With more than $900 million in annual R&D expenditures, Penn is one of the nation’s top research universities, not only generating important new knowledge in the fields of medicine, technology, business, science, and beyond, but applying this knowledge to improve the lines of individuals and communities at home and around the world. Innovative research that yields actionable knowledge is one of the cornerstones of Penn Compact 2020, President Gutmann’s vision for the future of the University.
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Today, Penn, the same research enterprise that created ENIAC in the late 1940s, the world’s fist all-electronic computer, is booming. Top researchers provide imagination and creativity. Penn provides the cutting-edge resources and infrastructure. This leads to novel inventions that hold promise to change the world.
Learn MoreThe Vice Provost for Research is an advisor to the Provost and has oversight of the University’s vast research enterprise, encompassing a broad spectrum of research support services, regulatory bodies, multi-disciplinary campus-wide Centers and Institutes, and partnerships to further develop investigator inventions. OVPR collaborates with Penn constituents and external partners to promote meaningful scholarship, uphold research integrity, and foster new discoveries.
The investigative collaborations that take place at Penn represent some of today’s most cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. Explore the 142 centers and institutes that are generating new knowledge all over campus, and learn about the powerful impact this Penn-generated knowledge is making in all corners of the world.
The Office of the Vice Provost (OVPR) is charged with oversight responsibility for multiple regulatory compliance areas at Penn. Given the breadth of regulations and guidelines, research compliance is a shared responsibility between numerous University offices.
The Office of Vice Provost for Research manages a number of internal funding opportunities on behalf of the University as well as access to external funding opportunities.
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Every day, research activities at Penn result in exciting scientific breakthroughs and technological advances that have commercial potential. PCI works in partnership with Penn faculty, staff and students to advance these discoveries and ideas towards new products, services and/or businesses that provide benefits back to Penn, its inventors and society.
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As one of the world’s leading research universities, Penn has an array of faculty conducting cutting-edge research in all disciplines. The Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships helps Penn undergraduates become involved in research by teaching them how to identify resources, narrow their searches, and shape their initial inquiries in order to find appropriate faculty mentors and research funding.
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