Council on Research
Other Information
LaSMARTS provides daily funding opportunity alerts by
email.
LaGENIUS is the Louisiana portion of a National Searchable
Database of University Academic and Technical Expertise.
SPIN is an on-line, comprehensive database of federal
and foundation funding opportunities.
More information on LaSMARTS, LaGENIUS, and SPIN are available at :
http://epscor2.phys.lsu.edu/facDatabase/LaSMARTS/main.html.
UNIVERSITY MEMBERSHIPS
Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
The mission of ARCUS is to strengthen and advance arctic research to meet
national needs. ARCUS consists of institutions organized and operated for
educational, professional, or scientific purposes. An institution is considered
eligible for membership in ARCUS if it has made a definitive, substantial,
and continuing commitment to a coherent research program or course of studies
leading to degrees in one or more of the disciplines associated with arctic
research or related fields. These institutions have a common purpose of
advancing science, promoting the application of their knowledge to national
problems, and attacking in concert those scientific and technological questions
that require the collaborative skills and resources of scientists, engineers,
and others throughout the nation and world. For more information contact
LSU Consortium Representative Dr. H. Jesse Walker at 225-578-5942.
Environmental Research Consortium of Louisiana (ERCLA)
Realizing that environmental research is vitally important to maintaining
and strengthening Louisiana's natural resources, ERCLA was formed by leading
research entities. These entities include LSU 's Office of Research and
Graduate Studies, Institute for Recyclable Materials, Coastal Fisheries
Institute, and Institute for Environmental Studies. As a founding member
of ERCLA, LSU is committed to providing leading edge research to solve the
environmental problems of the state. Information is disseminated through
workshops, a newsletter and a web page. For more information contact Dr.
George Strain at strain@lsu.edu or Dr.
Russell Chapman at chapman@lsu.edu.
National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges
(NASULGC)
Founded in 1887, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges (NASULGC) in the nation's oldest higher education association.
A voluntary association of public universities, land-grant institutions
and many of the nation's public university systems, NASULGC campuses are
located in all 50 states, the U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Dedicated to supporting excellence in teaching, research and public service,
NASULGC has been in the forefront of educational leadership nationally for
over a century. In 1963, the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges
and State Universities merged with the National Association of State Universities
to create the association in its present configuration. The association
is governed by a chair and board of directors elected from the member institutions.
For more information contact Interim Chancellor William Jenkins at wljenk@lsu.edu
or NASULGC at www.nasulgc.nche.edu.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Since 1946, faculty, staff and students of LSU have benefited from its
membership in ORAU (www.orau.org). A
consortium of colleges and universities and a management and operating contractor
for the US Department of Energy located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORAU works
with its member institutions to help students, faculty and staff gain access
to federal research facilities throughout the nation. ORAU also strives
to keep its members informed about opportunities for fellowship, scholarship
and research appointments and to organize research alliances among its members.
Through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (the DOE facility
that ORAU manages) undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, as well as
faculty and staff enjoy access to a multitude of opportunities for study
and research. Students can participate in programs covering a wide variety
of disciplines including business, earth sciences, epidemiology, engineering,
physics, geological sciences, pharmacology, ocean sciences, biomedical sciences,
nuclear chemistry, and mathematics. Appointment and program length range
from one month to four years. Many of these programs are especially designed
to increase the numbers of under represented minority students pursuing
degrees in science-and engineering-related disciplines. A comprehensive
listing of these programs and other opportunities, their disciplines, and
details on locations and benefits can be found in the Resource Guide, which
is available at www.orau.gov/orise.htm.
ORAU's Office of Higher Education Initiatives seeks opportunities for partnerships
and alliances among ORAU's members, private industry, and major federal
facilities. Activities include faculty development programs, such as the
Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards and the Visiting Industrial Scientist
Program, and various services to chief research officers. For more information
about ORAU and its programs, contact Dr. Harold Silverman, ORAU Council
member at cxsilv@lsu.edu, Dr. Edward
Zganjar, ORAU Board Member at zganjar@rouge.phys.lsu.edu,
or Todd Pourciau at orpour@lsu.edu.
Sea Grant Association (SGA)
The Sea Grant Association combines
the capabilities of academic institutions nationwide that participate in
the National Sea
Grant College Program. These institutions represent the nation's most
advanced capabilities in marine, coastal, and Great Lakes research, education,
and outreach. SGA provides the mechanism for these institutions to coordinate
their activities, to set program priorities at both the regional and national
level, and to provide a unified voice for these institutions on issues of
importance to the oceans and coasts. The Sea Grant Program is the nation's
principal mechanism for translating significant advances in university research
into new economic opportunity. Sea Grant works closely with coastal and
marine resource managers to help conserve our resources for the future.
Approximately half of Sea Grant's annual budget is devoted towards competitive,
peer-reviewed scientific research. An additional third is focused on outreach
activities through Sea Grant's marine advisory service, which works with
ordinary citizens at the grassroots level to make research advances readily
accessible to those who can use them. The marine advisory service also helps
Sea Grant to translate the needs of coastal communities into new research
priorities for the program. The remainder of Sea Grant's expenditures are
for marine science education, which reaches well over a hundred thousand
students at all levels each year, a communications program which helps to
publicize the results of Sea Grant research, and program administration.
Louisiana Sea Grant was established
at Louisiana State University in 1968. Ten years later, its high quality
and comprehensive scope won the university official designation as the nation's
thirteenth Sea Grant College. In 1995, this designation was reaffirmed after
a thorough and laudatory review conducted by the National Sea Grant College
Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For more
information about the Louisiana Sea Grant program contact Executive Director
Jack Van Lopik (225-578-6710).
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
SURA (www.sura.org) is a consortium
of forty-six universities in 13 southeastern states and the District of
Columbia established in 1980 as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation. The organization's
purpose is to serve as an entity through which colleges, universities, and
other organizations may cooperate with one another and with government and
other organizations in acquiring, developing, and using laboratories, machines,
and other research facilities and in furthering knowledge in the physical,
biological, and other natural sciences and engineering. LSU Physics professor
Jerry Draayer currently serves as
president of SURA and Harold Silverman
serves on the SURA Board of Trustees. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility (Jefferson Lab, www.jlab.org),
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE, www.doe.gov),
is managed under contract by SURA.
Universities Research Association (URA)
The URA (www.ura-hq.org/) is a consortium
of 89 leading research-oriented universities primarily in the United States,
with members also in Canada, Japan, and Italy. At the behest of President
Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy
of Sciences, the not-for-profit URA corporation was founded in 1965 for
management and operation of research facilities in the national interest.
Presidents of participating universities organized their scientific and
administrative talent toward this end, within the URA governing structure.
URA’s charter is "...to acquire, plan, construct, and operate
machines, laboratories, and other facilities, under contract with the Government
of the United States or otherwise, for research, development and education
in the physical and biological sciences... and to educate and train technical,
research and student personnel in said sciences." Since January 1967,
URA has been the prime contractor to the Department of Energy for the creation
and operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (www.fnal.gov/)
near Batavia, Illinois. Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, the world’s
highest-energy accelerator for elementary particle physics research.
