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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, 2011-2012
"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

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

Envisioning new undergraduate research learning experiences

• 2012 is the fourth year of Miami's the First Year Research Experience program that offers incoming students an opportunity to establish early contact with a faculty mentor, and engage in either an individual research project or to join a faculty-mentored team of student researchers.
  
  Behind the Red Brick Hear what students say about their research experiences

Celebrating student research at the annual Undergraduate Research Forum held each April
Miami celebrates President David Hodge's focus on the "student as scholar" learning paradigm.