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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 2008-09
"The faculty, staff, and student profiles presented within this report
highlight a few outstanding examples of our approach toward meeting these
goals. I congratulate everyone at Miami who played a role in our successes.

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

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])
• 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
• 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.
• New for 2009, the First Year Research Experience program intends to provide incoming students with opportunities to engage in research and to establish early contact with faculty mentors
  

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  Behind the Red Brick Hear what students say about their research experiences

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.

View information about Undergraduate Research Forum April 15, 2009 - >>>>	Miami Academic Grants & Contracts Annual Report 2008-09	OARS Staff 2008-2009 and regional campus representatives
Download the UR 2009 program as pdf file.