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OU: A Creativity Center University Senate February 2010. T.C. Yih Vice Provost for Research Tel: (248) 370-2552 email: yih@oakland.edu. Vision. To facilitate sustained growth in creative works as well as basic, applied and translational research to excel OU as a renowned
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OU: A Creativity Center University Senate February 2010 T.C. Yih Vice Provost for Research Tel: (248) 370-2552 email: yih@oakland.edu
Vision To facilitate sustained growth in creative works as well as basic, applied and translational research to excel OU as a renowned inter-disciplinary, technology-enhanced Intellectual academic center
Strengths ● Academic programs ● Basic and applied research ● Cross-disciplinary undergraduate research ● Internal research incentives/programs ● Recognized scholarship in CAS and professional schools ● Statue of visual and performing arts ● Updated research infrastructure
Challenges & Opportunities ● Continued faculty involvement – Need more tenured/TT faculty actively involved in research – Need more research faculty to reach the critical mass ● Opportunities for product-oriented applied research ● Maintain strength in basic research ● Graduate research ● Long-term institutional strategy for research development, improvement, and recruitment
Action Items New Initiatives ● Meet with all Assistant Professors ● Research Endowment ● Electronic Sponsored Research Management System ● Institutional policies for Export Controls, Research Integrity, Establishment of Research Center/Institute, etc. ● GCSR grant writing workshop (Fall 2010) Milestones ● AAALAC “Full Accreditation” for BRSF (animal research) ● OU Research Guidelines – A Comprehensive Research Reference Manual ● OU Research Magazine & OU Research Newsletter ● Center for Biomedical Research Faculty Profiles
Action Items (cont’d) Ongoing Effort ● OU Undergraduate & Graduate Student Research Awards ● Outstanding Research Support Achievement Award ● OU-Beaumont Multidisciplinary Research Award ● OU-Beaumont Biomedical Research Symposium ● American Reinvestment & Recovery Act grants (ARRA) ● AAHRPP (human subject research) accreditation ● NanoTech R&D Institute Research Expenditures (Internal + External) Current $ by All Sources Current $ by Federal Agencies