OARS Research News

OARS Research News December 2012 1

Welcome to this issue of the newsletter by Jim Oris Associate Provost for Research & Dean of the Graduate School

In this issue Welcome...................................... 1 Samir Bali profile ......................... 2 Jason Berberich profile ................ 3 Chris Wolfe profile ....................... 4 Fulbright rep visits Miami ............. 5 Miami’s Fulbright students ........... 6 Graduate Research Forum .......... 7 CUR ............................................. 8 OARS re-organization ................. 9 Gathering of Miami grant pros ... 10 Recovery Act compliance .......... 11 External funding figures ............. 12 IRB applications ......................... 13 Funding opportunities ................ 14

W e l come to the first edition of the newly rede-signed OARS Re-search News. Our new Information C o o r d i n a t o r , Heather John-

ston (see sidebar at left) has worked to make the newsletter more engag-ing and reader-friendly, and we hope it’s easier for you to find and digest the information important to you.

In addition to Heather, I am pleased to (re-)introduce Reid Smith (see sidebar at left). Reid has worked with us for the past 18 months as part of a shared services agreement with Wright State University, but became a full-time member of the OARS team when he was named the Director of Technology Transfer and Business Partnerships on October 1.

Inside this issue we profile three fac-ulty whose research is making a dif-ference. First, we share the success of Samir Bali (Physics), who, along with his team of undergraduate and graduate research students, is fea-

tured in a “Researcher Story” on the American Chemical Society Petrole-um Research Fund (ACF PRF) web-site. Next, we introduce you to Mi-ami newcomer Jason Berberich (Chemical and Paper Engineering), giving you a peek into his past with a private research firm, and a glimpse into the future of biomedical engi-neering. Last but not least, we up-date you on the work of Chris Wolfe (Psychology), which we first featured in our September 2011 is-sue. In collaboration with col-leagues from Cornell University and the University of Memphis, Wolfe is developing an online tutorial de-signed to help women navigate the complexities of deciding whether to undergo genetic testing to assess their risk for breast cancer.

We also bring you news from a re-cent on-campus workshop delivered by Dianne Price, Program Officer in

the South and Central Asia unit of the Fulbright Scholar Program. Further highlighting the opportunities of the Fulbright program, we hear from five Miami students and alumni currently participating in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

In student research news, we offer an overview of the recent Graduate Re-search Forum and showcase the bene-fits to faculty of taking advantage of free membership in the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) through Miami’s enhanced institu-tional membership.

Finally, we introduce and explain ma-jor re-structuring in OARS and up-date you on external funding, compli-ance training, IRB applications and funding opportunity research.

Reid Smith was recently named Di-rector of Technology Transfer and Busi-ness Partnerships. Formerly a bench research scientist, Reid has spent the last decade in intel-lectual property li-censing at various institutions. Reid

received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1998, and a B.S. in Biologi-cal Sciences from Indiana University in 1989. Reid is actively involved with the Association of University Technology Managers.

Heather Johnston was recently named Assistant Director and Information Co-ordinator. She holds a B.S. in Education from Bowling Green State University and an M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to her career in aca-demia, Heather worked in marketing communications and direct sales. From 2005 to 2010, she taught English compo-sition and technical writing at UC. In 2010, she transitioned to UC’s Faculty Technology Resources Center.

New to OARS

Sound off about the

re-design or suggest

future topics.

heather.johnston@ miamioh.edu

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Research garners national attention for Samir Bali, students by Vicki Prichard Director of Communication, College of Arts & Sciences

S amir Bali and his team of undergraduate and graduate research students at Miami Univer-sity, are featured in “Researchers Stories” on the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACF PRF) website.

Bali, an associate professor in phys-ics, is one of four researchers out of 184 ACF PRF grant awardees – which include recipients from Research 1 institutions – whose work is featured on the website.

The feature, “Scattered Light,” includes photos of the student engagement in the experimental set-up of their research project, “Measurement of the Refractive Index of Highly Turbid Media."

Bali and his team developed a new method and measurement tool to measure the optical properties of turbid materials.

Bali’s research redefined traditional assumptions that when light passes from a denser medium, for example, glass into air, that at a certain angle the light will no longer penetrate the air. In the 1950’s, scientists discov-ered that the light does slightly penetrate. Until Bali’s discovery, there was an absence of methodolo-gy to utilize slight-angle dependent penetration.

Bali modeled the angle-dependence

of the penetration and designed methodology that analyzes the material contained within the slight depth of light penetration. While his method works for small particle sizes, preliminary data indicates its potential success in measuring larg-er particle sizes.

The ACS PRF grant, which was awarded to Bali in 2011, has helped to support Bali’s principle investiga-tor (PI) and graduate students, as well as equipment (e.g., fiber-coupled lasers, cameras) and supplies (optics, such as prisms and wave plates, and custom-prepared

turbid samples).

“I am indebted to ACS PRF for supporting my students and me in our research for the past six years, and seeing us through difficult times when funding from other

sources has been scarce. To be cho-sen by ACS PRF as one of four ‘success research stories’ from amongst about 200 awardees is truly special for my students and me.”

As a result of the grant support, Bali’s graduate and undergraduate students have co-authored on peer-reviewed books, engaged in research, and been invited to present talks and posters pertaining to their research.

Reprinted with permission of the author.

Samir Bali (second from right) is pictured with colleague Dr. Lalit Bali (far left) and students (left to right) Milly

Dong, Kashi Goyal, Brad Worth and Marcel Nguemaha

Register for NCUR conference starting January 15 The 27th National Conference on

Undergraduate Research (NCUR)

will be held April 11-13, 2013 at the

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

More than 3000 participants are

expected to attend this event,

where students from 300+ universi-

ties and colleges will present their

research and other scholarly work.

Miami was represented by ten

student presenters at the 26th

NCUR in 2012.

For information or to register, visit

http://www.cur.org/ncur_2013/

“To be chosen as

a ‘success story’ is

truly special for my

students and me.”

OARS Research News December 2012 3

Professor’s enzyme research catalyzes product development by Heather Beattey Johnston OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

I magine you’re a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Following a tip about the possible location of insurgents responsible for a recent rash of chemical weapons attacks on girls’ schools in the province, your platoon has been dispatched to raid the com-pound suspected as the insurgents’ base of operations. Of immediate importance once the compound has been secured is determining whether there are chemical warfare agents present. To do this, you and your fellow soldiers use the Agentase CAD-Kit. Within 5 minutes you know what you’re dealing with and can begin executing a plan to mitigate the threat.

If you were that solider, you might want to meet – and thank – Dr. Ja-son Berberich. As the former Di-rector of Development and Manager of Research for Agentase (now owned by FLIR Systems), Berberich was responsible for participating in and overseeing the development and commercialization of products like the Agentase CAD-Kit.

