Collaborations and partnerships facilitated by each college, including:

• University's Business Gateway established in Innovation Research Park (IRP).
• The Center for Innovative Transportation Solutions (CITS) established in Town Center, City of Virginia Beach, & 2012 University Transportation Centers 'Tier 1' grant.
• Interdisciplinary Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise Initiative (CCSLRI) launched in 2010.
• The Life in Hampton Roads survey.
• Establishment of the Center for Educational Partnerships and Teacher Immersion Residency (ODU-TIR) Project. The Center for Educational Partnerships (TCEP) was established and awarded a $25million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant.
• TEAMS (Teaching, Education, and Awareness for Military-connectedtudents) initiative, a collaboration between DCOE and Newport News Public Schools
• CoHS: Established a Center for Global Health with Physicians for Peace and Operation Smile as partners

• Funding to support study of potential partnership with Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) to create the Commonwealth's first School of Public Health.
• New articulation agreements with Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) in computer science and computer engineering, and other STEM areas.
• MOU with Newport News Shipyard Apprentice School (NNAS) to launch BS Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering cohorts 2013 or 2014.

Each college collaborated with public, private, corporate, and/or nonprofit agencies to spur economic growth and provide applications for research. High-profile developments include:

• The Business Gateway offers Veterans' Assistance, and in collaboration with the colleges, a Technology Applications Center, Modeling and Simulation (VMASC), Nanotechnology, Bioelectrics, Procurement Assistance, Women's Business Development Center, and more.
• BCET and VMASC researchers relocated to the Center for Innovative Transportation Solutions (CITS) at Town Center in the City of Virginia Beach, partially supported by a federal 2012 University Transportation Centers 'Tier 1' grant.
• The interdisciplinary Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise Initiative (CCSLRI) was established and hosts forums, sponsors research, provides public education, and has gained national as well as regional visibility.
• The annual Life in Hampton Roads survey conducted by the Social Science Research Center (SSRC) is used by government and nonprofit agencies, among others.
• The Center for Educational Partnerships (TCEP) establishes collaborative educational enterprises with schools and school divisions in Hampton Roads and Greater Virginia; the ODU-Teacher Immersion Residency (TIR) Project is a three-semester master's and licensure program including yearlong residency in Norfolk and Portsmouth public school divisions. TCEP established and filled two additional research associate positions http://education.odu.edu/tcep/ and another $1.1million will match a $25million grant from the US Department of Education.

• TEAMS initiative, with John Nunnery, executive director of the Center for Educational Partnerships.
• Center for Global Health

• Establishment of Sentara Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research, for which a search is in progress.
• Funding for the Bioelectrics Research Program.
• The Center for Educational Partnerships (TCEP) hired research associates.
• ED's Investing in Innovation (i3) project.
• Support for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA).
• Slover funds support the salaries of at least two tenured faculty members in the Ocean Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (OEAS) department annually.
• Since 2009-10, a net gain of more than 60 tenured and tenure-track instructional faculty positions; start-up packages for these positions provided and/or increased for all six colleges.
• Critical Issues Fund annually supports research initiatives critical to Hampton Roads, including the Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative (CCSLRI) and Life in Hampton Roads Survey

• Efforts are underway to establish an Endowed Professorship in Maritime/Supply Chain Management, an Endowed Professorship in Accounting, and colleges have included requests for Endowed Chairs in their Development Plans

• The Endowed Chair in Bioelectrics ($2 million) will focus on heart research in partnership with Sentara; $2.6 mil additional funds raised for Bioelectrics Research
• TCEP established and filled two additional research associate positions
• $1.1 million will match a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education - Investment in Innovation
• Dr. Kent Carpenter of Biological Sciences leads the international effort for Global Marine Species Assessment
• Slover funding supports two faculty positions in OEAS and graduate student research efforts
• Over five years, 160 new tenure-track faculty were hired and provided start-up packages; each academic college and the Research Foundation participated in new tenure track
• $500,000 for research initiatives critical to Hampton Roads: CCSLRI and SSRC
  

• Three colleges (CBPA, BCET, & CoHS) developed faculty workload guidelines.

Unmet

• Three academic colleges unable to make workload adjustments, aside from those associated with new hire start-up packages, due to funding issues.

• Faculty Activity System implemented, strengthening ability to analyze, evaluate and adjust workloads.

Seed funding for multidisciplinary research includes SEECR and MSF, with $292,588 expended for these two in FY13. There are two single-investigator programs with $114,950 expended in FY13.

• The National Center for System of Systems (NCSOSE) was elevated to the status of enterprise center.
• Industrial and Scientific Research Center established by the STEMP Department in partnership with Business Gateway.
• Established Maritime & Supply Chain Management area within IT/Decision Sciences and named an area coordinator; funding approved for a new tenure track position.
• Improved total R&D ranking among all public institutions (moving ahead 35 positions to 146) and among those without medical schools (moving ahead by 16 positions to 55).
• Overall Research and Development funding

• Establishment of a university-wide Center in support of CCSLRI; new director hired and Center to be set up June 2013.

• Summer Experience Enhancing Collaborative Research (SEECR)
• Multidisciplinary Seed Funding (MSF)
• Business Gateway; The National Center for System of Systems Engineering (NCSOSE)
• ]The Center for Educational Partnerships (TCEP) hired an Assistant Director for Communication & Learning Technology, and a Business Officer
• Industrial and Scientific Research Center
• CBPA Dept. of Information Technology's Maritime & Supply Chain Management program http://ww2.bpa.odu.edu/mscm/advisor.shtml.
• CCLRI
• R&D funding

• DCOE upgrades for research work
• ITS upgrades of the HPC Mass Storage and a migration of data from old to new systems underway.
• Committees formed to coordinate renovations and repairs to the OCNPS building, and plan for a new Biology/Chemistry building.
• $3.5 million raised to support a new Art Building and Studio Art Building
• Expansion of Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Building to support scholarly work on visual and creative arts
• Final stages of construction approval for a new building to house the DCOE
• A Master Plan process was launched to review all of the university's physical facilities.

• DCOE created two TeachLive Labs, repurposed two classrooms to serve as graduate research computer lab and as a Career and Academic Resource Center (CARC); a Dissertation Defense Seminar Room has also been set up.
• ODU Master Plan