Research and Teaching Interactions in the Department of Biology.

Research and Teaching Interactionsin the Department of Biology

Research and Teaching Interactionsin the Department of Biology

Graphics courtesy of Silvia Alvarez

Dissertation Research on Social Interactions of Primates

Responses:

29 Tenured / Tenure-track faculty4 Instructional faculty

Did Not Respond:

5 Tenured / Tenure-track faculty2 Instructional faculty

Spatial Scope:

Geographically constrained to UMCP and nearby institutionsLong distance collaborations NOT included

Data Type

Strength of Interaction (% of Effort)Colleagues outside Biology aggregated by affiliation

What data were available ?

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

InsideBiologyOnly

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

InsideBiologyOnly

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

AllLocalInteractions

Some network analyses

Intensity of interactions appear in two ways

• Width of links proportional to intensity

• Low intensity interactions greater spatial separation

Compact clusters interact more closely

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

GedanDid not respond

No reported interactions

AdesComptonHigginsMachadoReakaVia

CohenFensterPayneQuinlanSoares

Alternative Ways of Subsetting Biology

Website (3 groups with overlap):

External Review (5 groups / primary affiliation):

Ecology, Evolution & Behavior

Neurobiology, Biophysics & Development

Evolutionary Developmental Biology

BioPhysics

Evo-DevoEvolutionary GeneticsNeuroscience

Ecology

WebsiteEcology, Evolution & BehaviorNeurobiology, Biophysics & DevelopmentEvolutionary Developmental BiologyAffiliates/Institutions

OtherBio Research Assoc.

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

No reported interactions

Research Network

Affiliates /Institutions

External Review

BioPhysicsEcologyEvo-Devo

Other

Evolutionary GeneticsNeuroscienceBio Research Assoc.

Did not respond

In Biology

AllLocalInteractions

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AffiliationBiology T/T-T

Bio Research FacultyLecturers

Old CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP Colleges

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

Did not respond

Teaching interactions: How many and how strong?

No reported interactions

BelyButtsComptonDudashFaganKocherReakaSimonSinger

Teaching NetworkAffiliation

Biology T/T-T

Bio Research FacultyLecturers

Old CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP Colleges

Did not respond

CohenFensterPayneQuinlanSoares

WebsiteEcology, Evolution & BehaviorNeurobiology, Biophysics & DevelopmentEvolutionary Developmental BiologyAffiliation/InstitutionLecturersBio Research Assoc.

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

Affiliation/Institutions

External Review

BioPhysicsEcologyEvo-Devo

Lecturers

Evolutionary GeneticsNeuroscienceBio Research Assoc.

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

THE END

Research network

Only Bio faculty:- degree range: 0-5- average degree: 1.1- average outdegree: 0.73- average indegree: 0.37- average weighted degree: 0.20

All nodes- density: 0.016- number of communities (islands): 9 (+9 isolated individuals) - Modularity: 0.85

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

Research network

Only Bio faculty:- degree range: 0-20- average degree: 3.88- average outdegree: 2.94- average indegree: 0.94- average weighted degree: 0.31

All nodes- density: 0.034- number of communities (islands): 7 (+6 isolated individuals)- Modularity: 0.608