Veronica Acosta-DePrez
JoAnn Aguirre
Elizabeth Ambos
Cherryl Arnold
John J. Attinasi
Roger Bauer
Robert Berdan
Bruce Berg
JoAnn Bernard
Eric Besnard
Lee Blecher
Paul Bott
James R. Brett
Nancy Briggs
Judy Brusslan
Pamela Bunte
Paul Buonora
Anastasios Chassiakos
Norma Chinchilla
Young-Hee Cho
Chi-Ah Chun
Donald Coan
Charles Collins
Nancy H. Corby
Stafford Cox
Francine Curtis
Jeff Davis
Vincent Del Casino
David Dowell
Mort Ebneshahrashoob
Elizabeth Eldon
Willie Elston
Loretta Enriquez-Najera
Shelley Eriksen
Dennis Fisher
Robert Francis
Janice Frates
Robert Friis
John Garhammer
Yihnan David Gau
Editte Gharakhanian
Constance Glenn
Sherna Gluck
Sara Goering
Claude Goldenberg
Frank Gossette
Alan Grant
Darwin Hall
Gerard Hanley
Joellen Hartley
Hamid Hefazi
Maridith Janssen
John Jung
Kevin Kelley
Bonnie Kellogg
Douglas Kennett
Simon Kim
Laura Kingsford
Chuhee Kwon
Christopher Lee
Julia Lee
Alfred F. Leung
Lijuan Li
Hongjie Liu
Jing Liu
Marco Lopez
Javier Lopez-Zetina
Chris Lowe
Elena Macias
Carolyn Madding
C. Kevin Malotte
Donna Marykwas
Valerie McKay
Maureen McMahon
Ron Miller
Genevieve Monahan
Kensaku Nakayama
Julie O'Donnell
John Oliver
Elizabeth Ortiz
Emelinda Parentela
Jack Pearson
Joseph Plecnik
Lucy Pomerantsev
Kristin Powers
Hamid Rahai
David Ramirez
Maria Ramirez-Herrera
Britt Rios-Ellis
William Ritz
Patricia Rozee
T.R. Rubino-Schaffer
Michelle Saint-Germain
James Sample
Cynthia M. Saunders
Donald Schwartz
William Sinclair
Krzysztof Slowinski
Judy Smith
M. Sue Stanley
James Stein
Ron Strahl
Reza Toossi
C. F. Tsai
John Tsuchida
Dessie Underwood
Marianne Venieris
Suzanne Wechsler
Barbara White
Elaine White
Doris Williams

External Grants and Contracts

As expected, 2000-2001 was a slower year for proposals and a very good year for awards. During 2000-2001 the faculty and staff produced 176 proposals for a total amount requested of $56,771,984. The record high number of proposals in the previous year produced the second highest dollar amount of awards ever--$39,199,161--this year!

The portfolio of proposals has the characteristics typical of previous years' proposals. Of the 176 proposals 150 are new and 26 competing continuation proposals:

There continues to be a strong interest in federal programs and a healthy proportion of academic research.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is clearly the single most important source of programs, although the National Science Foundation proportion of CSULB proposals is steadily gaining and showing remarkable success on the award side as well.

Proposals show a good involvement of students, there being about 2,000 proposed, one fourth of them graduate students.

Of the 176 proposals, 38 proposed research using human subjects and 6 using laboratory animals or animals in the field or sea.

In addition to the $59,771,984 proposed or requested from external sources, the University was required to pledge an institutional financial commitment (cost-share) on a significant number of proposals. A total of $4,380,635 matching was proposed. This increase in the cost of doing business comes in the wake of new federal emphasis on and concern over cost-sharing.

Project directors generally receive a percentage of the "Facilities and Administration" (F&A) costs (formerly known as "indirect costs") recovered from grants and contracts. The policy provides for a return to the project director's college based on the F&A rate charged on the grant. A total of $1,787,855 was indicated for redistribution on this year's proposals. The total number includes some negative amounts arising when no F&A costs are recovered and the project director's college or unit must pay Foundation 7% of the direct costs as an administrative fee.

Internal Operations

The Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee administered three internal grant programs this year. Nearly $198,000 were allocated for MiniGrants (up to $4,000) and Summer Stipends (one month's salary) in the fall competition. One hundred 3-unit assigned time awards were made in the spring. A $20,000 fund was made available for the Conference Grant Program for faculty members who actively participated in academic and scholarly conferences.

The Office of University Research inaugurated a new "electronic greensheet" for electronic (via email) internal clearance of proposals in the early spring. The system is very successful and has proven to be quite efficient.

The University and the Foundation promulgated a new policy on cost-sharing, which requires that the details of cost-sharing pledges become a part of the internal clearance process. The Office of University Research produced a set of electronic forms for this purpose.

The University applied for and was granted a new Federal-Wide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects. It was the 22nd such approval made in the nation. The IRB has promulgated several minor changes to the new IRB Manual.

The University IACUC has promulgated a new AWB Manual.

The Director, Office of University Research authored the first four modules of the University's "Responsible Conduct of Research Program."

Thanks to the following members of the faculty and staff for their work during the year:

• Dr. Sharon Sievers, Chair, Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee
• Dr. Libby Deschenes and Dr. Bonnie Kellogg, Chairs of the IRB, fall and spring respectively
• Dr. James Archie, Chair, AWB
• Ms. Paulette McIntosh, Sr. Assistant Director for University Research
• Ms. Carolyn Dersch, Assistant Director for Sponsored Projects

And special thanks to Rosanna Mogi, JoAnn Haworth, Ellen Teneriello, Frank Gutierrez, Sam Sangalang, Dr. John Young, Dr. Elena Macias, and Dr. Henry Fung.

Cordially,

James R. Brett, Ph.D.
Director, Office of University Research
August 8, 2001