1. T.C. Yih Vice Provost for Research Tel: (248) 370-2552 email: yih@oakland.edu OU: A Creativity Center University Senate February 2010

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Action Items New 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

6. 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 SourcesCurrent $ by Federal Agencies Research Expenditures (Internal + External)

7. ARRA Grants PI’s name Funding Agency Project Title Project Period Awarded Amount LastFirstStartEnd OlsonMarkNSF Oakland Noyce Teaching Scholars Program 06/1/095/31/14$893,199 ElderKennethNSF Modeling Non-Equilibrium Microstructure Formation 06/01/0905/31/13$242,000 WinklerBarryNIH Photoreceptor Cell Vulnerability and glutathione Status 07/01/096/30/11$709,009 ChintalaShravanNIH Proteases in IOP-Medicated Glaumatous Damage 7/1/096/30/10$740,000 RothBradleyNIH Magneto-Acoustic Effects in Imaging 5/1/0912/31/10$15,700 GiblinFrankNIH Proteins of normal and cataractous lenses 5/1/0912/31/10$28,938 MittonKennethNIH Coordination of Gene Expression in Retinal Development 5/1/094/30/10$15,700 Kobus/ Liedel Chris/JimDOE Alternative Energy Education $500,000 LiuZijuanNIH Arsenic Accumulation by Aquaglyceroporins & Phosphate Transporters in Zebrafish 5/1/0912/31/10$15,700 ZengXiangqunNIH Engineered Self-Assembling Fvs for Piezoimmunosensors 5/1/098/31/09$18,248 GoldbergAndrewNIH Molecular Scaffolding for Photoreceptor Outer Segment Structure and Renewal 5/1/0912/31/10$21,161 KerriganNessanNSF Catalytic Asymmetric Dimerization of Ketoketenes 9/1/098/31/12$340,000 RothBradleyNIH Magneto-Acoustic Effects in Imaging 5/1/094/30/11$154,277 Wendell / Pickard Douglas / Dawn NIH DNA Markers for Fast Plants to Teach Scientific Thinking 9/24/098/31/11$265,055 RothBradleyNIH Core for Quantitative Biology 09/30/0908/31/10$722,226 WangXiaNSF “IRES: US China Collaboration on Fluid and thermal Transport in Fuel Cells 10/01/0909/30/12$149,290 LeidelJamesDOE HHB Geothermal Heat Pump System 01/01/1012/31/15$2,752,163 Awarded Total$7,582,666