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The Office of Research facilitates research and development across the UC system and provides support to faculty and researchers at our ten campuses and three UC-managed National Laboratories.

Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Steven Beckwith leads the Office of Research in these major activities:

  • Develops University positions on major policy issues related to research;
  • Identifies and develops major research opportunities and initiatives, and provides mechanisms to facilitate them;
  • Coordinates activities in Sacramento and Washington D.C., concerning state and federal research projects and legislative matters related to research
  • Establishes and oversees the University's policies relating to research and extramural funding programs;
  • Fosters research collaboration between the campuses and UC-managed laboratories;
  • Administration and review of Multicampus Research Units and Programs;
  • Coordinates and staffs meetings of the systemwide Council of Vice Chancellors for Research and the Council on Research.
  • Demonstrates the economic benefits and social utility of research to California and the nation.
 

    What's New!   

CSEM Policy Conference
Multicampus Research Program RFP

CSEM Policy Conference Lab Research Program RFP

CSEM Policy Conference WMRS FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY                                           CSEM Policy Conference Review/Approval Requirements for Research Proposals Seeking Funding from Tobacco-Industry Sponsors - Guidance to Campuses re: Implementing RE-89 (February 2008); and Guidance on Determining if a Sponsor is a Tobacco-Industry Sponsor.                              
Pacific Rim Currents
POWER Research Conference on Electricity Markets and Regulation in Berkeley on March 21, 2008 – for more information click here.

link to responses to NSF survey
UC Responses to 2007 NSF Survey of R&D Expenditures

link to new NSF publication The Office of Research welcomes the UC-Cuba Academic Initiative to its multicampus research family.

link to new NSF publication New Matrix Showing Retention and Disposition Requirements for Administrative Records Related to Research

link to new NSF publication New UC Guidelines on Non-Competitive Funding

link to new NSF publication  ICMJE Requires Registration of Clinical Trials: Important Information for Investigators

link to new NSF publication  Proposition 71:

Stem Cell Research Initiative

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