TRED Annual Report FY2018

NSU OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS—PFRDG 14 Summary of PFRDG Annual Outcomes Fiscal Year Presentations Patents Submitted/ Accepted Publications External Grant Proposals Submitted/Funded External Grants Total 2001 26 0 8 4/2 $98,000 2002 29 0 11 8/3 $622,481 2003 43 0 28 7/6 $247,472 2004 18 0 14 6/3 $197,582 2005 43 0 20 4/2 $50,000 2006 22 0 7 1/0 $0 2007 20 0 6 4/3 $356,449 2008 34 0 31 11/2 $206,899 2009 25 0 23 11/4 $316,949 2010 46 3/1 32 12/5 $509,837 2011 39 0 43 25/9 $316,398 2012 64 0 29 7/1 $10,000 2013 54 0 26 20/9 $789,471 2014 109 1/0 23 38/9 $4,399,740 2015 61 0 7 18/4 $1,377,955 Total 633 4/1 308 176/62 $9,499,233 PRESIDENT’S FACULTY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM The President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) program, established in 1999, has been successful in meeting its goals of fostering inquiry, research, and creative professional activity at Nova Southeastern University. Since the beginning of the PFRDG program, the NSU Board of Trustees has allocated more than $2 million to support and sustain this university initiative. For each award given, 50 percent of the funding comes from interest generated from the allocation, while the other 50 percent comes from the winning faculty members’ colleges. PFRDG funding complements existing resources for faculty support in the academic units by providing seed money for a new research area for which external funding will be sought or by expanding current research to a new level of competitiveness for external funding. In 2018, a new PFRDG track was added to support a small number of scholarly research projects contributing to general knowledge of the discipline but for which external funding is not an expected outcome. Each spring, NSU faculty members across the university compete for these grants that award up to $15,000. In the 19-year history of these awards, faculty members and students have shared $4,568,908 in financial support. Grant winners have come from each of the university’s academic units. As reflected in the following table, the number of presentations, publications, and external funding proposals submitted and funded are a direct result of this program since its inception.