A chemical engineer by training – he holds both a B.S. and a Ph.D from the University of Kentucky – Berber-ich’s area of expertise is enzymes, those large biological molecules that catalyze chemical reactions. Be-cause enzymes are highly selective, they can be used to engineer prod-

ucts that act on very specific targets, leaving other materials in the sur-rounding environment entirely un-affected. The enzymes that are commonly found in modern laun-dry detergents, for example, target fats that stain clothing, reducing the need for harsh bleaches, which ag-gressively corrode everything they touch.

Berberich engineered enzymatic solutions not only to detect the presence of specific chemical agents, but also to actually “eat up” those agents, something that be-came of intense interest to the U.S. government and military following the terrorist attacks on the World

Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Much of Berberich’s work at Agentase was funded by the De-partment of Defense, the Army Research Office and other military agencies. However, there were other applications for his research as well, including abatement of accidental pesticide spills in agri-cultural settings.

Berberich left a postdoctoral asso-ciateship at the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in order to help build Agentase. Though not a founder, he was brought into the company early on and was heavily involved in all aspects of commer-cializing his research. He says his experience with Agentase “was a neat opportunity to see everything, but it was time for a change, time to go back to what I originally wanted to do” before leaving his postdoc. “[Agentase] didn’t feel like my calling,” he says.

Today, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Paper Engineering, Berberich is

looking into ways to use enzymes to diagnose and treat medical condi-tions like diabetes. He envisions engineering nanomaterials to carry enzymes that can detect a condition like high blood sugar throughout the human body. These enzymes would then broadcast that information to an external imaging device that con-verts the raw data into a form mean-ingful to physicians and their pa-tients.

Berberich’s description of the pro-cess brings to mind the fictional tri-corder device from the Star Trek se-ries. When asked about it, he re-sponds, “I’ve actually lived in that world of the tricorder. The Trekkies I’ve worked with have always wanted to answer that question, ‘How do we build a tricorder?’” With Jason Ber-berich at the helm, we may not have to wait until 2266 to see Gene Rod-denberry’s prophecy manifested.

Jason Berberich

“The Trekkies I’ve

worked with have

always wanted to

answer that question,

‘How do we build

a tricorder?’”

Schauer now has signature authority

As part of the restructuring of

OARS (see article on page

9), Anne Schauer, Director of

Research and Sponsored Pro-

grams, became one of only three

Miami University administrators

granted the authority to sign con-

tracts and agreements relating to

externally-funded grants and con-

tracts on behalf of the university.

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Professor and his students study the complexities of decision-making in genetic testing for breast cancer risk by Vicki Prichard Director of Communication, College of Arts & Sciences

O ne year into research about women's decision-making surround-ing genetic testing for breast cancer, a Miami University professor and his students are encouraged about an online tutoring system.

Because of early detection and im-proved treatments, survival rates for breast cancer are growing. With the availability of genetic testing, many women are contemplating the deci-sion to calculate their risk of devel-oping the disease, says Chris Wolfe, a professor and cognitive psychologist in Miami’s psychology department.

Wolfe knows the decision to have genetic testing confronts a compli-cated set of issues. Working with a $364,120 grant from the National Cancer Institute, and in collabora-tion with Valerie Reyna at Cornell University and Xiangen Hu at the University of Memphis, Wolfe and his team of Miami undergraduates and graduate students are creating an intelligent tutoring system to help women understand and weigh the benefits and difficulties that comes with such knowledge.

“I’m a cognitive psychologist so I’m interested in the learning process and the decision-making process,”

says Wolfe. “How can we apply what we know from psychology to this realm, to this kind of important question that a lot of women are facing.”

Genetic testing, which many insur-ance companies do not cover, can determine a woman’s projected risk of breast cancer, which can alter a woman’s future.

“You can go to the doctor and get a blood test but you don’t necessarily know what to do with the infor-mation because it’s not like a Hun-tington’s disease, where if you have the mutation you will have the dis-

ease,” says Wolfe. “Different wom-en will make different choices.”

In addition, issues loom about tak-ing the test itself – issues regarding privacy, finances and impact on other family members.

“A woman might say she would like to know what her genetic risk is but her sister might not want to know that,” says Wolfe. “Then you have this financial issue in that it’s often not covered by insurance. The results are in your medical records, and while we have laws in the U.S. to protect people, your employer can’t fire you but they can legally deny you long term care insurance.”

Enter the Intelligent Tutoring Sys-tem (ITS) created with AutoTutor Lite, an animated, talking avatar that interacts with women online about genetic testing for breast cancer. The system with an ani-mated conversational agent draws upon well-vetted, approved, and

available information on the National Cancer Institute website. The tutoring system poses questions to partici-pants and engages them in conversa-tion. The animated conversational agent responds differently to different users depending on what they say. The research goals are two-fold: First, to better understand how women de-cide whether to undergo predictive testing for genetic risk of breast can-cer, and second, is the development of the sophisticated animated ITS. Ultimately, the goal is to help women make better decisions about genetic testing for breast cancer risk.

Wolfe and Reyna are the principal investigators. Wolfe’s research team comprises four Miami graduate stu-dents – Colin Widmer, Elizabeth Cedillos, Chris Fisher, and Audrey Well – and six undergradu-ates – Isabella Damas Van-nucchi, Triana Williams, Shelby Copenhaver, Mandy Withrow, Nicole Rodgers, and Andrew Ci-relli.

“In my laboratory I have undergradu-ate students who are working as re-search assistants, certainly an im-portant piece of student involve-ment,” says Wolfe. “I have a graphic design student, Jenny Miller, who took two of my psychology classes for the thematic sequence and I recruited her to do the graphics and I think she

continued on page 5

Chris Wolfe “You can go to the

doctor and get a

blood test but you

don’t necessarily

know what to do with

the information.”

OARS Research News December 2012 5

Chris Wolfe continued from page 4

did a wonderful job.”

Graduate student Colin Widmer spent the summer analyzing the ver-bal interactions that women had with the tutor. He says that early results indicate the women who have used the tutoring program score higher on inquiries related to genetic breast cancer testing than women who do not use the program.

“What I find particularly exciting about this project is that women who go through the tutor are not just passively getting the knowledge the tutor is teaching, but are actively engaged throughout it in these inter-actions,” says Widmer. “They can answer questions the tutor asks just by entering text and the tutor can actually respond appropriately to

their answers, giving suggestions and encouragement.”

“Our preliminary results from the research are very encouraging that these interactions with the tutor are effective in teaching women about the complex, and difficult to understand, domain of genetic

testing or breast cancer risk,” says Widmer.

More than 100 Miami undergradu-ate women have participated in the research.

