Program Information

8:45 am–9:00 am
Introduction

9:00 am–10:15 am
William B. Deal, Dean of the School of Medicine at UAB
“Development and Implementation of the SOM Strategic Plan”

10:15 am–10:30 am
Break

10:30 am–11:55 am
Recruiting for UGA’s Coverdell Center & Research Activities

Harry Dailey is the Director of UGA's Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. Mr. Dailey will speak about recruiting new faculty for UGA's new Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences and the open-lab design concept that will be applied in the new facility. Margaret Wagner Dahl is the Director of Research Development and Technology Alliances for the Vice President for Research at UGA. Ms. Dahl will focus her comments on research activities that generate spin-off, incubator enterprises and how research institutions support and encourage these new business models.

Noon–1:30 pm
Lunch

Georgia Research Alliance
Susan Shows

The Georgia Research Alliance is one of the nation's most successful public/private partnerships of business, university research, and state government. In partnership with the state of Georgia, the Research Alliance has invested over $350 million in university-based research infrastructure to fuel economic growth and job development in Georgia.

The innovation capacity of Georgia's six research universities is key to the Research Alliance's economic development strategy. All investments are designed to build and recruit technology companies, expand existing industry, and attract increased federal research funding to Georgia. This presentation will explore ways the Research Alliance serves as a catalyst for economic growth statewide and partners with its member universities to build vital core research facilities.

1:30 pm–1:45 pm
Break

1:45 pm–3:00 pm
“Research Space: Assessing Institutional Return on Investment”
Thomas B. Higerd, Medical University of South Carolina, Catherine E. Watt, Clemson University

Effective space management requires knowledge of how well facilities function to meet institutional needs. Over the past decade, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) established and is now sharing an interactive, web-based, Space Management System whose elements can be related to elements from fiscal, personnel, and research databases. Experience has shown this to be invaluable for department chairs and deans in assessing their effectiveness in assigning laboratories, for senior administrators convincing boards to approve construction, and for aligning maintenance expenditures with indirect costs. This presentation introduces the system, demonstrates its utility at two distinct institutions, and offers an invitation to join a new space assessment consortium.

3:00 pm–3:15 pm
Break

3:15 pm–4:30 pm
“Leveraging NIH Grant Funding for Facility Development & Growth”
Jerry D. Percifield, Principal, O’Neal, Architects & Engineers, Stuart Zola, Director, Yerkes National Primate Research Center

For research institutions, grant funding, specifically those from NIH, can create opportunities to program and design new facilities that will support designated research activities. As with any capital project, the paramount goal is to maximize the potential these opportunities will bring to a campus. One way to accomplish this goal is to grow the project program by leveraging the initial grant opportunity. But how do you design such a strategy and how do you develop a building design that is flexible enough to accommodate new opportunities as they happen? This seminar will illustrate an example of a capital project that successfully met this challenge.

5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Reception