Strategic Academic Focusing Initiative
Our faculty-focused development of a strategic academic vision
Open Proposals
Strategic Initiative on Multi-scale Biological Active Matter (SIMBA)
Materials Research Initiative
California Institute of Drone Engineering Research (CIDER) (revision)
School of Innovation, Management, and Economics: Leading Innovation, Managing for Change
Biological Engineering and Small-scale Technologies (BEST)
Computational and Data Science
We propose a campus research theme in Computational and Data Science. This research field has emerged as an important companion to theoretical and experimental research in natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences. Due to recent advances in high-throughput measurement technologies in nearly every active research area, as well as increased computational hardware capabilities, we now have unprecedented opportunities and access to terabyte, petabyte, and even exabyte datasets.
Applied Philosophy
Applied Philosophy is an approach to philosophy that incorporates mathematical modeling, laboratory experiments and computer simulations just as much as conceptual analysis and reasoning. We are submitting this proposal primarily to indicate how the various research areas we emphasize exist as parts of the strategic focusing initiatives of other academic units. The specific research areas we emphasize are: (1) Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, (2) Philosophy and Cognitive Science, (3) Gender and Race Studies, (4) Applied Ethics.
Molecular Cell Biology Strategic Academic Vision - Round 2
The Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) Unit is currently comprised of 16 faculty members whose research is focused in 1) Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology, 2) Cell and Developmental Biology, 3) Microbiology and Immunology, and 4) Neurobiology. We currently serve 1084 undergraduate students in the Biological Sciences (BIO) major and 45 masters and doctoral students in the Quantitative and Systems Biology (QSB) Graduate Group.