Cal, which got $606.6 million in research money in fiscal 2008, up 20 percent from the year before.

San Francisco Business Times - April 2, 2009
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Thursday, April 2, 2009, 2:04pm PDT | Modified: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 3:03pm
Cal taps new research funds bossSan Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown
U.C. Berkeley named Graham Fleming vice chancellor of research, overseeing all federal, state and private funds given to the school for such work.

Fleming, 59, moves over from director of the Berkeley parts of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or QB3. He steps into the shoes of Beth Burnside, who left the vice chancellor of research job in October after seven years and 10 months to return to teaching.

The job is a major one at Cal, which got $606.6 million in research money in fiscal 2008, up 20 percent from the year before. Oil giant BP plc also gave Berkeley $350 million over 10 years for energy research.

Some $14 billion has been set aside in the federal stimulus package for science research, and Fleming’s job, which he started on Wednesday, will be to fight for a chunk of that money for Cal.

In the past, Fleming, a chemistry professor, was deputy director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the hills above the Cal campus.

QB3, Fleming’s former bailiwick, has turned into the No. 2 external research money-spinner for the university, paying support for 83 faculty at U.C. Berkeley.

Fleming’s own work has been on using lasers to study the chemistry of photosynthesis.

Born in the United Kingdom, Fleming studied at the University of Bristol and the University of London. He worked 18 years at the University of Chicago before being lured to Cal in 1997 by the promise that he could create a new research unit at Berkeley Lab.

His salary in this job will be $300,000.





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