Another Academic Win: Select Designation for Healthcare Research

[OkaForPrez]

http://foxct.com/2014/12/11/uconn-receives-select-designation-for-healthcare-research/

The University of Connecticut was just designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This is a designation only afforded to a select few universities in the United States, will generate substantial funding for researchers, and raises the national visibility of University of Connecticut.

Your Move AAU.

 

[DSquiz]

Asked Dez about AAU status, his response:

@desmondconner: @dave_donohue don't know but for B10 it's all about leading research universities and federal rcvd for it not how football team did/does

 

[specialisthusky]

Asked Dez about AAU status, his response:

@desmondconner: @dave_donohue don't know but for B10 it's all about leading research universities and federal rcvd for it not how football team did/does

Is it me or is that way more information/knowledge than most expect from Des?

 

[DarthGrumpy]

http://foxct.com/2014/12/11/uconn-receives-select-designation-for-healthcare-research/



Your Move AAU.

Great news; but, this may take a while. Afteral, how does one explain Brandeis University's conclusion inclusion in the AAU? I know Albert Einstein helped to create it; but, it almost went bankrupt a few years back, it is the second smallest AAU member (CalTech is the smallest, no argument they deserve to be in the AAU), and it doe snot have programs in the typical research areas - engineering, hard science, medical (used to have vet; but, I think that program was transferred to Tufts).

 

[pj]

Great news; but, this may take a while. Afteral, how does one explain Brandeis University's conclusion inclusion in the AAU? I know Albert Einstein helped to create it; but, it almost went bankrupt a few years back, it is the second smallest AAU member (CalTech is the smallest, no argument they deserve to be in the AAU), and it doe snot have programs in the typical research areas - engineering, hard science, medical (used to have vet; but, I think that program was transferred to Tufts).

They have a high level of federal research funding per faculty member. That is one of the AAU metrics.

 

[junglehusky]

Great news; but, this may take a while. Afteral, how does one explain Brandeis University's conclusion inclusion in the AAU? I know Albert Einstein helped to create it; but, it almost went bankrupt a few years back, it is the second smallest AAU member (CalTech is the smallest, no argument they deserve to be in the AAU), and it doe snot have programs in the typical research areas - engineering, hard science, medical (used to have vet; but, I think that program was transferred to Tufts).

Not sure about engineering/physics but they have a good reputation for biology research.

 

[Kolumbo]

"We join an elite group of only 11 universities across North America including John’s Hopkins, Vanderbilt, and Brown who have these premier evidence synthesis groups."

 

[pj]

Brandeis gets 80% of the federal research funding of UConn-Storrs with about 3/8 as many faculty. About 2.2x as much funding per professor. If UConn could equal Brandeis's per-faculty funding level, it would be in the AAU.

 

[Ha Who]

Is it me or is that way more information/knowledge than most expect from Des?

I asked Dez about this years ago. His response was good question. I'll ask, never heard or read anything. Desi Arnez would be of more use.

 

[CTGoonie]

Brandeis gets 80% of the federal research funding of UConn-Storrs with about 3/8 as many faculty. About 2.2x as much funding per professor. If UConn could equal Brandeis's per-faculty funding level, it would be in the AAU.

Who's up for firing some faculty?!?

 

[pj]

Who's up for firing some faculty?!?

Heh. If UConn really wants to be AAU, that would be the way to get there quickly.

 

[ScottBonz]

Cough:Cough: UConn Pharmacy :Cough

That guy was one of my professors. Always thought he was the sidler for Seinfeld.

 

[Limbo Land]

This is a huge win......

• Brown University.
• Duke University.
• ECRI Institute—Penn Medicine.
• Johns Hopkins University.
• Kaiser Permanente Research Affiliates.
• Mayo Clinic.
• Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center.
• Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center—Oregon Health and Science University.
• RTI International—University of North Carolina.
• Southern California.
• University of Alberta.
• University of Connecticut.
• Vanderbilt University.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Brandeis gets 80% of the federal research funding of UConn-Storrs with about 3/8 as many faculty. About 2.2x as much funding per professor. If UConn could equal Brandeis's per-faculty funding level, it would be in the AAU.

