Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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BIOLOGY — Richard Lumsden, Alfred Smalley. Milton Fin- german, Steven Darwin, Merle Mizell. Stuart Bamforth, Har- old Dundee. Gerald Gunning, Claudia de Gray, David Freder- ickson, Joan Bennett, Erik Ellgaard, Leonard Thien. m Wiifi CHEMISTRY — Front Row: D J. Darensbourg, Gary McPherson, Joel T. Mague, John Jacobus, Harry Ensley, Charles Fritchic, Mark Sulkes, Roy Auerback, William Al- worth; Back Row: Larry Byers, Jan Hamer, Melvyn Levy, Marcetta Y. Darcnbourg. Research PHYSICS — Robert Purrington, Joseph Kyame, Robert Morriss, Ann McKay Yards, Karlem Riess, Salvatore Buc- cino, Mike Norman, John Perdew, Ronald Deck. PSYCHOLOGY — Front Row: Chris Wilson, Chezuko Izawa, Lee Hoffman, Lawrence Dachowski, S. Gray Gar- wood; Back Row: Krista-Stewart-Lester, Jeff Lockman, Hal- sey Matteson, Ina Bilodeau, Jeff Sulzer, Jay Hansche, Janis Dunlap, Davis J. Chambliss. 24 Rcsc, •arch The history of sponsored re- search at Tulane closely resem- bles the history of the Titanic, according to Gene D ' Amour, di- rector of sponsored projects at Tulane. In 1 960, Tulane ranked 22nd of all universities in the amount of external funding received for re- search and development. By 1979, Tulane bottomed out at 116th. D ' Amour believes the Univer- sity simply lost its entreprenural spirit. In fact, the office of spon- sored research was actually elimi- nated at one point in the late 70s. Another crucial factor in Tu- lane ' s decline was that the Medi- cal School began construction of a new hospital. This activity drained much of their resources and severely affected Tulane ' s search for research funds because the Medical School usually brings in the majority of research monies. Since these funds are so impor- tant to the University, Tulane de- cided to re-establish the Office Of Sponsored Projects. In the fall of 1980, D ' Amour went to work. The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the boot- straps, D ' Amour recalled. Not only was there nothing here, but there were all kinds of barriers to doing research. We had to tear down the barriers and start con- structing systems to help faculty. The job of helping the faculty can be divided into two areas, pre- award phase, D ' Amour has estab- lished a grants information sys- tem. Through this system the fac- ulty is made aware of available grants through newsletters, spe- The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the bootstraps. cial announcements, consultant services and workshops. And once a faculty member has decided to seek a grant, D ' Amour ' s office has developed a new proposal routing procedure to help them apply for the money. D ' Amour and his staff have been working on an extensive post-award program to help fac- ulty through the red tape of ad- ministering research funds. Although he still has much more work before him, D ' Amour can happily point to impressive results from his efforts. He re- ported that 128 faculty members requested 222 grants for $14 mil- lion in 1980-81. This is dramati- cally up from 1979-80, when only 88 faculty members placed 137 applications for $9 million. The application rate is holding steady in 1981-82, he added.

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Ml h i f l: rii Mcvcr fclcihcrg li)tr hildlxTg procntl;. icrici js dean of ihc School of Busi- ness He received his B A from ihe Lnivcrsily of Wnwalcrs- rand. his MBA, from Colum- bia, and his Ph.D. from Ihc Uni- versity of Cape Town. Fcldberg formerly held ihe post of direc- tor of Executive Education and professor of Business Policy at Northwestern University. n ' 1.

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