Vice President for Research

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**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***., among the nation’s most ambitious and renowned private research universities and a member of the American Association of Universities (AAU), seeks a transformative and visionary scholar-leader and deft administrator to serve as its next Vice President for Research (VPR). As the University's chief research officer, the VPR oversees the institution’s internal and external research enterprise and serves as chief proselytizer for Rice’s scholarly and societal impact locally, nationally, and internationally. The VPR will partner with **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.’s senior leadership as a member of the President’s Cabinet and in close collaboration with the Provost and with the newly-created Vice President for Innovation (VPI); and—together with deans, faculty, and staff throughout the institution—will strengthen the University’s research infrastructure and propel Rice’s research productivity to new heights. The VPR will join the Rice community at an exciting and momentous inflection point in the University’s august history, as current Provost and incoming President Reginald DesRoches seeks to evolve the institution through key senior leadership recruitments, all while devoting considerable resources to transforming **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. into a center of impactful and broad-based interdisciplinary research that retains a deep commitment to pedagogy and the student experience.
Centrally located in America’s most diverse city and proximate to the Texas Medical Center—the world’s largest academic medical complex—**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a tier one research university dedicated to scholarship addressing the world’s most urgent problems, rigorous undergraduate and graduate education, and professional training in selected disciplines. Rice’s community comprises over 930 faculty who are devoted to the instruction and training of approximately 4,800 undergraduate students and 3,300 graduate and professional students across eight schools of academic study. In 2022,
U.S. News & World Report
ranked Rice 17
th
among national universities and 8
th
for undergraduate education. Rice faculty conduct world-class research across more than 100 different centers and institutes and have grown sponsored research awards over 50% in the last seven years, bringing in $181.9 million in sponsored research in FY2021 and positioning Rice to surpass its strategic goal of doubling research spending by 2027. The preponderance of Rice’s research funding derives from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and various foundations. The University has recently made key capacity-building investments to expand its funding base and revenue streams under the next VPR, who will promote the development of new projects, contracts, and grants at an unprecedented scale and who will advocate for the resources, infrastructure, and staff needed to catalyze and sustain this growth.
As a cabinet-level position reporting directly to the incoming President, the Vice President for Research will work closely and collaboratively with key University leaders to advance Rice’s research mission, while supporting faculty in their individual and collective research aspirations across disciplines. Together with the University’s communications and federal relations team, the VPR will take on a more robust external role in promoting the University’s research capacity with external partners, including federal funding agencies in Washington, D.C., federally-funded research and development centers (FFRDC’s) with whom the University may be in constellation, other academic institutions aligned with Rice’s overarching research goals, and major industrial partners. To aggressively grow and diversify **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.’s federal funding profile, the VPR is expected to be deeply connected with the federal funding landscape in Washington, D.C. and will position **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. more prominently before external funding agencies. The VPR will have a deep understanding of the ways in which IP, policies, and funds flows influence or constrain a future-oriented and pioneering academic research enterprise and will make tactical and strategic investments to position Rice ahead of its peers in terms of its scalability and its highest scholarly ambitions.
**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. has retained Isaacson, Miller to assist with this important search. Vivian Brocard and Vijay Saraswat are leading this search with Damla Williams and with support from Kimberly Ho. Confidential applications, inquiries, and nominations should be directed to the search firm at ******MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.

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