Wow, what the heck is it spent on though without a engineering program, research hospital or even agricultural program? Each of which UConn and most other 'major' research universities have. Looking quickly at the AAU membership list, only a small number of AAU members do not have a school of medicine and of those, nearly all are engineering schools like CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, etc. The three exceptions appear to be UC - Santa Barbara, Iowa St and Princeton. Even the two Canadian AAU members, Toronto and McGill, have research hospitals.

 

[Stinger92860]

Brandeis gets 80% of the federal research funding of UConn-Storrs with about 3/8 as many faculty. About 2.2x as much funding per professor. If UConn could equal Brandeis's per-faculty funding level, it would be in the AAU.

I suspect that politics also plays a big role.

 

[BUConn10]

I suspect that politics also plays a big role.

From Wikipedia: "Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University."

So yea, checks out, definitely some connections involved.

 

[Stinger92860]

From Wikipedia: "Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middles e x University."

So yea, checks out, definitely some connections involved.

I meant for AAU designation today. Not sure if you were agreeing or if it was sarcasm.

 

[BUConn10]

I meant for AAU designation today. Not sure if you were agreeing or if it was sarcasm.

I was not being sarcastic., I agree.

 

[ThetaZoo]

This is a huge win.

• Brown University.
• Duke University.
• ECRI Institute—Penn Medicine.
• Johns Hopkins University.
• Kaiser Permanente Research Affiliates.
• Mayo Clinic.
• Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center.
• Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center—Oregon Health and Science University.
• RTI International—University of North Carolina.
• Southern California.
• University of Alberta.
• University of Connecticut.
• Vanderbilt University.

I wonder if ESPN would go for this...the Big Evidence-based Conference.

 

[Dooley]

I wonder if ESPN would go for this...the Big Evidence-based Conference.

It has USC, Vanderbilt and Duke in it. Already, the Big Evidence-based Conference is light years better than the AAC.

 

[upstater]

Heh. If UConn really wants to be AAU, that would be the way to get there quickly.

The big land grant schools probably will start using their breadth to press their advantage in the future. I already hear about this when it comes to the AAU, that schools that have strength across the disciplines are much better regard. So, all things being equal, UConn would have a better chance than say Virginia Tech.

 

[1husky]

It has USC, Vanderbilt and Duke in it. Already, the Big Evidence-based Conference is light years better than the AAC.

The question is, can we beat Mayo Clinic?

 

[pj]

The question is, can we beat Mayo Clinic?

In football or basketball? I think in field hockey we'd take them down.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

The big land grant schools probably will start using their breadth to press their advantage in the future. I already hear about this when it comes to the AAU, that schools that have strength across the disciplines are much better regard. So, all things being equal, UConn would have a better chance than say Virginia Tech.

V Tech is aware of that it appears, their first medical school class graduated in 2014. The school is based out of nearby Roanoke VA and focuses on community healthcare (UNC, U Washington, Quinnipiac, etc. do the same).

 

[upstater]

V Tech is aware of that it appears, their first medical school class graduated in 2014. The school is based out of nearby Roanoke VA and focuses on community healthcare (UNC, U Washington, Quinnipiac, etc. do the same).

VT is excellent when it comes to research. But in the last two decades they went well out of their way to recruit faculty in the arts & sciences to makeup a huge deficit. In the last 5 years, they've backtracked. This is why that research $ to % of faculty measure is a bit faulty. It works at Tufts and Rochester and several other schools with strength across the disciplines, but some are too specialized and are not given much credit. RIT is tiny, for instance, and makes about $50m in research, but is a wasteland in the arts & sciences. But has a great # for research $ to faculty #s.