TRIF Initiatives
The Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) is a special investment in higher education made possible by the passage of a special ballot proposition (Education 2000, also known as Proposition 301) in November 2000. Proceeds from a six-tenths of a cent increase in state sales tax are apportioned (for 20 years from the passage of Proposition 301) to statewide education at all levels. The University portion is TRIF, and each of the three Arizona universities is investing their allocations differently. More information about systemwide TRIF investments can be found on the Arizona Board of Regents website.
EXISTING INITIATIVES IN FY 2006
- Anyplace Access for Arizonans
- BIO5
- Critical Core Infrastructure
- Optical Sciences and Technology Initiative
- Technology Transfer Infrastructure
- Water Sustainability
- Workforce Initiative: The Educator Development Plan
INITIATIVES ESTABLISHED IN FY 2007
- Arizona Clinical and Translational Research and Educational Consortium(ACTREC)
- ACTREC will create multidisciplinary clinical and translational research teams, will develop statewide models of best practices for clinical research, and will facilitate linkage of these initiatives to the community through telemedecine and other technologies. ACTREC will promote application of biomedical informatics, biomedical imaging, molecular therapeutics, and other enabling technologies to this task. ACTREC will also develop new and complementary structures for training and financial support of teams of clinical and translational investigators, and for awarding advanced degrees. This effort will engage partners throughout the state, including universities, research institutes, and health care providers. TRIF funds will be used to develop the infrastructure necessary to be competitive for a full CTSA from the NIH.
- College of Nursing Online Graduate Degree and Certificate Programs
- This is a program to sustain and enhance online delivery of the PhD, Nurse Practitioner(MS), Graduate Certificate, and DNP programs through support of the virtual research environment, ongoing course development and refinement, ongoing technical assistance for students and faculty, and online advising and admission for students.
- McKnight Brain Institute
- ABOR recently approved the creation of a new Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, funded initially by a $5.0 million award from The McKnight Brain Research Foundation. The award was made to Dr. Carol Barnes in the Arizona Research Laboratories to support the work of her team and the teams of six other neuroscience faculty studying the biological mechanisms underlying normal aging of the brain. The new Institute will develop tools that will enable an understanding of the aging brain, and implement these tools in cutting-edge studies that will characterize the nature of brain changes during normal aging. The Institute will support research and serve as a focal point for cross-disciplinary interactions at the university, state, and national levels.