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Senate meeting minutes for November The faculty senate September minutes were approved. Visit http://www.musc.edu/facsen/. Guest speaker Trident United Way—David Nicole spoke about a new program that Trident United Way started. Wings for Kids is an after-school program that is community based. Trident United Way utilizes resources from Big Brother/Big Sister and the Food Bank. The goal is to combine local non-profit organizations to provide mentorship and nutrition help to children. This after-school program is designed to help improve students’ overall education and ensure they graduate. So far 92 percent of students have improved their grades and moved on to the next class grade. Nicole also expressed appreciation to MUSC faculty for supporting Trident United Way. Diana Vincent, chair of the faculty intellectual property committee—Currently revising the current Intellectual Property (IP) Policy (in 95 percnt agreement). The current policy can be found at http://www.musc.edu/facsen/handbook/handbook.pdf. The policy defines intellectual property, addresses procedures, and offers incentives. The current unresolved issue is what to do with lab money when the principal investigator goes to a not-for-profit company or another university. Does the money follow the creator or does it stay at MUSC? Possible resolutions include: 1) the funding follows the creator, 2) the funding stays at MUSC, or 3) a combination of one and two (half of the funding goes and half stays). Stephen Lanier, Ph.D., associate provost for research—Lanier spoke about IP policies and procedures. He expressed a need for an updated policy in part because there has been a dramatic increase in entrepreneurial activity. He has been in contact with a number of different universities and colleges (both public and private) to see what their policies are on lab share following the creator when an individual leaves. No other university Lanier investigated allows the lab share of a grant to follow the faculty member. In support of MUSC retaining this lab share, he made the point that allowing this money to leave basically subsidizes growth at other universities. Comments should be directed to Vincent (vincentd@musc.edu) or Lanier (lanier@musc.edu). New business Walter Limehouse, M.D., faculty senate president— Limehouse will compile proposed changes to the IP policy for the faculty senate to consider. A vote will occur at the December meeting. Questions and comments can be directed to college faculty senate representatives. The next meeting will be held at 7:45 a.m., Tuesday, Dec.11, Room 125, Gazes Auditorium. Senators present Basic Science: Joan Cunningham(executive committee), Denise Quigley, Masha Bilic. Excused: Denise Quigley. Clinical Sciences: Christopher Pelic, Susan Ackerman, William Moran, John Osguthorpe (executive committee), C. Michael Bowman, Walter Limehouse (executive committee), Fletcher Penney, Marcelo Vela Aquino, Nikolaos Papamitsakis, William Conway, George Johnson, Brad Keith. Excused: Aljoeson Walker, M. Rita Young, Bonnie Martin-Harris. College of Dental Medicine: Rick Albenesius, Renata Leite, Marc Levitan (executive committee), Rick Albenesius (executive committee), Joe Krayer, Ted McGill (executive committee). Excused:  Joe Krayer College of Health Professions: Andrea White, David Morrisette, Paul Jacques, Charles Ellis, Tom McKee (alternate). Excused:  Kathleen Cegles Library Science and Informatics: Jennie Ariail, Tom Smith(executive committee), Latosha Craig (alternate). Excused: Geoff Freeman, Laura Cousineau (executive committee) College of Nursing:Carol McDougall, Sharon Bond, Nancy Duffy(executive committee), Ruth Stockdell (alternate), Barbara Edlund (executive committee) College of Pharmacy: Sarah Shrader, Katherine Chessman. —Submitted by Edie Hering     Friday, Nov. 30, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.