Reporter Volume 25, No.9 October 28, 1993

John Dearden, former director of the University Office of Sponsored
Projects at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named senior
counselor to UB President William R. Greiner.
	Dividing his time between UB and Washington, D.C., Dearden
will help the university achieve a broader base of support for
research, with primary responsibility for developing connections
between UB research and technology transfer programs and federal,
state, regional and local groups. 
	In his new post, Dearden will advise university officers and
faculty on the impact of developments in national research policy and
research-related policy. He will establish a UB presence in relation
to federal bodies and agencies that affect national research policy. 
	At the state level, Dearden will identify statewide
opportunities for UB in research-related economic development
programs; cultivate opportunities for UB to transfer technology and
other research outcomes to state agencies; and assume an active role
in setting state research priorities.
	Locally, he will develop contacts with industry to identify
opportunities for research partnerships, technology transfer and other
collaborative programs. 
	At Johns Hopkins, Dearden worked on behalf of legislation and
federal policy that would encourage and support university research.
For example, he helped to create the Florida Demonstration Project to
standardize, streamline and simplify federal administrative and
management requirements for academic research. Working with White
House officials, he prepared and submitted a proposal to the
Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. This resulted in the
extension of the Florida Demonstration Project to non-Florida research
universities. 
	Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dearden was associate director,
Office of Research and Project Administration at Princeton University,
and assistant dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs.
	He is a member of the board of directors of the Business
Council on Reduction of Paperwork and former chairman of the Federal
Demonstration Project Contracts Task Force. 
	An honors graduate in political science from Rutgers
University, Dearden did doctoral work in political science at the
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 
	He is a member of the National Council of University Research
Administrators, Society of Research Administrators, Society of
University Patent Administrators, Licensing Executives Society and
American Association for the Advancement of Science.