Seven teams of researchers from across Colorado State University will be working together on some of our most pressing global problems, thanks to innovative investments from the Office of the Vice President of Research.

“The ability to use scientific discoveries to drive technological solutions to our most pressing global problems will require the integration of multiple disciplines and the formation of innovative partnerships across sectors,” said Alan Rudolph, Vice President for Research.

In the fall of this year, the OVPR at CSU has launched a new program entitled Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships (CIP). The new program seeks to build innovative multidisciplinary teams that will forge partnerships designed to optimally pursue new opportunities for translating discoveries into practice.

Teams will be seeded with a critical mass of funding up to $200,000 for two years and provided infrastructural support to seek partners and resources to create and deliver novel solutions for some of our most important problems. These relationships will nurture the creation and delivery of solutions in energy, health, and the environment.

“We are excited about this new program and the tremendous response we have received across campus,” said Rudolph. “The Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships investments were created to encourage research teams to collaborate with new partners and find innovative ways to solve complicated, global problems in line with our rich land-grant heritage.”