T.C. YihVice Provost for Research

Tel: (248) 370-2552email: yih@oakland.edu

OU: A Creativity Center

University SenateFebruary 2010

Vision

To facilitate sustained growth in

creative works

as well as

basic, applied and translational research

to excel OU as a renowned

inter-disciplinary, technology-enhanced

Intellectual academic center

Strengths

● Academic programs

● Basic and applied research

● Cross-disciplinary undergraduate research

● Internal research incentives/programs

● Recognized scholarship in CAS and professional schools

● Statue of visual and performing arts

● Updated research infrastructure

Challenges & Opportunities

● Continued faculty involvement – Need more tenured/TT faculty actively involved in research – Need more research faculty to reach the critical mass

● Opportunities for product-oriented applied research

● Maintain strength in basic research

● Graduate research

● Long-term institutional strategy for research development, improvement, and recruitment

Action ItemsNew Initiatives

● Meet with all Assistant Professors ● Research Endowment ● Electronic Sponsored Research Management System ● Institutional policies for Export Controls, Research Integrity, Establishment of Research Center/Institute, etc. ● GCSR grant writing workshop (Fall 2010)

Milestones

● AAALAC “Full Accreditation” for BRSF (animal research) ● OU Research Guidelines – A Comprehensive Research Reference Manual ● OU Research Magazine & OU Research Newsletter ● Center for Biomedical Research Faculty Profiles

Action Items (cont’d)

Ongoing Effort ● OU Undergraduate & Graduate Student Research Awards ● Outstanding Research Support Achievement Award ● OU-Beaumont Multidisciplinary Research Award ● OU-Beaumont Biomedical Research Symposium ● American Reinvestment & Recovery Act grants (ARRA) ● AAHRPP (human subject research) accreditation ● NanoTech R&D Institute

Current $ by All Sources

Current $ by Federal Agencies

Research Expenditures

(Internal + External)

FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009 $24,000,000

$25,000,000

$26,000,000

$27,000,000

$28,000,000

$29,000,000

$30,000,000

$31,000,000

$32,000,000

$33,000,000

$34,000,000

Feds63.2%

Indus12.5%

Other4.2%

Gifts9.8%

State10.3%

DOD10%

DOE10.4%

NIH38.9%

NSF38.5%

Other2.3%

ARRA GrantsPI’s name

FundingAgency

Project TitleProject Period

AwardedAmountLast First Start End

Olson Mark NSF Oakland Noyce Teaching Scholars Program 06/1/09 5/31/14 $893,199

Elder Kenneth NSF Modeling Non-Equilibrium Microstructure Formation 06/01/09 05/31/13 $242,000

Winkler Barry NIH Photoreceptor Cell Vulnerability and glutathione Status 07/01/09 6/30/11 $709,009

Chintala Shravan NIH Proteases in IOP-Medicated Glaumatous Damage 7/1/09 6/30/10 $740,000

Roth Bradley NIH Magneto-Acoustic Effects in Imaging 5/1/09 12/31/10 $15,700

Giblin Frank NIH Proteins of normal and cataractous lenses 5/1/09 12/31/10 $28,938

Mitton Kenneth NIH Coordination of Gene Expression in Retinal Development 5/1/09 4/30/10 $15,700

Kobus/ Liedel

Chris/Jim DOE Alternative Energy Education $500,000

Liu Zijuan NIHArsenic Accumulation by Aquaglyceroporins & Phosphate Transporters in Zebrafish

5/1/09 12/31/10 $15,700

Zeng Xiangqun NIH Engineered Self-Assembling Fvs for Piezoimmunosensors 5/1/09 8/31/09 $18,248

Goldberg Andrew NIHMolecular Scaffolding for Photoreceptor Outer Segment Structure and Renewal

5/1/09 12/31/10 $21,161

Kerrigan Nessan NSF Catalytic Asymmetric Dimerization of Ketoketenes 9/1/09 8/31/12 $340,000

Roth Bradley NIH Magneto-Acoustic Effects in Imaging 5/1/09 4/30/11 $154,277

Wendell / Pickard

Douglas / Dawn

NIH DNA Markers for Fast Plants to Teach Scientific Thinking 9/24/09 8/31/11 $265,055

Roth Bradley NIH Core for Quantitative Biology 09/30/09 08/31/10 $722,226

Wang Xia NSF “IRES: US China Collaboration on Fluid and thermal Transport in Fuel Cells 10/01/09 09/30/12 $149,290

Leidel James DOE HHB Geothermal Heat Pump System 01/01/10 12/31/15 $2,752,163

Awarded Total $7,582,666