Over the course of several months, several faculty committees explored various concepts and proposals for how to organize research at UM. They considered areas such as innovation, public and private partnerships, and IT and cores infrastructure. They also weighed areas of research strength across UM and the strategic playing field in the decades to come. Commissioned to "dream big", these committees ultimately produced a cutting-edge research model that proposes to revolutionize how research is organized and motivated.
NCRC's novel research framework will accelerate our scientific progress along two paths: an interdisciplinary axis and a discovery-to-delivery chain axis. Read more about the framework.
Research Scientific Programming Committee (RSP) Report
A New Biology for the 21st Century. At the zenith of the NCRC planning effort, the National Research Council (NRC), which advises the major research funding entities of the Federal Government, released a provocative call for a realignment of research organization and funding. The "new biology" described by the NRC dovetails with the model proposed for NCRC, demonstrating that UM is again on the cutting edge.
Read the New Biology Report (free PDF download, overview video)