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OARS Welcomes Assistant Director

Tricia Callahan, joins OARS staff May 2008 read more>>>

Miami SUMSRI Nationally Recognized by AMS

Miami University's Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute (SUMSRI) is one of two exemplary programs nationwide that have been selected as "Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference" by the American Mathematical Society's Committee on the Profession >>>>> read more in The MU Report.

>>>>> read article from the Undergraduate Research Forum 08

The Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship (OARS) encourages, initiates, assists, and celebrates faculty research, scholarship and effective teaching at Miami University.

Undergraduate Research Forum April 16, 2008 - >>>>

OARS Actively assists faculty and staff in

Locating external Grant Funding Opportunities from federal, state and private agencies,
Proposal Development and Preparation
Research Compliance Requirements support (human subjects, animals, radiation, biosafety)

and provides internal grants and programs to assist the development of faculty capabilities and expertise in areas of:

Committee on Faculty Research (grants from the University Senate Committee on Faculty Research [CFR])
Research Incentive Awards (supported by the Ohio Board of Regents) - next deadline Feb 2008.
Shoupp Awards that provide faculty funding to initiate collaborative research projects with business and industry

and values the contribution of mentored undergraduate research to faculty and student learning through

Established on-going undergraduate programs

Miami's nationally-recognized Undergraduate Summer Scholar [USS] program established in 1995

University Senate Committee Undergraduate Research Awards (URA) Program now in its 25th year

OARS support for the Doctoral Undergraduate Student Opportunities DUOS program started in 2003, and

Envisioning new undergraduate research learning expericences!

Build student interdiscriplinary team-based collaboration through Miami University Interdisciplinary Technology Development Challenge MUITDC a program through which faculty mentors work in tadem with interdisciplinary student teams to actively find solutions to challenging problems.The MUITDC challenge topic for academic year 08-09 is:Recovered Energy Systems.

Offer unique undergraduate learning experiences as envisioned by Joyce Fernandes and Phyllis Callahan through an $800,000 grant from the National Science for a five-year program: to: 1) increase the number of underrepresented minority students recruited into the biological sciences; 2) enhance the preparation of students to enable them to successfully enter and remain in graduate programs; and 3) build a foundation to sustain the program at Miami. Read the full story ASSURE (Achieving Success in Science Through Undergraduate Research Experiences on Miami's News & Public Information site.

and celebrates President David Hodges focus on the "student as scholar" at the Miami's annual Undergraduate Research Forum each spring.

Miami's Undergraduate Research Forum

Download the UR 2008 program as pdf file.

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