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Shoupp Awards for 2009-10 support Ohio Third Frontier projects

Undergraduate Research Opportunity: MUITDC Challenge 2009-10 Topic "Clean and Alternative Energy Systems" OARS invites Miami Students to join an MUITDC Challenge Team >>>> Submission Deadline 9/15/09

WYSO Dayton Public Radio
Listen to the MUITDC 08-09 Team Interviews



The Office for the Advancement of Research mission is to encourage, facilitate, and support the Miami University community in its effort to obtain external funding for all forms of research, education, scholarly, creative, service, and outreach activities.

Miami Academic Grants & Contracts Annual Report 2007-08
"Miami University has a strong tradition of excellence in undergraduate education and selective graduate programs. Long before it was fashionable, we embraced the “Students as Scholars” model of education. President David Hodge has emphasized the importance of this model and has challenged the University to meet the needs of the State and the Nation by increasing the role of inquiry-based activities both within and outside of the classroom setting. As part of their role at the university and in their professions, faculty and staff are challenged to conduct research and scholarly activities to discover new knowledge and provide technology for the benefit of humans and the natural world."

Annual Report Cover 2008Bruce J. Cochrane,
Dean of the Graduate School, and
Associate Provost for Research & Scholarship






OARS Actively assists faculty and staff in

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])
  • 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 30th year
  • OARS support for the Doctoral Undergraduate Student Opportunities DUOS program started in 2003, and

Envisioning new undergraduate research learning experiences!

  • Build student interdisciplinary team-based collaboration through the Miami University Interdisciplinary Technology Development Challenge MUITDC program -- Challenge topic for academic year 08-09 is Recovered Energy Systems. Student teams and mentors worked in tandem to actively seek solutions to this challenging. Listen to the WYSO Dayton Public Radio April 2009 interview with the teams.
  • 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.

Miami celebrates President David Hodge's focus on the "student as scholar" at the annual Undergraduate Research Forum held each spring. This year's event was April 15, 2009.