Research Programs Executive Director
Nancy Bulger
[email protected]
(530) 752-8717
Nancy is responsible for the programmatic oversight of the interdisciplinary research units that report to the Office of Research. She provides strategic guidance and advice to the Vice Chancellor for Research & the Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives relative to strategic academic and resource planning, short and long-range policy development, communications and high-level analyses of new program development.
Previously, she served as Purdue University’s assistant provost and was responsible for the strategic planning and assessment of academic areas at Purdue; served as a liaison to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education; liaison to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference; and provided oversight of special initiatives for the provost. Prior to her appointment to assistant provost, she had served as administrative director for a number of federally grant-funded centers, including the NASA University Research, Education; Technology Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing; NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Manufacturing; NSF MRSEC for Technology Enabling Heterostructures and the 21st Century Center for Nanoscale Electronic / Biological Devices. As the administrative director of these and other centers, Nancy managed cross-disciplinary programs in research, education, and technology transfer involving over 60 companies, 85 professors, 1,200 students, and research grants totaling over $75 million. She was also a Co-PI for the nanoHUB/Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) which has been awarded over $40M funding from NSF. Nancy received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University.
