Annual Report of Research Activity Office of the Vice President for Research | Fiscal Year 2012
“In fact, collaboration across traditional disciplines and the ‘invention’ of new ways to approach old problems is perhaps our greatest institutional strength.”
THIS BOOKLET PROVIDES IMPORTANT QUANTITATIVE DIMENSIONS OF PENN STATE RESEARCH FOR FISCAL 2012, AND OFFERS A FEW COMPARISONS WITH PREVIOUS YEARS TO REVEAL LONGER-TERM TRENDS.
For example, you will see the steady upward trend in the University’s total R&D expenditures— an increase of 48 percent over the past decade, and a solid indication that our faculty are successfully proposing path-breaking research and development initiatives to federal, state, and private-sector sponsors. In the subcategory of federal dollars in support of research, the trend is even more dramatic: $507 million in federal support in fiscal 2012, an increase of 80 percent in the last ten years. Industry-sponsored funding increased to $110 million in fiscal 2012. That we continue to experience increases in both federal and private-sector funding reflects Penn State’s ability to compete with our peers in attracting research support, and the enviable reputation that the University has earned among various funding sources. You will also see that seven of our academic colleges, along with the Applied Research Laboratory, each report annual research expenditures greater than $30 million. Those numbers indicate the University’s research portfolio is balanced across academic disciplines. And because we have a balanced portfolio, we have successfully implemented an interdisciplinary approach to much of our research and creative work. In fact, collaboration across traditional disciplines and the “invention” of new ways to approach old problems is perhaps our greatest institutional strength. Research informs our graduate education—now in its 150th year at Penn State—and makes the quality of that learning experience second to none. We continue to attract advanced-degree candidates from all over the world. Research is an integral part of who we are at Penn State, and what we do.
Henry C. Foley Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School
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Total Research Expenditures, 2003–2012
(Federal and Nonfederal)
Research sponsored by industry, private foundations, and related sources, 2003–2012
In millions of dollars
In millions of dollars
$900 800
102.4
2008
2009
2010
110.1
103.6
2005
98.2
2004
60
301
328
308
319
306
290
285
273
257
83.7
75.9
507
477
472
446
411
375
372
365
350 238
82.3
80
545
104.8
100
665
607
307
200
$120
91.8
638
657
400 300
808
717
600 500
805
107.4
765
700
780
40
20 100 0
0 2003
2004
Federal
2005
2006
Nonfederal
2007
2008
Total
2009
2010
2011
2012
2003
2006
2007
2011
2012
Expenditures from Federal Agencies
Expenditures by Performing Unit
1 Dep Depart artmen mentt of o f Defe D efense nse $177,051,000
1 Defens Defensee-R Rela elated ted Re Resea search rch Un Units its $182,938,000
10 Inform Inf ormati ation on Sci Scienc ences es and Techno Tec hnolog log g y $8,864,000
2 Depart Departmen mentt of Health and Human Hu man S err v ices i es $132,235,000
11 Oth Other er $13,564,000
$ 3 N at atii o n a l Sc Scii e n ce F Fou oun ou n dat datii o n $62,283,000
2 En Eng g ineeri ineerin ng $129,671,000
4 D O E $37 $37,84 ,842,0 2,000 00
3 Ag ricultural Sciences $10 $ 2,5 , 04,, 000
5 US USDA DA $24,014,000 $ , ,
4 Med ediic in ine e $98,703,000
6 NASA $14,901,000
5 Eberly College of Science $97,209,000
7 E ducat ducatii o n $7,484,000
6 Ea rth a nd Min Mine eral Sc Sciiences $69,621,000
8 Ot Oth h e r $51,888,000 7 Health and Human Development $46,833,000
12 O ther Schools and Colleg Colleg es $9,250,000
8 Li Libe berra l Arts be Arts $31,877,000 9 Educat ducatii on $16,468,000 10 11
Total $507,428,000
12
8
8
Total $807,50 02,000
9
7 6
1
7 1
5
6 4
2
5
3
4 2
3
Sources of Research Funding
Total Graduate Student Enrollment (Resident Instruction and World Campus)
1 Fed Federa erall $507,428,000 2 U n i ver verss i t y $12 $125 5 6 18 5,618 18,000 000 3 Indust Industrr y and other $110,123,000
Th e Un The Univ iver ersi sity ty r em emai ains ns a popular choice for graduate education, with resident inst in stru ruct ctio ion n su supp pple leme ment nted ed i n recent years by Penn State World Campus offerings.
