The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research sponsors internal funding programs that provide faculty members with initial seed money for new research projects that show strong potential for subsequent external funding. Increasingly, these programs also encourage research collaborations with faculty at IU Bloomington and Purdue West Lafayette. New programs launched in 2007-2008 include the Release Time for Research Internal Funding Program and the Intercampus Applied Research Program, jointly funded by IUPUI and Purdue University. Two new research groups, the Energy Frontiers Research Group and the Environmental Science and Energy Research Group, join several existing institutes and centers supported by IUPUI and IU Bloomington to stimulate intercampus research and scholarly activity. The Research Office has also revised and strengthened the existing Research Support Funds Grant.
The Center for Research and Learning, which supports undergraduate student research, has been reorganized to strengthen the career pipeline for new researchers and fortify the strategic relationship between undergraduate research programs and faculty research projects at IUPUI. The center now reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Research.
