LOOKING TO YOUR FUTURE

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1 LOOKING TO YOUR FUTURE March 16, 2013 Presenta2on To the 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Dr. Taylor Eighmy Vice Chancellor for Research & Engagement 1

2 Overview First, We Need Some data The Future Tinkering and Shaping The Future of Public Research Universi2es The Future of R&D The Future of Big Data The Future of Visualiza2on The Future of Networking and Collabora2on The Future of 2

3 How many of you: First, We Need Some Data Have invited friends, family, faculty? Are doing this for the first, second, third, or fourth 2me? Have worked with faculty mentors outside your academic discipline? Have par2cipated in cohort learning? Have studied abroad? Have been to ORNL? Have seen/heard/met a Nobel Laureate? Have gone to a professional conference? Have presented at a professional conference? Have been brave and walked up to introduce yourself to some deity in your field and talked about your UGR? Have published in Pursuit? Have published in a conference proceedings? Have published in a scien2fic or scholarly journal? Belong to a professional society? Have business cards/belong to Linked In? Have reached out to faculty at other universi2es? Have applied to graduate school? Have talked about your UGR in your applica2on to graduate school? Want to get a Ph.D.? Want to mentor undergraduates? 3

4 The Future We Are Always Tinkering and in Search of 1.2 Gig wa^s for the DeLorean Doc Brown: This is it This is the answer. It says here that a bolt of lightning Is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04 pm next Saturday night! If we could somehow harness this lightning channel it into the flux capacitor It just might work. Next Saturday, we re sending you back to the future! 4

5 The Future We Absolutely Should Be Tinkering to Change the Future for the Be^er The vast possibili2es of our great future will become reali2es only if we make ourselves responsible for that future Gifford Pinchot In 1896, the NAS forms the Na2onal Forest Commission (precursor to USFS) Pinchot family endows the Yale School of Forestry Establishes the Society of American Foresters Establishes the Na2onal Conserva2on Associa2on Early thinking about TVA- like systems An2 clear- cunng Family establishes the Pinchot Ins2tute for Conserva2on Conserva2on ethic & sustainability YALE UNIVERSITY FRENCH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 28 TH GOVERNOR OF PA 1ST CHIEF OF THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE 5

6 The Future of Public Research Universi2es But what has made our universi2es the greatest in the world is not the quality of our undergraduate educa2on- - - as important as that is- - - but our ability to fulfill one of the other central missions of the leading universi2es: the produc2on of new knowledge through the discoveries that change our lives and the world. Cole, JR (2011) The Great American University, Bull. Amer. Acad. 6

7 The Future of Public Research Universi2es - Associa2on of American Universi2es (AAU) - Associa2on of Public And Land Grant Universi2es (APLU) - Na2onal Research Council (NRC) of the Na2onal Academies, - Na2onal Science Board (NSB) of the NSF 7

8 The Future of Public Research Universi2es World Future Society Dew, JR (2012) in World Future Review 8

9 The Future of Public Research Universi2es Research universi2es may experience a crisis in retaining their research faculty and infrastructure. This, in turn, will reduce their ability to sustain their tradi2onal approach to instruc2on in lower division courses, which depends heavily on graduate students. However, the brand recogni7on at research universi2es is so strong that they should have li^le difficulty a8rac7ng the numbers of students necessary to sustain opera7ons. In addi2on, they have a large number of alumni that will con2nue to contribute to the ins2tu2on as the economy recovers. The research universi2es also have athle2c programs that operate at or near profitability since they play heavily televised Division One football, which is the one area of collegiate athle2cs that pays for itself. Dew, JR (2012) in World Future Review 9

10 The Future of Public Research Universi2es Research universi2es may experience a crisis in retaining their research faculty and infrastructure. This, in turn, will reduce their ability to sustain their tradi2onal approach to instruc2on in lower division courses, which depend heavily on graduate students. However, the brad recogni2on at research universi2es is so strong that they should have li^le difficulty a^rac2ng the numbers of students necessary to sustain opera2ons. In addi2on, they have a large number of alumni that will con2nue to contribute to the ins2tu2on as the economy recovers. The research universi2es also have athle2c programs that operate at or near profitability since they play heavily televised Division One football, which is the one area of collegiate athle2cs that pays for itself. Dew, JR (2012) World Future Review 10

11 The Future of R&D PCAST (2012) Report to the President- - - Transforma2on And Opportunity: The Future of the U.S. Research Enterprise Bush, V (1945) Science the Endless Fron2er: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scien2fic Research 11

12 The Future of R&D R&D 3% of GDP Future Years Defense Program Model R&D Tax Credit More research awards Reform of regulatory burden Agency strategic plans High- risk, high- reward investment strategy Support research universi2es people and infrastructure Entrepreneurship at universi2es Innova2on ecosystems at universi2es Na2onal labs and industry Government- university- industry partnerships PCAST (2012) Report to the President- - - Transforma2on And Opportunity: The Future of the U.S. Research Enterprise 12

13 The Future of R&D President s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) White House Science Advisor Dr. John Holdren Na2onal Science and Technology Council (NSTC) White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 13