4 Commonwealth of o f Penns Pennsylv y lv ania $64,333,000
Total $ $807,502,000 , ,
15000 11,760
10,883 12000
10,310
6000
2007
2008
2009
2010
Resident Instruction R
W World Campus
((Fall only)
((Calendar year)
2011
5,412
Total Enrollment
2006
4,826
2005
3,890
2004
3,426
2003
2,429
1
1,967
0
3,035
3000
2
13,553
8,141
8,532
8,893
9,088
9,206
9,707
9,793
3
12,514
13,358
9,808
9000
4
12,136 12,241
12,783
2012
Graduate Degrees Conferred
Ov er t he p as Over astt te ten n ye year ars, s, Penn State has conferred nearly 29,000 graduate degr de gree eess , i nc nclu ludi ding ng m or ore e than 6,400 doctoral degrees.
3500 2,873 3000
2,651
2,751 2,763 2,778
2,855
2,957
3,054
3,037
3,165
2500 2,488
2,355
2,374
2,278
2,197
2,093
2,089
2,145
2,293
2,101
2000
1500
1000 682
677
680
679
658
685
674
606
580
550
500
10–11
11–12
0 2002–03
03–04
Master’s M
04–05
05–06
Doctoral
06–07
T Total
07–08
08–09
09–10
Contacts
Henry C. Foley
Steve Blake
Ronald J. Huss
Carlo G. Pantano
Vice President for Research
Director of Development 304 Old Main
Director, Office of Technology Management
Director, Materials Research Institute
Dean of the Graduate School
814-863-6311 steveblake@psu.edu
814-865-6277 rjh22@psu.edu
814-863-8407 cgp1@psu.edu
Daniel R. Leri
Padma Raghavan
Graduate School
Director, Innovation Park
Regina VasilatosYounken
814-863-6301 DanLeri@psu.edu
Director, Institute for CyberScience
304 Old Main University Park, PA 16802-1504 814-863-9580 hcf2@psu.edu Daniel A. Notterman Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Medicine
Senior Associate Dean 114 Kern Building 814-865-2516 rxv@psu.edu
Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Research
Suzanne Adair
717-531-7199 dan13@psu.edu
Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs
Ronald J. Huss
Senior Director of Graduate Educational Equity Programs
814-865-9233 raghavan@cse.psu.edu
Interdisciplinary Research
Thomas L. Richard
Peter Hudson
Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Director, The Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
814-865-3722 tlr20@psu.edu
814-863-3650 pjh18@psu.edu
Michael Bérubé
Edward G. Liszka
Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Director, Defense-Related Research Units
814-865-0495 mfb12@psu.edu
113 Technology Center
114 Kern Building
814-865-6277 rjh22@psu.edu
814-865-2516 sca917@psu.edu
814-865-6343 egl4@psu.edu
David W. Richardson
Technology Transfer
Associate Vice President for Research, Director of Sponsored Programs
Stephen P. Brawley
Associate Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer
Karl Harris
110 Technology Center 814-865-3396 dwr14@psu.edu
Director, Ben Franklin Technology Center of Central and Northern Pennsylvania, Inc. 814-865-8669 spb4@psu.edu
Director, ElectroOptics Center 724-295-7000 kah26@psu.edu Susan McHale Director, Social Science Research Institute 814-865-2647 mchale@psu.edu
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