Research News
Past Issues of Research News
June 2008 Issue
Table of Contents:
UK Trade Group - Available Funding
IIT Day on Capitol Hill
IIT Research Day
Sigma Xi Research Awards
MSED PSI Program is Recruiting Research Hosts
NIH Public Access Policy
Acknowledgements
UK Trade Group - Available Funding
In ongoing relationship building efforts, two representatives of the U.K. Consulate Trade Group in Chicago met in May with a group of IIT faculty to discuss how that organization could interact for mutual benefit with IIT. The UK Trade Group can tap its numerous, high level contacts with British companies in the U.S. and around the world. It also is a clearinghouse for funding opportunities for high-level studies and research opportunities, and work to connect interested universities and businesses in those arenas.
There are two websites that should be of particular use to IIT faculty at http://www.iit.edu/research/services/External_Funding.shtml. The GOST (Guide to the Organization of Science, Engineering, and Technology) and SISTER (Support for International Science, Technology and Engineering Research) web sites map the publicly-funded research landscape in the UK and sources of funds in the UK for international science. This includes research funding, travel funding, funding for running international conferences, researcher/postdoc exchanges, etc
We encourage your exploration of opportunities available via the website. If you have particular questions/thoughts about how to tap the resources of the UK Trade Group, please contact Ruth Sweetser, Director, Professional Learning & Business Relations (sweetser@iit.edu, 630.682.6020).
On Tuesday, April 29, IIT President John Anderson hosted IIT Day on Capitol Hill in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. President Anderson and a team of IIT researchers highlighted several areas of IIT research for members of the Illinois congressional delegation, their staff members, and local alumni. The research themes of the event were Energy Sustainability, National Infrastructure for Safety and Security, Science, Engineering, Technology (SET) for Health, and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Education.
In attendance were newly elected Representative Bill Foster (IL-14), former Argonne scientist and entrepreneur; Representative Peter Roskam (IL-6), a Chicago-Kent alumnus; Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-9); and Representative Judy Biggert (IL-13).On Tuesday, April 22, the Graduate College, Office of Research Support Services, hosted the annual IIT Research Day student poster session. Thirty graduate and undergraduate students from AM, BCPS, CS, CHBE, ECE, and MMAE participated. In the graduate division first place went to Yong Hao (ECE); second place went to Pranjal Jain (ECE); and third place went to N. Maxwell Rajan (BCPS). In the undergraduate division first place went to Robert Whittlesey (MMAE); second place went to Omaditya Khanna (CHBE); and third place went to Evan Himchak (BCPS).
After the student poster session, Dr. Raymond Bair from the Argonne National Lab delivered the Sigma Xi Lecture. Please contact Carlo Segre in BCPS if you would like to watch the video of the lecture.
The research award for the most number of awards per faculty and the most number of proposals per faculty went to the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The research award for the most number of dollars per faculty member went to the Department of Mathematics and Science Education.The Graduate College is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Sigma Xi Research Awards. The Sigma Xi Research Awards recognize exemplary accomplishments in research, scholarship, and creative activity by faculty members and graduate students at IIT. The recipients are:
Senior Faculty Division
Miles Wernick
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Wernick received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990, and joined IIT in 1994. He currently holds the rank of Professor with a joint appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering departments. For the past 14 years, Dr. Wernick has led IIT's research efforts in the area of medical imagining; his funding from NIH totals more than $7 million. In 2004, Dr. Wernick started the Medical Imaging Research Center, and since then he has recruited several new faculty members into his research group.
In addition to his work in medical imaging, Dr. Wernick has also been active in a wide range of related fields including image processing, machine learning, and optics. He is, however, best known for his work in the areas of multiple-image radiography, 4D medical image reconstruction, pharmaceutical evaluation using functioning neuroimaging, image recognition and analysis methods, and multispectral infrared imaging of the eye.
Dr. Wernick has authored or co-authored 42 journal papers, 70 full-length conference papers, 4 book chapters, and he holds 2 patents. He has supervised 9 Ph.D. dissertations and 16 M.S. theses. He is also co-editor of the book, Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT, published by Academic Press, and distributed to 600 medical imaging researchers by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Junior Faculty Division
Shangping Ren
Computer Science
Dr. Ren is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science; she joined IIT in 2003 after earning her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her first year at IIT, her work generated a joint patent for secure access of medical records, and she received a research grant from the National Science Foundation. In 2005, Dr. Ren received funding from IIT's Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF), and in 2006 she was awarded an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship. Earlier this year, she received a prestigious NSF Career Award.
Dr. Ren performs research in the areas of distributed time-critical systems, dynamic real-time systems, and security of electronic records. She is the author or co-author of 1 book chapter, 8 journal articles, and 29 conference proceedings.