“I’m very grateful to the Miami students who were our partici-pants and our research subjects,” says Wolfe. “They might be just doing it for a requirement in class but it really makes an impact and helps us do this kind of research here at Miami that we couldn’t do otherwise.”

Soon the tests will move beyond the laboratory setting and move into a broader and more diverse sample of women who will use the tutor online from their homes.

Reprinted with permission of the author

Graphics from Wolfe’s Intelligent Tutoring System

Fulbright rep conducts on-campus workshop for faculty by Heather Beattey Johnston OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

D ianne Price, Program Of-ficer in the South and Central Asia unit of the Fulbright Scholar Pro-gram, visited Miami University on November 14 to conduct a workshop for prospective applicants.

Price was introduced by Dr. David J. Keitges, Miami’s Director of In-ternational Education. The work-shop, which was co-sponsored by the Office of International Education and OARS, provided the nine faculty in attendance with an overview of the various programs available.

Over 1,000 grants are available to faculty, administrators and inde-pendent professionals of all ranks and in all disciplines to teach, study or consult in one or more of 125 countries (Price highlighted multi-country opportunities as ones that are often overlooked by applicants). Historically, 34% of participants apply to Fulbright for the purpose of teaching, while 25% apply in order to conduct research. An additional 34% seek to combine the two.

Price emphasized that the range of programs offered accommodates diverse interests and goals. The traditional Core program, for in-stance, features in-country stays of two to 12 months, but applicants interested in shorter stays can apply

to the Specialist program, which fea-tures in-country stays of two to six weeks.

Fulbright has granted awards to applicants from 500 institutions in the U.S., including 52 Miami faculty.

Price offered specific instructions on how to apply to the program, includ-ing a demonstration of the Fulbright online awards catalog, which is availa-ble at http://catalog.cies.org/.

After Price concluded her remarks, Dr. Jonathan Levy, Associate Pro-fessor of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, shared highlights from his Fulbright experience in South Afri-ca in 2009-2010.

More information about Fulbright programs can be found at http://www.cies.org/. Miami faculty inter-ested in exploring Fulbright opportu-nities should contact International Grant Coordinator and Advisor Karla Guinigundo a t 529-5622 or [email protected]. The dead-line to apply for the Core program is August 1. The Specialist program ac-cepts applications at any time.

“With the tutor,

women are not just

passively getting the

knowledge, but are

actively engaged.” Fulbright programs

feature in-country

stays ranging

from 2 weeks

to 12 months.

OARS Research News December 2012 6

Fulbright sponsors six Miami University students in 2012-2013 by Heather Beattey Johnston OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

T hrough the Fulbright U.S. Stu-dent Program, six Miami students and alumni are teaching English abroad in 2012-2013. Below, five of them describe what Fulbright means to them.

Recent Miami gradu-ate Elizabeth Bersin majored in diplomacy and foreign affairs and minored in Ger-man and communica-tions. Originally from Long Grove, Illinois, she currently lives in

Graz, Austria.

“The Fulbright experience is an amazing opportunity that I am so glad I was able to take advantage of. Every day you get to teach your stu-dents something new and introduce them to a part of American culture and hear first-hand what it is like. One of my best moments was when I walked into a class that I had not seen for some time and they were all so excited to see me that they stood and clapped for me. That is some-thing where you can’t help but feel great about what you’re doing.”

— Elizabeth Bersin

“When I was visiting the small town of Alikovo, I presented to several groups of school children. I was the

Tim Boll, from Grosse Point Park, Michigan, graduated from Miami in May 2012. The former Russian, Eastern European & Eura-sian studies major currently lives in

Russia.

first American most of the kids had ever seen. When I opened the floor for questions in a first grade class-room, a boy asked, ‘How much does an ice cream cone cost in Ameri-ca?’ The question was simple, but it was refreshing to have someone ask me a question about something as down-to-earth as the price of ice cream and not about our differing political beliefs or international allegiances. While those things are without a doubt important, the Fulbright experience has led me to believe that it is more beneficial to focus on our similarities as humans and not our differences. On our unity rather than our diversity.”

— Tim Boll

“To me, being a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant is as much about learning as it is about teaching Eng-lish. I live with a Mongolian woman who teaches at the same school I do, and the first thing we did when I arrived was Post-It note everything in the apartment with labels in both Mongolian and English. That sort of exchange is the heart of my experience here. Now, Namuunaa

Katelin Burke, of Deerfield, Illinois, was a linguistics major minoring in French and rhetoric/writing before graduating from Miami this past May. She’s currently teaching English in

Mongolia.

helps me make brownies (she’d never heard of them before), and I help her bathe her nieces when they come to visit. The two-year-old calls me the same thing she does Namuunaa: ‘big sister.’”

— Katelin Burke

Originally from Ashland, Ohio, Daniel Hawk, a German and diplo-macy and global politics double major, currently teaches

English in Germany.

“As a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Germany, my job duties transcend the mere instruction of English grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Every day, my German colleagues and students call upon me to explain the intrica-cies and peculiarities of US culture and politics. For example, after the presidential election of 2012, I led political discussions in social stud-

ies classes at my school and was even interviewed by a local radio station to talk about the election results. The Fulbright program has therefore imbued me with a deep appreciation for intercultural dialogue and has enabled me to serve as a transatlantic ambassador.”

— Daniel Hawk

German education, social studies educa-tion and German triple major Corbin Mathias, from Fishers, Indiana currently lives in

Lϋbeck, Germany.

“What the Fulbright Program means to me is in those moments when I see students realize not just that they’ve improved their English through our discussion and that they see an-other culture’s perspective now, but also when their eyes light up a few moments later as they catch a glimpse of themselves and their cul-ture through the lens of the other cul-ture’s perspective. It is our differ-ences that expose and strengthen our understanding of each other as well as of ourselves, and it’s in these mo-ments that we see each other as peers, as colleagues, as friends, and really begin to grasp our overwhelm-ingly common humanity.”

— Corbin Mathias

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Student researchers present their work at the 4th Annual Graduate Research Forum by Ann Bainbridge Frymier Associate Dean of the Graduate School

T he Fourth Annual Graduate Research Forum was held on Friday, November 2, 2012 at the Shriver Center. 148 masters and doctoral students from four academic divi-sions and 21 departments and pro-grams presented their research and scholarship at the forum.

Sponsored by the Graduate School and Graduate Alumni, the Graduate Research Forum is an interdiscipli-nary event, making it a unique venue for students. Chemistry and English students sometimes find themselves on the same panels, while posters by students in Kinesiology and Health might be presented next to posters by Geology students.

There were 14 oral sessions, with four to five students presenting in each session. An additional 86 stu-dents presented in two poster ses-sions. Presentations covered many topics, including the intersection between architecture and culture and the effects herbivores have on plant populations.

