{"id":123351,"date":"2021-10-05T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=123351"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:53:19","slug":"new-resource-makes-it-easier-to-find-research-collaborators-across-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/new-resource-makes-it-easier-to-find-research-collaborators-across-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resource Makes It Easier to Find Research Collaborators Across Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Office of the Provost and the Office of Research have partnered to provide those conducting research and creative works at UCF a new resource \u2014 the Scholar Expertise Portal.<\/p>\n

The portal allows faculty and students to see what kind of research and creative works their fellow colleagues are working on. You can search by individual faculty name or by topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe true power of this portal comes for the ability to search topics or themes,\u201d says Elizabeth Klonoff, vice president for Research. \u201cWe hope faculty and students will use it to find potential collaborators and synergies across disciplines to enhance research capacity. This is one of the tools we can use to help build interdisciplinary teams to tackle challenges that don\u2019t lend themselves to one-discipline solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jana Jasinski, vice provost for Faculty Excellence, says the portal aligns with President Alexander N. Cartwright\u2019s vision of becoming the world\u2019s leading public metropolitan research university.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt UCF we recruit top scholars and researchers, and this is one way of showing our community the impact of what our faculty do,\u201d says Jasinski. \u201cThis portal also provides an easy place to access their accomplishments for award and grant applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

The portal also gives users a quick snapshot of UCF\u2019s overall research related numbers. Other data reported:<\/p>\n