{"id":128148,"date":"2017-08-01T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=128148"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:39:12","slug":"new-associate-dean-sees-bigger-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/08\/new-associate-dean-sees-bigger-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"New associate dean sees a bigger picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For CAHNR\u2019s newest associate dean, this position is about increasing the scale of his life\u2019s work. Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/animalscience.uconn.edu\/faculty\/Kumar%20Venkitanarayanan.php\">Kumar Venkitanarayanan<\/a>\u00a0has demonstrated success in obtaining research grants, supervising graduate students through to completion and supporting CAHNR as a team leader and player. \u201cNow, I can use all my skills and experience and do it on a bigger canvas for the College,\u201d he said about the new role he started in May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty is part of the picture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The portrait that he wants to paint as associate dean will include two main subjects, reflecting the \u201cresearch\u201d and \u201cgraduate studies\u201d in his title. For example, Venkitanarayanan hopes to provide CAHNR\u2019s research faculty members with increased funding opportunities to help them reach their goals in spite of the current economy. \u201cI want to make it easy for them,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of his solutions for budgetary constraints is to \u201cspread our wings wider.\u201d This means he wants to identify previously overlooked programs, to apply for grants offered by different federal agencies and to cooperate with other universities in seeking funds. He thinks that the College has enjoyed much success with USDA grants, but it needs to diversify to improve the probability of receiving funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturally.uconn.edu\/2017\/08\/01\/new-associate-dean-sees-a-bigger-picture\/#more-9652\">Read the full article at Naturaly@UConn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For CAHNR\u2019s newest associate dean, this position is about increasing the scale of his life\u2019s work. Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies\u00a0Kumar Venkitanarayanan\u00a0has demonstrated success in obtaining research grants, supervising graduate students through to completion and supporting CAHNR as a team leader and player. \u201cNow, I can use all my skills and experience and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":128149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1871],"class_list":["post-128148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:22:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/128149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128148"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=128148"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=128148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}