Oral and poster presentations were evaluated by 18 graduate alumni, who returned to campus to serve as judges, and an equal number of fac-ulty. Judges primarily evaluated student researchers on their ability

to discuss their projects with a non-expert audience, their ability to an-swer questions, and their overall presentation ability.

The top three oral presenters and top three poster presenters will be announced in December. Each re-cipient will receive $300 in profes-sional expense money to support

the students’ travel to present their work at professional conferences. Awards are sponsored by the Grad-uate School, James Paxton (MBA, 2007) and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

During a reception for the research-ers, judges and guests, Dr. Valerie Cross of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Dr. Richard Quantz of Educational Leadership were recognized as re-cipients of the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

19th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum to be held April 10

Online registration begins January 12

Miami University undergraduates

are invited to present results of

independent research projects and

other creative activity at the univer-

sity’s Undergraduate Research

Forum. Students may choose to

present research results in either a

15-minute oral synopsis, or in an

interactive poster session. All ses-

sions will be open to the public.

Prospective undergraduate pre-

senters can register online

at http://www.miamioh.edu/under

gradresearch between January 12

and February 28. For more infor-

mation, contact Martha Weber,

OARS Undergraduate Research

Coordinator, at 529-3600.

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Organization aids networking, professional development by Alaina Veluscek Student Intern, Strategic Communications

T he Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) focuses on provid-ing and enhancing undergraduate research opportunities for both fac-ulty and students. CUR is one of the few professional organizations that focus on all areas of academic re-search, including the arts and hu-manities, biology, chemistry, geosci-ences, health sciences, mathematics and computer science, physics and astronomy, psychology and social sciences. This allows for high-quality collaboration between undergradu-ate students and faculty, regardless of discipline.

CUR exists to support undergradu-ate research by providing network-ing opportunities and other re-sources to faculty. Broadly defined, undergraduate research is an inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline. By

including undergraduates in their research projects, faculty members develop professionally while also serving the academic community.

Miami University values and sup-ports CUR’s mission through its enhanced institutional member-ship, which covers all Miami affili-ates’ membership costs.

Membership offers the following benefits to faculty:

Academic Service

• By writing articles for CUR pub-lications and listservs, faculty members can share their ideas via these media and can gather new ideas by reading colleagues’ articles.

• Faculty members can also con-tribute to Miami’s strong repu-tation with undergraduate re-search. By joining the CUR, fac-ulty members are declaring their involvement with such programs.

Faculty development

• CUR offers a chance to interact and connect with other profes-sionals interested in advancing undergraduate research.

• Through CUR publications and outreach activities, faculty share successful models and strate-gies, adapting ideas to their own research processes.

• Faculty members can build their professional skills by attending a CUR conference, which gives

them the opportunity to active-ly engage with other faculty and discuss issues relevant to un-dergraduate research.

Improved opportunities and environment

• CUR’s mentor network is bene-ficial to faculty members who are interested in initiating or sustaining undergraduate re-search programs.

• Through its consulting services, CUR assists colleges and univer-sities in a range of activities, in-cluding assessing undergraduate research programs, designing fundraising programs and organ-izing faculty retreats with guest speakers.

• Funding opportunities and fel-lowships are provided to under-grads through the CUR website.

Miami affiliates can join CUR for free Simply follow these steps:

1. Visit http://www.cur.org

2. Click the “Join CUR” link

3. Click on “Individual

Membership”

4. Fill in your personal info

5. Choose “Miami Universi-

ty (OH)” as your institution

6. Click “OK” in the pop-up

window confirming Miami’s

enhanced institutional

membership; this makes

your individual member-

ship free

2.

5. For more

information, visit

http://www.cur.org

or call Martha Weber,

Miami’s CUR liaison,

at 529-3600.

OARS Research News December 2012 9

OARS announces re-organization and welcomes new staff by Jim Oris Associate Provost for Research & Dean of the Graduate School

O ver the past year, we re-viewed the current organizational structure in OARS. This review was part of an overall look at how the department developed historically, and at how we might become more efficient and effective in serving the university community.

Staff in OARS, the Graduate School, the Provost’s Office and Human Re-sources collaborated on a re-organization of OARS that not only allows the office to be more respon-sive to the needs of constituents, but also allows for diversification of op-erations, and professional advance-ment or expansion of staff as need-ed, all things the old structure did not allow.

The reorganization creates six de-partments within OARS. Each de-partment is assigned the following position titles:

• Assistant Director/Coordinator

• Associate Director/Coordinator

• Director/Coordinator

These titles provide a professional path for staff working in each de-partment. In practice, most of the new departments currently have just one staff member, but if operations expand beyond current capacity, it will be possible to add new staff at the assistant or associate level.

DEPARTMENTS

Research & Sponsored Programs Director: Anne Schauer

With 19 years’ expe-rience in research administration, Anne Schauer is responsi-ble for day-to-day administration of pre-award activities. She previously served as Assistant Director from 2004 to 2012.

Reporting to Anne Schauer, Administra-t i v e A s s i s t a n t Vanessa Gordon (with OARS since early 2012) supports and organizes OARS, as well as the Com-mittee on Faculty Research and the

Committee on Undergraduate Re-search. Vanessa’s strong focus on customer service and support is owed in part to her previous experi-ence in the Office of the Registrar.

Proposal Development Director: Tricia Callahan

With 14 years of ex-perience in research administration, Tri-cia Callahan assists faculty and staff in the planning, prepa-ration and submis-sion of external grants and leads ef-forts for proposal-

writing and grant-writing work-shops. She previously served as As-sistant Director from 2008 to 2012.

Research Compliance Director: Neal Sullivan

With OARS since 2008, Neal Sullivan will continues in his role as the university research compliance officer. Jennifer Sutton (who re-placed Terri Brosius in early 2012) has been named Assis-tant Director of Re-search Compliance. Neal and Jennifer lead our compliance and training efforts for human and verte-brate animal sub-jects and responsible conduct of research.

Undergraduate Research Coordinator: Martha Weber

Long involved with the undergradu-

ate research pro-grams, Martha Weber has over 20 years of service in the research office at Miami.

Information Coordination Asst. Director: Heather Johnston

Taking the position vacated by long-time employee Helen Kiss (who resigned to take a similar position at the University of Mis-sissippi), Heather Johnston brings expe-rience as a profession-al writer. In addition

to identifying funding opportunities and editing our newsletter, Heather also provides assistance as a grant editor and writer.

Technology Transfer & Business Partnerships Director: Reid Smith

Now with OARS full-time, Reid Smith worked with us part-time for the past 18 months, as part of a shared services agree-ment with Wright State University. Reid brings a wealth of tal-

ent to Miami University, with 13 years experience in academic tech-nology transfer management, con-tract and license negotiation, and export controls compliance.

