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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sent on behalf of Parker Antin. Please note the deadline of
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Neal Armstrong, Associate Vice President for Research, has requested faculty input in key areas related to analytics and informatics support at the UA, and mechanisms to foster collaboration between computation/information and domain science
faculty for pursing new opportunities. Additional information is below. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is an opportunity to provide viewpoints that can impact future research initiatives. Please consider contributing your perspective to the conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Parker Antin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#130677">Parker B. Antin, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#130677">Associate Dean for Research</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#130677"> College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Noble, Melynda - (melnoble) <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 07, 2015 3:38 PM<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Armstrong, Neal R - (nra) <<a href="mailto:nra@email.arizona.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">nra@email.arizona.edu</span></a>>; Merchant, Nirav C - (nirav) <<a href="mailto:nirav@email.arizona.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">nirav@email.arizona.edu</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Strategic Planning Workshop Follow Up<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At the end of the summer, the Office for Research & Discovery hosted a series of strategic planning workshops, Road mapping Retreats, in which two recurring theme emerged from
several of the sessions: The need for improved analytics and informatics support at the UofA, and the need for mechanisms that foster collaborations between computation/information and domain science faculty for pursuing new opportunities.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With this in mind, we are requesting input from three broad UA communities: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(1) Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Math/Statistics (Computer Science, MIS etc., Electrical Eng. etc. )</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The intention is to obtain and the collective point of view and community needs and distill them into a brief (2 page of less per community) document, that would be synthesized
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Realizing that meeting in person for these large communities is going to be challenging, we have created three open access google docs with some guidelines and suggestions for
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CKvyz8uSfDftP8ChSq0EQbIEULxO1_5My0gWT2v75QY/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="color:#954F72">CISE/Math/Statistics community page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HnVzfE1sid06lNqXSMHRSYwdwc1gNTHQYqCnaP8yImg/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="color:#954F72">Domain Sciences community page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ggewr6Xe5Wnkgb8mVfPJkj6Tzl_qK16TgQFFoy422RE/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="color:#954F72"> Institutional/Department infrastructure
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Please provide your input by Dec. 14th 2015.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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