Research

• Develop a faculty, staff and student research program
• Implement functional and relevant research programs
• Develop and manage technologies and information
• Establish and upgrade research facilities/centers
• Enhance the fiscal resource base for research services

STRATEGIES

• Develop and implement a comprehensive college-based R and D agenda in the University
• Aggressively encourage program/commodity/ecosystem-based trans-disciplinary research and enhance faculty-staff-student and junior-senior research partnerships
• Align Undergraduate and Graduate theses and postdoctoral researches to a specific college-based R and D agenda in the University
• Encourage faculty members to adopt research methods as teaching strategies
• Conduct an intensive faculty, staff and student R and D capability development program
• Provide seed money and other incentives to researchers such as in paper presentations and publications in refereed journals
• Produce a compendium of faculty, staff and student researches on a yearly basis
• Implement a knowledge and technology management program
• Establish and Implement an R and D facility modernization program
• Collaborate with relevant local, national and international R and D agencies in technology generation to commercialization
• Enhance monitoring and evaluation activities
• Use judiciously research fiscal resources
• Strengthen research, extension and production interfacing activities