Tricia Callahan

Vanessa Gordon

Anne Schauer

Neal Sullivan

Jennifer Sutton

Martha Weber

Heather Johnston

Reid Smith

The goal of the

re-organization was

to build a more

efficient and

effective service.

OARS Research News December 2012 10

Journal publishes student research Manuscript submission deadline is January 31

Through January 31, undergraduate,

graduate and recently graduated

students may submit the following to

the Journal of Student Research

(JOSR) :

• Manuscripts on original research (including those co-authored with faculty)

• Original reviews or analyses on any topic

• Other types of material

Peer-reviewed and independently

operated, JOSR offers open access

to its articles. To view author guide-

lines or to submit a manuscript, visit

http://jofsr.com/index.php/path/index.

OARS hosts gathering of grant pros from across the University to promote cooperation by Heather Beattey Johnston OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

O n December 4, grant writers and administrators from various units met in Roudebush Hall for a network-ing event organized by OARS. The focus of the informal discussion was coordinating services and avoiding duplicated effort.

In attendance were:

• Tricia Callahan, Director of Proposal Development, OARS

• Vince Frieden, Associate Director for Development Communications, Advancement Services

• Vanessa Gordon, Administra-tive Assistant, OARS

• Karla Guinigundo, Interna-tional Grant Coordinator and Advisor, International Education

• Sara Hayes, Coordinator of the Discovery Center, College of Education, Health and Society

• Heather Johnston, Assistant Director & Information Coordinator, OARS

• Amy Lamborg, Director of Grant Development, Miami Regionals

• Tiffany Major, Associate Director for Planning & Management, Scripps

Gerontology Center

• Jim Oris, Associate Provost for Research & Dean of the Graduate School

• Emily Ryan, Coordinator of the Evaluation & Assessment Center, College of Education, Health and Society

• Anne Schauer, Director of Research & Sponsored Programs, OARS

• Ann Showalter, Graduate Assistant Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence

• Amy Stander, Grant & Development Writer, Miami Regionals

The group was particularly interest-ed to hear from Jim Oris about the need to increase the number of pro-posal submissions from Miami fac-ulty and staff, in light of decreased rates of funding by federal agencies. This information generated brain-storming about how to identify and overcome barriers preventing re-searchers from submitting pro-posals. Recent emphasis on provid-ing more grants-facilitation and grant-writing assistance from OARS and the other offices represented at the meeting indicates a move in the right direction.

Upon the recommendation of Amy Lamborg, the group agreed to ex-plore the possibility of formalizing

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Miami in 100% compliance for ARRA funding regulations by Linda Manley Grants & Contracts Manager, Finance & Business Services

T he American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on Feb-ruary 17, 2009. The three purposes of ARRA were to:

• Create new jobs and save exist-ing ones

• Spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth

• Foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending

The act contained an unparalleled amount of research funding. Ohio’s District 8 alone, was awarded over $4 billion in federal contract and assis-tance awards. Of those awards, Miami University received 28 grants totaling $7,324,201, either as a prime award recipient or by way of pass-through agencies.

Recently three additional ARRA awards were received, even though initially the stimulus funding was to be spent within the first two years of the signing of the ARRA.

The scope of ARRA projects varies and many departments have received stimulus funding. Although there are few limitations on the use of ARRA funds (no casino or other gambling establishments, aquariums, zoos, golf courses, or swimming pools), monitoring of ARRA funding re-mains a high priority. From federal watchdogs to taxpayers, ARRA funds are heavily scrutinized and there is increased emphasis on being “transparent” and “accountable” with

our expenditures.

With this transparency comes the need for the Grants & Contracts Of-fice to comply with strict financial reporting requirements. Each quar-ter the Grants & Contracts Office reports all activity by project to a centrally located FederalReport-ing.gov site. The primary focus of this so-called “1512 reporting” is oversight of how the funds were expended and how many jobs were

thereby created or retained.

In addition to the review of ARRA funding from the Federal govern-ment, ARRA grants continue to be heavily targeted by our external audi-tors. We are happy to report that since receipt of ARRA funding, Miami University has never been found to be in non-compliance of ARRA funding regulations.

The Grants & Contracts Office re-mains committed to promoting re-sponsible stewardship of ARRA funds. If you have any questions related to ARRA funding, please call our office at 529-5405.

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maining ARRA funds. All ARRA

projects are targeted to end by Sep-

tember 30, 2013. Principal Investi-

gators of active grants have been

encouraged to contact the appropri-

ate program officer or agency con-

tact if a grant has a later end date.

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ARRA projects at

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is committed to

responsible steward-

ship of ARRA funds.

OARS Research News December 2012 12

Total support from external sources exceeds $21M in FY12 by Jim Oris Associate Provost for Research

& Dean of the Graduate School

E xternal funding provides Miami University faculty, students and staff increased opportunities to engage in inquiry and the creation of knowledge. In the most recent fiscal year (FY12), Miami received 281 awards from external sources. From July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012, pro-jects initiated by University faculty and staff yielded $21,341,475 in support from these sources.

This amount includes $9,562 in royalties, but excludes $23,770,924 in student financial aid. Federal f u nd i n g s o u r c e s p r o v i d ed $14,417,243, representing nearly 70% of Miami’s external funds. Two federal agencies, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were responsible for 57.7% of Miami’s federal awards, with the NSF contributing $6,156,244 and the NIH contributing $2,160,389 .

Please see the figures at right for more detailed information about the sources and purposes of funding awarded in FY12.

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to Industry & Business

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22 submissions

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Number of Awards, by Source

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Compliance training matters Students, staff and faculty whose

research is supported by NIH or

NSF are required to participate in

Responsible Conduct of Research

(RCR) training. This training is of-

fered in six weekly sessions begin-

ning March 20, 2013. These ses-

sions are open to any interested

party, not just those funded by NIH

or NSF.

Alternatively, departments and pro-

grams may develop their own cus-

tomized RCR program. Please con-

tact the Compliance Office for more

information about program require-

ments.

Faculty, staff and students interact-

ing with human and animal research

subjects can now look up Compli-

ance Training completion status

and dates with an online utility at

www.miamioh.edu/compliance/

rco_training_info.htm (requires log-

in). Please note that while faculty

can access all records, students can

access only their own records.

If you have questions or suggestions

regarding compliance issues, please

contact Jennifer Sutton, Assistant

Director of Compliance, at 529-0454

or [email protected] or Neal

Sullivan, Director of Compliance, at

529-2488 or [email protected].

