Timothy L. Quigg

Timothy L. Quigg, Associate Chair for Administration and Finance and Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his BA from Wake Forest University and his MPA from North Carolina State University where he was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha honor society. He has received additional non-degree training in intellectual property management (patents, copyright, licensing and technical data), federal contract management (including the FAR), and personnel management from the Colorado School of Mines, the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler School of Business. His career spans more than 35 years in higher education administration, the private sector and state government. He was the co-founder of two computer software companies, director of a large federal social science research project funded by the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina as the CFO of a large statewide human services program.

In addition to serving as the chief financial and administrative officer of a top 20 ranked Department of Computer Science, his primary areas of scholarly interest are management theory and practices, intellectual property rights and effective systems for technology transfer, and sponsored research administration at three levels: laboratory, department and central institution. He Chairs both the Office of Sponsored Research Review Committee and the College of Arts and Sciences Conflict of Interest Committee, and he is a member of the Advisory Boards for both the Office of Technology Development and the Office of Economic Development. He is a popular lecturer, giving numerous talks and workshops on management principles throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. His teaching duties include a popular graduate seminar in research administration designed for senior PhD students, post docs and junior faculty. He is the creator and primary instructor for the Tar Heel Certificate Program in Research Administration. His recent training and consulting clients include the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Environmental Protection Agency and numerous universities throughout the United States.

In 2002, the Society of Research Administrators International honored him as one of twelve inaugural members of their Distinguished Faculty. This appointment "acknowledged his internationally recognized expertise, excellence in developing and delivering professional development training, and many significant contributions to the profession of research administration." He has served the Society as President of the Southern Section, a member of the International Board of Directors, Chair of the Education and Professional Development Committee, and Chair of the Departmental Interest Group. He has spearheaded the development of the popular DA101, DA201 and DA202 Certificate Programs and has worked cooperatively with Canadian colleagues to convert the materials for use with Canadian research administrators in their Research Management program. He has been an invited speaker in this training at the University of British Columbia, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa. In the Spring of 2005, he went to Estonia as part of a joint US, Canadian and European Union team to assist senior administrators at Estonian universities in Tallin and Tartu expand and develop their research administration/compliance infrastructure, and he is an invited speaker at the 2008 INORMS (International Network of Research Management Societies) annual conference in Liverpool where he will discuss strategic approaches to structuring central research administration/compliance offices.

Among his many honors and awards are the "Order of the Long Leaf Pine" in 1983 (the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Governor of North Carolina), the UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor's Award for Excellence in 1999 (the highest award given to UNC-Chapel Hill employees), the inaugural UNC-Chapel Hill Excellence in Research Administration Award in 2004, and the Career Excellence Award from SRA International in 2007. In addition to numerous papers, articles and reports, he has recently authored a chapter entitled "Departmental Administrators Roles, Responsibilities and Structures" in the first comprehensive textbook on Research Administration published in 2005 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

 

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Research Support and Administration

• Proposal and Budget Preparation
• Post Award Administration
• Travel Information
• Department Funding History
• List of Department Sponsors
• Federal Agencies
• Private Grantmakers
• Research at Carolina

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Intellectual Property/Technology Transfer

• CS Technologies Available for Licensing: Patents
• UNC Report of Invention Form
• UNC Policies on Intellectual Property Rights
• Office of Technology Development

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