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OARS Grant Opportunities Workshops

Locating Grant Opportunities- Spring 2012 Schedule

Location- Bachelor Hall, Room 264

Feb. 17, 2012--> 9-11 am
March 16, 2012--> 2:30-4:30 pm
April 20, 2012--> 9-11 am

Presented by: Helen Kiss

Undergraduate Research
Opportunities

Miami Students Invited to Present at the Undergraduate Research Forum April 11, 2012
Online registration is open mid-January to end of February 2012.

View or Download UR 12 Forum Registration Instructions
Questions: Contact Martha Weber weberme@muohio.edu UR Forum Event Director

First Year Research Experience (FYRE) Miami first year students are invited to explore working with a faculty mentor on a research project.

Miami faculty, staff and students invited to join CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research) under the Miami Enhanced Insitutional Membership
Effective July 1, 2011 an unlimited number faculty, staff and students can register as a CUR member. On the registration form make sure to choose Miami University OH. Contact Martha Weber for details.

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, 2010-2011
"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. Download the pdf file

 

Dr. James T. Oris

Interim Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship,
and Dean of the Graduate School

OARS Actively assists faculty and staff in:

• Locating Grant Funding Opportunities
• Proposal Development and Preparation
• Research Compliance Requirements (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 URA Award Announcements
  Undergraduate Research Award Program Round 1 Awards for Spring 2012 projects
• OARS continuing support for the Doctoral Undergraduate Student Opportunities DUOS program started in 2003, and
• MUITDC Challenge Student teams and mentors worked in tandem to actively seek solutions to this challenging.

Envisioning new undergraduate research learning experiences

• 2011 is the third year of Miami's the First Year Research Experience program that offeres incoming students an opportunity to engage in research and to establish early contact with a faculty mentor.
  

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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.

	OARS Staff 2009-2010 and regional campus representatives