When submitting IRB applications, avoid the high-volume months of October and March by Neal Sullivan Director of Research Compliance

A s the “IRB Review Activity: 2000-2012” chart at right illus-trates, demand for IRB approvals has trended upward, growing 400% between 2000 and 2010. Despite declines since 2010 (which are like-ly due to the adoption of the exemp-tion screening and certification pro-cess, which excludes qualifying pro-jects from annual review require-ments.), demand remains relatively high.

Among the busiest months for the IRB and Research Compliance Of-fice are October and March, when many applications linked to aca-demic activity (classes and graduate program development) are submit-ted. The review process during the-se months is slowed not only by the increased volume of submissions, but also by the number of appli-cants who are new researchers whose work takes longer for the IRB and Compliance Office to re-view. The “IRB Review Activity: 2007-2012” chart at right shows historic submission patterns by month.

Researchers are encouraged to plan their IRB application submissions to avoid these peak months when possible.

OARS Research News December 2012 14

Funding opportunity research assistance always available by Heather Beattey Johnston OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

B ecause the t ime of researchers is better spent delving into issues in their field than hunt-ing for grants, OARS offers several services designed to streamline the funding opportunity research pro-cess.

Pivot

Pivot (formerly Community of Science, or COS) is a funding oppor-tunity database. Researchers can set up profiles that help them find po-tential collaborators and configure searches so that they receive auto-matic alerts about newly added funding opportunities that might be a good fit for their work.

Listservs

OARS currently maintains 46 listservs used to notify research fac-ulty and staf f of funding

opportunities.

Personalized assistance

If Pivot and the OARS listservs are not helping you find viable funding opportunities, it may be helpful to meet with an OARS staffer to discuss the specifics of your work and your funding needs. We will then work to iden-tify relevant opportunities for your consideration.

For help with Pivot, to be added to an OARS listserv or to schedule a meeting to share your research funding requirements, contact OARS Assistant Director and Information Coordinator Heather Johnston at 529-1760 or [email protected].

Please join the

Office for the Advancement of Research & Scholarship

for

� the 3rd Annual �

PROPOSALS & AWARDS CEREMONY honoring

faculty and stafffaculty and stafffaculty and stafffaculty and staff who submitted proposals and/or received awards

from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012

The McMillan Hall Great Room (212)

Thursday, February 7, 2013

4:30-5:30pm

Light refreshments will be served RSVP [email protected] by Friday, February 1, 2013

Office for the Advancement of Research & Scholarship MiamiOH.edu/OARS

Miami University is an equal opportunity educational institution and employer Produced by Heather Beattey Johnston, OARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator December 2012

Access Pivot at

http://pivot.cos.com must be on campus or connected to VPN

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RESEARCH NEWSa publication of the Offi ce for the Advancement of Research & Scholarship at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio • MiamiOH.edu/OARS

February 2013OARS

In this issueWelcome ............................................ 1Shoupp Awards ................................. 2Mark Krekeler profi le ....................... 3Reasons to propose, OARS help ..... 4Myaamia Project ............................... 5Paul Urayama profi le ....................... 6Rose Marie Ward profi le .................. 7Council on Undergrad Research ..... 8Ohio Third Frontier program ............ 9NSF proposal changes ...................10Compliance .....................................11Pivot quick start guide ...................12

Welcome to the latest edition of OARS Research News. Spring is just around the corner, and

with that comes the deadline to apply for Research Incentive funds and for Shoupp Awards. You can learn more about the Shoupp program for business partner-ships and commercialization on page 2. In it, OARS Assistant Director and Infor-mation Coordinator, Heather Johnston o! ers an overview of this award, which supports work relevant to the Ohio " ird Frontier initiative.

Speaking of Ohio " ird Frontier, Direc-tor of Technology Transfer and Business Partnerships, Reid Smith, takes a closer look at this initiative on page 9. " e fea-ture, which explains the purpose of the " ird Frontier’s Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund, is the # rst in a series of articles about " ird Frontier programs that will appear in the next several issues of OARS Research News.

Elsewhere in the issue, we take a look back at the 2012 Graduate Research Forum, bringing you the list of top pre-senter award recipients, originally an-

nounced in December. We also look forward to the Undergraduate Research Forum to be held at the Shriver Center on April 10.

In other news, we pro# le three teach-er-scholars whose e! orts to engage stu-dents in their research are inspiring. Mark Krekeler (Geology & Environmen-tal Earth Science), a past Shoupp Award

recipient, has involved at least a dozen students in his work concentrating rare earth minerals from recycled waste. Paul Urayama’s (Physics) mentorship of stu-dents while they work together to under-stand the pressure-induced responses of cellular metabolism caught the attention of the publication International Inno-vations, which featured him in a recent issue. Rose Marie Ward (Kinesiology & Health) consistently includes undergrad-uates in her research, collaborating with them on more than 70 projects looking at alcohol consumption or sexual assault over the past 10 years.

We also mark the evolution of the Myaamia Project into the Myaamia Cen-ter with a pro# le of this unique partner-ship between Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Coverage of administrative issues begins on page 10, with a review of recent chang-es to rules for submitting NSF proposals, brought to you by Director of Proposal Development, Tricia Callahan. Follow-ing that are Compliance reminders from Director of Research Compliance, Neal Sullivan. Finally, we wrap thing up with a guide to using the Pivot database to lo-cate funding opportunities.

Welcome to the latest issue of the OARS newsletterby Jim OrisAssociate Provost for Research& Dean of the Graduate School

Jim Oris

Apply for ResearchIncentive funds, Shoupp Award by March 22 Faculty interested in applying for Research Incentive funds and/or Shoupp Awards should submit pro-posals to Vanessa Gordon ([email protected]) by March 22.

Guidelines for both programs are available on the OARS website (Mi-amiOH.edu./oars).

OARS Research News February 2013 2

Miami University’s Shoupp Awards program supports ini-tial and exploratory activities

involving University faculty and students with business and industry. Named in honor of the late Dr. William E. Shoupp, a charter member of the Miami Univer-sity Research Advisory Council (MU-RAC), the awards are designed to sup-port the Ohio " ird Frontier initiative (see sidebar on page 9), which in turn is designed to bring additional federal re-search funds to Ohio.

Shoupp Awards recognize two project phases. In Phase I, researchers explore projects likely to be of interest to busi-ness and industry. In Phase II research-ers work to establish business and in-dustry collaborations that will generate external funding.

