This section is included to provide more detail and information than can be included in the statistical summary at the end of the report.

Organization and Staffing:

The Institute for Polymers & Organic Solids currently consists of a Director, an office staff of 1.80 people, 1.75 of whom are state-funded, a Staff Researcher (50% state-funded), and many researchers.

During the 1998-99 year, we maintained an open 50% receptionist position, and the Staff Researcher position was left unfilled when the past SRA left in Sept.'97. These positions remained open due to the search for the Wudl replacement, and subsequent new Director search. The disposition of these positions will be decided after the future of IPOS, and the issue of the Directorship is resolved in 10/99. In 1998-99 we employed 2 Researchers, 5 Post Graduate Researchers, of which 2 had PhDs and 4 Visiting Postdoctoral Researchers.

The researchers included several short-term visitors from Industry and other Universities, including 1 who won support from his government or Institute to do research here.

Student Support:

Graduate Students:

Our Institute has been important in the support of 9 graduate students, from several departments:

Undergraduates:

We had research participation from one undergraduate during the year,and 2 students from the MRL/Quest summer outreach program

Tuition

Tuition costs over the last eight years are shown by the following graph. It is important to note that these students would probably not be at UCSB without support from the Polymer Institute. Note that due to the Univerity changing how Non-resident PhD Candidates are charged tuition, the tuition paid in 98-99 has dropped. (We had 5 "non-resident" graduate students)

Contracts & Grants Income

Another important statistic not reflected in the statistics page is our Contracts and Grants, and the associated overhead paid, over the last 10 years. The following graph details this contribution to the University, with Expenditures used to indicate Contracts, Grants and Gifts awards. Overhead costs (actual from ledgers) contributed to the University of California are also indicated, as well as our IPOS base budget.

Two Important notes:

• In the 1992-93 year, our National Science Foundation Materials Research Grant (which started 3/15/88) was ended, and it became the basis for UCSB's Material Research Lab. Consequently, our overhead and expenditures decreased over 92-94, with the moving of this $650,000/year grant to the MRL office.
  
• In Feb. 1997, one of our primary P.I.s, Prof. Wudl, accepted a job offer at UCLA, and transferred his funding and research program there. His position went unfilled during the entire 1997-99 years, resulting in a very large reduction in our expenditures, overhead paid, and tuition & fees paid. It is also the reason for the drop in the numbers of researchers for the year.