Research
Leading Interdisciplinary Partnerships to Address Global Challenges
Grounded
in a tradition of engagement with the world, Northeastern is a leader in
use-inspired research that addresses the critical issues facing society. In a
shifting global landscape, discovering solutions to increasingly complex
challenges will require the collaborative efforts of multidisciplinary research
teams working in partnerships that span countries and continents.
Under
the Long Range Plan, we will advance new faculty collaborations and expanded institutional
partnerships around the world to cultivate groundbreaking discoveries, with particular
emphasis on the themes of health, security, and sustainability.
Goals
- Global, interdisciplinary research that attracts the
best graduate students and invigorates the undergraduate curriculum
- Leadership in establishing interdisciplinary research
programs aligned with our research priorities, advanced by faculty recruiting
and leadership
- External funding at a level that sustains our
research programs
- Continued integration of research with technology commercialization
to produce high-value intellectual property that fulfills our research mission
Action
Steps
- Develop clusters of faculty expertise aligned with
our research themes of health, security, and sustainability
- Advance our successful faculty hiring strategies in support
of existing and emerging areas of research strength
- Strengthen technology transfer to boost the impact of
discoveries
- Expand technology systems and resources to support faculty
and student research
- Build new global research partnerships with
government, industry, and other educational institutions
- Broaden undergraduate research opportunities
- Add new master's and PhD programs connected to emerging
fields
- Reorganize the Office of Research Administration and Finance
to provide the services required to facilitate research goals
Selected
Metrics
- Number of research awards
- Publications in high-profile journals
- Number of faculty members delivering invited and plenary
talks at academic conferences
- Investigators serving on prominent national and international
committees
- Invention disclosures and patents filed
- New companies formed