Phase I• $5000 maximum award• No match from an industrial part-

ner required• Activities include preliminary

research and acquisition of data necessary to secure a commitment to further collaboration

• Final report due within six months of award date

Phase II• $10,000-$20,000 award

• Equal or greater match from a business or industrial partner required

• Supports new collaborations, not extensions of existing partnership

• Activities include gathering and presenting data that will lead to further funding from business and industry or a federal agency

• Final report due within 30 days of the completion of the one-year grant period

All continuing Miami faculty are eligi-ble for grants made through the Shoupp Awards program. Proposals for projects should be clear, concise and understand-able to the non-specialist. It is suggest-ed that proposals include a cover sheet, narrative, supporting documentation and a budget, including justi# cation. A complete list of requirements and specif-ic guidelines for each Phase can be found on the OARS website at MiamiOH.edu/oars/mu_research/oars_programs/shoupp.php. Proposals should be sub-mitted electronically to Vanessa Gordon ([email protected]) by 5:00pm on March 22.

Projects to be funded through the pro-gram will be selected by the Associ-ate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, with advice from

Grad Research Forum presenter awards announced

The Graduate Research Forum (GRF) is an opportunity for gradu-ate students to share their schol-arship with the University com-munity. The 2012 GRF was held Friday, November 2. Top present-er awards, announced in Decem-ber, went to:

Oral Presentations

• Stephen Holtkamp, Geology

• Robert Magorien, Architecture

• Jennifer Tully, Geology

Poster Presentations

• Yunluan Cui, Botany

• Tomasz Marchlewski, Geology

• Jamie Pierson, Psychology

Shoupp Awards support tech commercializationby Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assitant Director &Information Coordinator

Learn more aboutapplying for a Shoupp at MiamiOH.edu/oars

MURAC. Prinicpal Investigators (PI’s) may be invited to present their work to MURAC and to answer the committee’s questions.

Recipients of the 2011-2012 Shoupp Award include:Phase I

• Dmitriy Garmatyuk (Electrical & Computer Engineering), for “Exper-imental Study of Cognitive Radar Sensor for Target Detection”

• Lei Kerr (Chemical & Paper Engi-neering), for “Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cells on Paper Substrates”

• Kumar Singh (Mechanical & Man-ufacturing Engineering), for “To-wards the Development of Models and Controllers for Next Generation Rotors”

Phase II• Samir Bali (Physics), for “Measure-

ment of the Refractive Index and Attenuation Coe$ cient of Turbid Media”

• Herbert Jaeger and Michael Pechan (Physics), for “Linear Generator for Novel Fixed-Sha% Wind Turbine”

• Mark Krekeler (Geology), for “Pilot Investigations of Two Energy Applications Utilizing Nanotechnol-ogy Derived from Recycled Battery Waste” (see article on page 3)

• Craig Williamson (Zoology), for “Development of a Novel Optical Sensor to Detect Dissolved Organic Matter”

OARS Research News February 2013 3

If you were to look up “teacher-schol-ar” in the dictionary, you might just # nd Dr. Mark Krekeler’s picture next

to the de# nition. An assistant professor in the Department of Geology & Environ-mental Earth Science, Krekeler is passion-ate not only about his research, but also about helping to develop strong students capable of thinking critically. “I really en-joy building competitive students,” he says with obvious enthusiasm. “I really like that.”

Over the course of the past two years, Krekeler, who specializes in environmen-tal geology, has involved at least a dozen students in his research on concentrating rare earth elements from recycled waste. While not particularly rare, per se, rare earths are not o% en found in concentrat-ed deposits, which makes mining them di$ cult and expensive. However, these metals are crucial in the manufacture of energy-e$ cient and alternative energy products, including electric vehicles and wind turbines. " e vast majority of cur-rent rare earth production is centered in China, and developing rare earth capacity in the U.S. is becoming increasingly crit-ical.

Krekeler and his students are working with a manganese oxide called crypto-melane to capture rare earth metals from waste streams, such as hospital wastewater (certain medications contain signi# cant concentrations of the minerals, particu-

larly gadolinium), and to reduce pollutant concentrations in the environment using materials recycled from batteries. It is this latter e! ort that has piqued the interest of the Cincinnati-based consumer products giant, Procter & Gamble (P&G).

" e relationship with P&G was catalyzed by Krekeler’s receipt of an internal Shoupp Award for 2011-2012 (see article on page 2). Says Krekeler, “" e Shoupp was a force multiplier because it showed that the university is interested in the project and willing to put some real money in, so it compelled P&G to put more money in.”

Krekeler believes businesses like P&G rec-ognize that university research is a good value. “I think that a university such as Miami, can enable exploratory projects to be done at a far, far lower cost than a busi-

Teacher-scholar Krekeler’s research catalyzed by Shoupp Awardby Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director &Information Coordinator

“The Shoupp was a force multiplier.”

Krekeler’s studentsGeology & EnvironmentalEarth Science

Current studentsM.S.: Heather Barrett

Undergraduates:Michelle Burke, Liz O’Malley, Amy Thrailkill

Former studentsM.S: Cindy Tselepis-Loertscher

Undergraduates: ChrisBurnette, Alyssa Ferraro, Amanda Meyer, Jared Minges

Engineering

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Ryan Flannery

Former students (M.S.)Lulu Jiang, Zach McCoy

Art

Tricia Doran (former undergrad)

Dr. Mark Krekeler (second from left) is pictured with students he’s mentored.

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ness can execute,” he says. “To hire a good technical sta! person for P&G costs in the ballpark of $200,000 a year. " at’s a big commitment.” In contrast, the $130,000 P&G has invested in Krekeler’s research over the last two years seems like a relative bargain.

In keeping with the intent of the Shoupp Award, Krekeler’s research has produced intellectual property with market poten-tial. “We’re quite close to being able to # le some provisional patents,” he says. “What needs to happen next is some market identi# cation, and it’s nice to have P&G as a partner in that.”

But Krekeler and P&G are excited about the research not only because of the com-mercialization potential of this particular technology, but also because of the role it plays in developing the workforce neces-sary for Ohio and the country as a whole to succeed as a knowledge-based econo-my. In the two years they’ve been work-

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6 good reasons to begin work-ing on a grant proposal today by Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director &Information Coordinator

Promotionand tenure

Enough said.

Personneland equipment

External funds can # nance the per-sonnel and equipment you need to ac-complish your objectives. Could you accomplish more with an additional lab tech or a statistician? Is the lack of a benchtop wind tunnel preventing you from investigating an interesting ques-tion? Getting what you need might be just a proposal away.

TimeExternal funds can buy you time, in the form of course buy-outs and summer support. Many funding agencies, in-cluding the NSF, consider research part of a faculty member’s normal duties for which he or she receives a salary from an employer. However, researchers who are covered by a nine- or ten-month contract at their institutions do not or-dinarily have work obligations in the summer, making any such work outside the scope of normal duties and there-fore eligible for limited salary support.

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TravelIf advancing your research requires travel, then looking for outside funding might be the ticket (or at least buy you one). Likewise if you need to travel in order to disseminate your # ndings.