Student Division
Tengchuan Jin
Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
Mr. Jin matriculated at IIT in 2003 after receiving a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a B.A. in Business from the University of Science and Technology of China. In May, he will receive his Ph.D. in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics. His research focuses on the structural biology of biomacromolecules, especially proteins and protein complexes. During his time at IIT, Mr. Jin has worked on the structural characterization of a number of food allergens found in peanuts and tree nuts.
In 2005, Mr. Jin won the Best TA Award in the BCPS department. He has authored or co-authored 9 journal articles. After graduation, Mr. Jin will begin work as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an institute within the National Institutes of Health.
MSED PSI Program is Recruiting Research Hosts
The Department of Mathematics and Science Education will be conducting a new masters program for middle school teachers beginning this summer. A major component of the program will be an extended research practicum. MSED is seeking to recruit 10-15 researchers as collaborators to host our students.
The overarching purpose of the research practicum is to promote the teaching of science as science is practiced. More specifically, the goal is to expose teachers to new and developing science content, provide exposure to the practice of science and establish networking opportunities to all participants. The teachers in the program will also use their experience and the knowledge gained to bring the cutting edge research into the middle school classroom.
The participants would be expected to complete two work sessions a week during the two summer sessions (July 08 and July 09) and two work sessions a month during the academic years (2008-09 and 2009-10). They will have regular journal assignments, annual reports, instructional plans and other assignments to guide their experience. They will be supervised by faculty and staff from the Mathematics and Science Education Department. We have also budgeted $1000 per student for each hosting lab.
If you would like more information on participating, please contact Daniel Meyer by email at meyerd@iit.edu or by phone at (312) 567-3626; or Kimberly Fluet by email at fluet@iit.edu or by phone at (312) 567-3670This is a reminder that the mandatory NIH Public Access Policy (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html) applies to final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. Making published research funded by NIH accessible to everyone, including health care providers, patients, educators and scientists, helps advance science and improve human health. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal, and I appreciate your efforts to make the NIH Public Access Policy successful.
The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm), which was signed into law late last year. Compliance with this Policy is a legal requirement and a term and condition for all active grants and contracts awarded as of April 7, 2008. Failure to comply may trigger one or more enforcement actions, depending on the severity and duration of the non-compliance.
Please see the Public Access Web site for the tools you need to comply with the Policy. The Web site houses Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), training information, and other resources.
To ensure compliance with the Policy, please remember to:
Address Copyright - Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreements allow your paper to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy.
Submit Papers upon Acceptance for Publication
- Some journals will submit the final published article on your behalf, without your involvement. See http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm for a list of these journals.
- For any journal other than those on this list, please:
- When submitting a paper for publication, inform the journal that the final peer-reviewed manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy.
- Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreement allows the final peer-reviewed manuscript to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy. For more information, see the FAQ Whose approval do I need to submit my article to PubMed Central? and consult with your Institution.
- Submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript to NIH upon acceptance for publication at http://www.nihms.nih.gov/. See the Submission Process for more information.
Cite Papers
- When citing your NIH-funded papers in NIH applications, proposals or progress reports, please include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) for each paper.
- NIH will monitor compliance through citations. Effective May 25, 2008, when your NIH Program Officer reviews your progress report or application, he or she will be expecting a PMCID in the citation of every applicable paper that arose out of your NIH funding, or a manuscript submission system reference number (NIHMSID) if the PMCID has not been issued. See Section C of our FAQ for examples.
- If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is okay. We have signed agreements with these journals that allow NIH to resolve submission with them without your involvement. To facilitate your Program Officer's job, we ask that you indicate "PMC Journal - In Process" until the PMCID is available.
The NIH Public Access Policy is a legal requirement and represents an important opportunity for science and medicine.
Acknowledgements
Ali Cinar, Ph.D.
Dean of the Graduate College and
Vice Provost for Research
312.567.3637
cinar@iit.edu
Ganesh Raman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
312.567.3554
raman@iit.edu
Julia Chase, M.S.
Editor and Production Coordinator
chasej@iit.edu
The Staff of Research Support Services:
Toni R. Allen
Associate Director
Office of Sponsored Research & Programs
312.567.3035
allen@iit.edu
Pamela Andrews
Associate Director
Office of Sponsored Research & Programs
312.567.3022
andrewsp@iit.edu
Glenn Krell, M.P.A., C.R.A
Director
Office of Research Compliance and Proposal Development
312.567.7141
krell@iit.edu
Robert Lapointe, M.B.A, J.D.
Manager, Research Marketing & Business Development
Graduate College
312.567.7135
lapointe@iit.edu
Domenica G. Pappas, C.R.A
Director
Office of Sponsored Research & Programs
312.567.3035
pappas@iit.edu
Flo Redmond, M.B.A, C.R.A.
Associate Director
312.567.3340
redmond@iit.edu