Materials Core Team, 2003- Member, Advisory Board, Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies, 2003- Member, Advisory Committee, NorTech, Inc., 2002- Member, Science Advisory Board, UTEK Corp, 1999-2001; 2005-2010; Innovaro, 2010- Member, Oversight Committee, Ohio Aerospace Council, 2003-2006 Member, Steering Committee, National Polymer Processing Center, 2002-2009 Academic Committee, Masters of Public Health, Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, 2001- Member, Foundation Board, St. Vincent – St. Mary High School, 2001- Board of Trustees, Polymer Ohio, Inc., 2001-2008 (Technology Committee, 2002-2008) Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001- International Advisory Board, Crystal Workshops on Chemistry Devoted to Supramolecular Chemistry, 2001- Member, International Science Advisory Board, Global Supramolecular Chemistry Network, 1999- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, 2002- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Ohio Academy of Sciences, 2001- Associate Editor, Molecular Engineering – Supramolecular Science & Technology Reviews, 2000- Member, Editorial Board, ARKIVOC: An Electronic Journal, 1999- Member, Advisory Board, Designed Monomers and Polymers: An International Journal in Monomers and Macromolecular Syntheses, 1997- Founder and Science Advisor, Molecular Building Blocks, Inc., 1998-2006 Delegate, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges' Commission on Outreach and Technology Transfer, 1992- 42
Page 1 and 2: TEN YEAR REVIEW 2001-2010 Dr. Georg
Page 3 and 4: Appendix 1 Dr. George R. Newkome Ac
Page 5 and 6: Office of the Vice President for Re
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTION TO THE UA GRADUATE SCH
Page 9 and 10: Enrollment Not surprisingly, along
Page 11 and 12: Degrees Awarded Awarded graduate de
Page 13 and 14: GRADUATE SCHOOL INITIATIVES The com
Page 15 and 16: THE FUTURE OF THE UA GRADUATE SCHOO
Page 17 and 18: INTRODUCTION TO THE ORSSP The Offic
Page 19 and 20: OHIO RESEARCH AWARD DOLLARS *Source
Page 21 and 22: RESEARCH FACULTY *Source: The Unive
Page 23 and 24: AWARD DOLLARS Total Award Dollars b
Page 25 and 26: A DECADE IN TRANSITION At the turn
Page 27 and 28: silos among University departments,
Page 29 and 30: eimbursed, 40% goes to the inventor
Page 31 and 32: permitted and provided for the expa
Page 33 and 34: OTT & UARF ACTIVITIES We have been
Page 35 and 36: AUTM Active Licenses 45 40 35 30 33
Page 37 and 38: $7,000,000 License Revenue $6,000,0
Page 39 and 40: $6,000,000 UARF Net Assets $5,000,0
Page 41: Appendix 1 Academic Curriculum Vita
Page 45 and 46: Bipyridines: Synthesis, Complexatio
Page 47 and 48: 37. Hassan, M. L.; Moorefield, Kott
Page 49 and 50: 79. Zhang, W.-B.; Tu, Y.; Ranjan, R
Page 51 and 52: 3. Invited Speaker, "Nanomeric Cons
Page 53 and 54: MEETINGS 1. Newkome, G. R.; Mishra,
Page 55 and 56: GRANTS Itemized Research Grants 1.
Page 57 and 58: Visiting 1. Ms. Francesca Cardullo
Page 59 and 60: Medicine. 11:145-161. Mark Tausig,
Page 61 and 62: Amod Pyakuryal, Mark Tausig, Sree S
Page 63 and 64: EDUCATION and ACTIVITIES 1963 Juris
Page 65 and 66: Entrepreneurial Studies Fellow Coll
Page 67 and 68: companies to access on an as needed
Page 69 and 70: Developed technology transfer polic
Page 71 and 72: Intellectual Property Management,
Page 73 and 74: Appendix 3 Graduate Headcount-Fall
Page 75 and 76: UA Graduate Headcount-Ethnicity by
Page 77 and 78: Headcount-Ethnicity Continued Maste
Page 79 and 80: Headcount-STEM/Non STEM Continued D

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