The second of three candidates for the position of vice chancellor for research will visit Kansas University next week.

Mary J.C. Hendrix is president and scientific director at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She will be on campus Monday through Wednesday and will give a public presentation on “Strategies for Raising Research Stature during an Era of Declining Funding” at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center Pavilion.

Candidate Rich Hichwa, senior associate vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa, visited KU earlier this week. The third and final candidate — expected to be announced next week — will give a presentation at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Lied Center Pavilion.

Additional information on the candidates is being updated online at provost.ku.edu/search. All presentations will be recorded on video and posted online after the last presentation is complete.

The vice chancellor for research at KU oversees 10 research centers, two state surveys, two affiliated centers and a number of core research laboratories. The position also serves as president of the KU Center for Research Inc. — the nonprofit research foundation responsible for the administration of research grants and other external awards — and shares overall responsibility for KU Innovation and Collaboration, KU’s bicampus technology commercialization office. Mary Lee Hummert has been serving as KU’s interim vice chancellor since March 2014.