14 The Future of R&D: PCAST (20 members: MIT, UT Aus2n, Michigan, Princeton, Maryland, RPI, Yale, Northwestern, UCSD, Wash U., Harvard, Cal Tech, Honeywell, Google, Microsou, Hummer- Winblad, Alta Partners) h^p:// administra2on/eop/ostp/pcast Networking & IT Agriculture preparedness US Research enterprise Innova2on in drug discovery Spectrum Advanced manufacturing Nanotechnology Undergraduate STEM Ecosystems and economy Advanced manufacturing Networking and IT Health informa2on technology Energy technologies K- 12 STEM Influenza vaccine Nanotechnology H1NI Health Informa2cs Advanced Manufacturing Networking IT 14

15 The Future of R&D: NSTC (26 members: POTUS, VPOTUS, 19 S&T agencies, councils, Smithsonian Director) h^p:// administra2on/eop/ostp/nstc Our Changing planet 21 st century grid Ar2c research Science for an Ocean Na2on Na2onal Network for Manufacturing Innova2on Networking and IT R&D Deepwater Horizon Spill Na2onal Nanotechnology Ini2a2ve Interagency public access Na2onal strategic plan for advanced manufacturing Coordina2on on STEM investment Open innovator s tool kit Na2onal aeronau2cs R&D Trustworthy cyberspace Materials genome Open innova2on Advanced Manufacturing Smart Grid NNMI 15

16 The Future of R&D: 19 S&T Agencies Strategic Plans NSF DOE NIH- NIEHS 16

17 The Future of R&D: Global View h^p:// GFF2013Final2013_reduced.pdf 17

18 The Future of R&D: Global View h^p:// 18

24 The Future of Big Data: This is Big! h^p:// big_data_the_next_fron2er_for_innova2on McKinsey Global Ins2tute (2011) report 24

25 The Future of Big Data: This is Big! Very approximately: h^p://wikibon.org/blog/big- data- sta2s2cs/ You generate around 100 GBs of data daily > 1 exabyte (10 18 bytes) of data is generated world- wide every day > 1 ye^abyte (10 21 bytes) of digital data exists in the world today this is equivalent to around 100 million 16GB ipads 25

26 The Future of Big Data: This is Big! h^p:// big_data_the_next_fron2er_for_innova2on Actuaries Economists Computer Scien2sts (Souware & Visualiza2on) Epidemiologists Industrial Engineers Mathema2cians Mathema2cal Scien2sts Mathema2cal Technicians Opera2ons Research Analysts Sta2s2cians Data Analy2cs McKinsey Global Ins2tute (2011) report 26

27 The Future of Big Data: Personnel Data Hilbert & Lopez (2011) in Science 27

28 The Future of Big Data: Google h^p://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/the- big- disk- drive- in- the- sky- how- the- giants- of- the- web- store- big- data/ h^p:// 2012/10/ff- inside- google- data- center/all/ h^p:// 2012/10/google- data- center- secrets/ Google Data Center in SC Twelve or more data palaces around the globe Total storage?? 20 petabytes/day Index 20 billion web pages a day 3 billion search queries daily Storage for 425 million Gmail users Distributed file systems and object- based storage Spanner Server Room in Iowa 28

29 The Future of Big Data: Oakville/ Knoxridge NSF- funded data access NSF- funded math- biology- computa2on NSF- funded XSEDE computa2onal workhorse DOE- Funded fastest computer in the World 29

30 The Future of Visualiza2on: This is Essen2al h^p:// h^p://flowingdata.com Cool resource Great brain food 30

31 The Future of Visualiza2on: Global Talk h^p://senseable.mit.edu/nyte/ 24 Hours of Two Way Interna2onal Phone Call Traffic Involving NYC 24 Hours of Two Way IP Traffic Involving NYC 31

32 The Future of Visualiza2on: ORNL EVEREST Room EVEREST: Exploratory Visualiza2on Environment for Research in Science & Technology Supernova Collapse- - - Dr. Tony Mezzacappa 32

33 The Future of Academic Networking and Collabora2on SciVal Scopus: 20,000 journals SciVal R&D Data Mining 33

34 The Future of Networking and Collabora2on Scholarship Analy2cs 34

35 The Future of Networking and Collabora2on Collabora2on Networks Strength of Internal and External Collabora2ons 35

36 The Future of Undergraduate educa2on in research universi2es requires renewed emphasis on a point made by John Dewey almost a century ago: learning is based on discovery guided by mentoring (and cohort experien2al learning) rather than on the transmission of informa2on. Inherent in inquiry- based learning is an element of reciprocity: faculty can learn from students as students are learning from faculty. What s past is prologue Expansion of the 1998 Boyer Commission Principles and Undergraduate Research 36

37 The Future of Expand EUReCA Move to later in April Stronger role in CUR Coordina2on with other experien2al learning ac2vi2es (e.g., Chancellor s Honors Commi^ee, Office of Na2onal Scholarships & Fellowships, Office of Service Learning, Center for Leadership & Service, CIE) Student- Faculty Portal (e.g., UGR Craig s List) UROP/IROP endowments Pursuit and web access Fellowships through AY Formal office in Blount Hall Student leadership (USRA) Annual awards for student researchers and faculty mentors 100% full 2me staff support Tie to Top 25 Strategic Plan for Research 37

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