The University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) recently announced the election of board members. Among them was Elizabeth Adams, Assistant Vice President for Research Administration at UVA, who was re-elected to her role as University Director. The UIDP is comprised of approximately 150 members from premier innovation companies and the world’s best research universities. The group supports mutually beneficial collaborations between academia and industry, developing strategies for addressing common issues between the two sectors and developing synergy and innovation between universities and companies. As a board member, Adams works with other members of the UIDP leadership team to address challenges impacting research collaboration and help develop new approaches for industry and academia to work together.
Read more about UIDP at www.uidp.org
Urmila Bajaj, Director of Post Award, was recently recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her excellent work in preparing UVA’s response to the FY 2016 Higher Education Research and Development Survey. Information submitted in response to the survey becomes part of NSF’s statistics on research and development expenditures in 40 fields. NSF routinely provides these statistics to federal, state, and academic decision makers. John Gawalt, Director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the NSF, lauded Bajaj and her team for the significant amount of effort that went into providing the information requested on the survey.
To see previous years’ survey results as well as a variety of other science and engineering statistics, visit www.nsf.gov/statistics
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