1/20/2012: It’s currently 42%, the lowest in the AAU, I believe. 45% is still very low. I think it was 50% when I got my first NSF grant here, falling ever since. Memo from VP for Res Kim Espy here. Obviously they tried very hard to boost it, paid a…
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4/26/2010: Read it all. Full text here. This is an astoundingly revealing letter to the UO research community, from VP for Research Rich Linton and VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke. Both senior administrators are now leaving their jobs. Linton was fired did not have his contract renewed by…
11/8/2010: We’ve written before about how UO’s VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke blew $2.4 million remodeling Johnson Hall back in 2007. This led to a cut of millions per year in federal research money, when UO couldn’t show the feds it was spending enough money on research support…
7/15/2010: We’ve written before about the chaos at ORSA. Paula Roberts is now gone, and apparently ORSA is now being run by Moira Kiltie and 2 consultants from Huron Consulting: Tim Patterson and Marisa Zuskar. On the ORSA staff website here. Rumor is Frances Dyke is paying Huron $250 an…
7/12/2010: Juliana Kyrk retired this year, and the job ad is out for her replacement: Director, Human Research Protection ProgramOffice for Protection of Human SubjectsPay Range: $80,000 – $100,000 This position will report to the Assistant Vice President, Responsible Conduct of Research who also serves as the University’s Institutional Official.…
7/2/2010: Rich Linton is a finalist for the VP for Research job at PSU. Thanks to a reader for the tip. Their admirably transparent search info is here. His cover letter says: If there is any concern about my changing allegiances within the State of Oregon, I will speak most…
6/11/2010: Two weeks ago VP for Research Rich Linton was told he would get a terminal contract. Today, rumor has it that Associate Vice President of Research and Director of ORSA Paula Roberts was fired by Provost Jim Bean, and that this was the direct result of pressure from “irate”…
update from Anonymous: It is a sad day at the University of Oregon when an administrator with the integrity and character of Rich Linton decides it’s time to leave. As Roast Duck says, he is a classy guy. While significantly elevating the profile of research, Rich always worked toward the…
Update: Linton’s own public statement is here: It is satisfying for me to leave knowing that the UO has seen increasing research accomplishments by its faculty, including sustained growth in sponsored research funding, interdisciplinary research initiatives and innovations supporting technology transfer and development. I am deeply grateful for our faculty,…
3/30/2010: We’ve written before about how UO is no longer a top-tier Carnegie research school, and about how our federal research credit rate was cut, after Frances Dyke spent the money remodeling Johnson Hall instead of on research labs. But this news really hits us where it hurts.
10/27/2009: We’re slowly piecing together the story about why UO’s ICC rate was cut from 50 to 48 to 42%. Rich Linton had apparently seen this coming, and had taken 0.5% cuts (the default) for several years, rather than face a full review. But he could not postpone past 2008,…
10/6/2009 update: We hear from many disparate sources that this $4 million screw-up came from Frances Dyke’s office, not from Rich Linton’s. Version A is that Frances did not take the DHHS documentation request seriously, and did not submit sufficient documentation. Version B is that Frances took the DHHS documentation…