The Goals
• To set the standard against which other top departments are
measured
• To be a truly distinguished department among those in public
universities in the United States.
• To train the leaders of tomorrow while making contributions
that transform Texas and the world today
The Challenge
There are a number of critical and interrelated objectives that must be achieved
to reach our goals. We must increase the size of our faculty to meet our teaching
and research obligations. We must recruit outstanding and diverse faculty
members from all over the world, especially at the assistant professor rank,
and provide them with all of the resources they need to succeed at the highest
levels. We must provide an environment that encourages faculty to stay at
UT-Austin, even when presented with tempting offers to leave. We must
provide funds to encourage and support high risk/high reward research. We
must also provide funds to acquire advanced instrumentation required for all
contemporary research activities within the department. We must recruit the
very best graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all over the world
and provide them with unparalleled opportunities for research. We must have
state-of-the-art instructional and research facilities. We must provide the best
possible education for our undergraduate and graduate students.
The Plan
• We will increase the size of the faculty by 10, to a total of 55, following
the recommendation of our External Review Committee in 2006. This
increase will reduce undergraduate student/faculty ratios and allow
growth in new areas.
• We will seek faculty candidates of exceptional promise in areas that span
the traditional chemistry and biochemistry divisions and will focus our
hiring efforts to create a critical mass in new areas of research that are
promising and which build on existing strengths.
• New interdisciplinary initiatives will include: the interface between
chemistry and biology; nanoscience; the synthesis and characterization of
new materials; sustainable energy; and green chemistry.
• We will vigorously address faculty retention. What took 30 to 40 years
to achieve can be lost in as little as 5 to 10 years without careful and
consistent attention to this important issue.
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