• Fellowship Overview
• The Fellows
• The Mentors
• Application

The UC Discovery Fellowship

Fellowship Overview

The goal of the UC Discovery Fellowship is to develop a new cadre of professionals within the University of California campuses and UC-affiliated Department of Energy National Laboratories to provide leadership in building diverse linkages between research and California's R&D economy.

The UC Discovery Fellowship builds new capacity to advance the University of California's public service mission and to strengthen California's R&D economy through accelerating the delivery of benefits from publicly funded research in science, engineering, and other relevant disciplines.

About the UC Discovery Fellowship

What's needed for UC to excel

• Building a partnership culture for creating, transferring, and applying knowledge to produce public dividends: research, development, and delivery (RD&D)
• Emphasizing communication and collaboration among UC Campuses, National Labs, Industry, and Government
• Promoting integrated, streamlined processes

UC Discovery Fellowship Strategy

• Create a cadre of professionals who work with campus/Lab leaders to build sustainable industry-university research relationships
• Leverage existing infrastructure and build integrated, cross-functional operations that insure effective management of industry-university research relationships
• Communicate the opportunities for high impact research and the benefits of industry-university partnerships
• Catalyze change at the campus and system levels

UC Discovery Fellowship Goals

• Produce a group of future leaders
• Broadly expand the role of publicly funded research in the economy
• Strengthen the administrative capacity of Host Campuses/Labs to build and sustain industry-university research partnerships
• Increase faculty and industry understanding of the benefits of research partnerships and how they can be maximized
• Develop meaningful measures of success and impact

UC Discovery Fellowship Elements, 2007-2008

• Eight to Ten Day Immersion Seminar
  • Tentatively scheduled for early September 2008 in San Diego
• 12 month Campus/Laboratory Assignments
  • Mentor provides professional development program
  • Fellow works with a major, new research center
• 4 quarterly retreats for Fellows and Mentors
  • Tentatively scheduled for November 2008 and January, April & June 2009