We really value new investigators at UB-after all, they're the next generation of researchers here. The other thing is intellectual property and computing issues. We're going to have booths at the festival for most facilities at UB that support research-the instrumentation centers, the scanning electron microscope, the supercomputing center. We're also going to have poster sessions by new investigators across all research and creative areas. An interesting question, and a much more complex question than one might think.
Government works on an award model and academia works on an expenditure model.
I think we ought to be thinking about doubling our research expenditure between five to seven years from now. It may seem overly ambitious, but given the incredible breadth and interdisciplinary activity that's going on here, as we improve the processes by which people interact and learn what each other is doing, we're going to be able to compete for larger and larger awards. Because I came from the Johns Hopkins medical school, there was a certain level of expectation about how independent you were supposed to be as a researcher. That expectation was that you were supposed to bring in all the money you needed to bring in to cover your salary, to cover all the salaries of everybody working under you, and all of the money you needed to do your research. It was in a way an entrepreneurial approach to doing science.