StudentsGrants can provide opportunities for students to engage in research, some-thing that, as Mark Krekeler puts it in the article on page 3, “gives them a tremendous strategic advantage” a% er graduation.

6(No)=1(Yes)Statistically speaking*, a researcher has to have # ve to six proposals declined be-fore having one accepted. " at means even a “failed” proposal puts you one step closer to achieving your objectives.

*Based on 2011-2012 funding rates for NSF, NIH and other Federal agencies

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programs and proposal de-velopment services are pro-

vided by Anne Schauer, Director of Sponsored Programs and Tricia Calla-han, Director of Proposal Development. Anne and Tricia can assist you in obtain-ing program guidelines, application kits and award lists. In addition, they will help you outline a proposal and develop a budget that complies with the policies and regulations of your potential spon-sor. Finally, they will coordinate the in-ternal sign-o! procedure as required.

Researchers on the Regional campuses

New areas of responsibility for OARS staff Schauer & Callahan

may also take advantage of “local” ser-vices provided by Amy Lamborg, Re-gional Director of Grant Development and Amy Stander, Regional Grant & Development Writer.

In OARS, responsibility for services is divided by academic department and Center, and there have been some re-cent changes to Anne’s and Tricia’s areas of responsibility. Anne is now available to assist researchers in Geology, Geog-raphy, Microbiology and the Center for Entrepreneurship, while Tricia is avail-able to help those in English. " e full list of areas of responsibility by academ-ic department and Center is available on the OARS website at MiamiOH.edu/oars/proposal_development/consul-tants.php.

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Krekeler continued from page 3ing on the project, Krekeler’s students (see sidebar on page 3) have delivered 12 presentations at national meetings and produced three peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition, the work was the central project for two Masters students. Krekeler says that the opportunity to en-gage in research provides students with a “tremendous strategic advantage” in the marketplace.

As if all that weren’t enough, Krekeler’s re-search has also led him to team up with Dr. Catherine Almquist, an associate professor in the Department of Chem-ical & Paper Engineering. He credits the

Shoupp Award for the partnership, saying that it allowed him to take a risk on an in-terdisciplinary collaboration he wouldn’t have been able to undertake otherwise. " e $20,000 Miami University invested in Krekeler through the Shoupp program has the potential to pay o! big time: if a pro-posal Krekeler and Almquist are currently developing is funded by the National Sci-ence Foundation, it will bring $150,000 in Federal money to the University.

All in all, it’s easy to see why Krekeler is such a fan of the Shoupp Awards program. As he says, “" e Shoupp really is a catalyst for moving things forward, so you get a surge out of it and it’s an extremely helpful program. " ere’s a lot of good it can do.”

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Formed in 2001 to help advance the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma’s emerging e! orts to revitalize

its ancestral language and culture, the Myaamia Project is a collaborative e! ort between the Tribe and Miami Universi-ty. Sta! ed by three Miami Tribe mem-bers, including Director Daryl Baldwin, the Project develops educational models and materials for the Miami Tribe com-munity to engage with their history, cul-ture and language.

" e reciprocal relationship between the Tribe and the University is one of deep respect and trust, exempli# ed by the Myaamia word, neepwaantiinki, which means, “we learn from each other.” While the Tribal community bene# ts from the intellectual products coming out of the Project, Miami University stu-dents bene# t from the Project’s presence on campus. " rough visits by Myaamia Project sta! to their classes, students learn about a rich, diverse culture, and have the opportunity to engage in re-al-life assignments and research applica-tions that bene# t the Tribal community.

By mutual agreement, Myaamia Project

the ways of knowing among the People who use the languages.

And that’s what concerns Baldwin and Miami Tribal o$ cials and community members the most. Feeling very strong-ly about connecting Tribal youth to their ancestral knowledge, the Tribe works with them throughout their education, from inception to adulthood. Far from

Myaamia Project awarded $124K NEH grant to help document endangered Tribal language, evolves to become Myaamia Centerby Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director &Information Coordinator

encouraging these young people to dwell in the past, the intent is to give them a con# dence that comes from knowing who they are, a con# dence that will allow them to succeed in the modern world.

As the scope of work related to the Myaamia Project expanded, the next logical step within the University struc-ture was for the Project to evolve into the Myaamia Center. " at is what o$ -cially happened last month, when Asso-ciate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Jim Oris, traveled to Miami, Oklahoma to present to Miami Chief " omas Gamble a letter of acceptance of the Myaamia Center.

While in Oklahoma, Oris attended the Tribe’s anuual Stomp Dance celebration, where he had the opportunity to expe-rience living, breathing Miami culture. “It was moving,” said Oris, “and I’m hon-ored to represent the University in ex-panding the relationship with the Miami Tribe.” " at’s something the Miami Peo-ple can appreciate. Says Baldwin, “We come from a culture where relationship is the # rst and most important thing.”

“Languagesrefl ect human

knowledge systems.”

Timeline of Miami University/Miami Tribe relations

general operating and personnel ex-penses are shared by the Miami Tribe and Miami University. However, out-side funding is required for large-scale projects that will expand the work of the Myaamia Project. Recently, the Project received a $124,292 grant from the Na-tional Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Documenting Endangered Lan-guages (DEL) program. DEL grants are highly competitive, and Principal In-vestigator Daryl Baldwin attributes the achievement to the Project’s ten-plus years of work, which have brought it na-tional recognition.

" e NEH estimates that half of the 6000-7000 languages currently being used in the world are endangered. “Languag-es re& ect human knowledge systems,” Baldwin says, so what’s at risk are not just the languages themselves, but also

1972Miami Chief Forest Olds visits University, first formal lines of communication between Tribe and University established

1974Miami University establishes Heritage Award tuition waiver for Native American students

1991Miami Tribe students enroll at Miami University for the first time, receive Heritage Awards

2001Myaamia Project established

2006Memorandum of Understanding expands relationship between Tribe and University

2008Memorandum of Understanding expands relationship between Tribe and University

2013Myaamia Project becomes Myaami Center

Associate Provost Jim Oris (left), presents the Myaamia Center letter of acceptance to Miami Chief Tom Gamble, while Myaamia Center Director Daryl Baldwin (right) looks on.

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Dr. Paul Urayama, associate pro-fessor of physics at Miami Uni-versity, was recently featured in

the publication International Innovations for his biophysics research and his com-mitment to mentoring undergraduates. " e feature, “Engaging students in bio-physics research”, highlights not only Urayama’s research, but also his commit-ment to including undergraduates in his work.

Currently, Urayama has seven under-graduate and three master’s students working in his lab, and has worked pri-marily with undergraduate students since coming to Miami in 2003.

“A research experience at this stage helps [the students] to see what hands-on sci-ence is like,” Urayama says. “Many have become so pro# cient, I # nd myself learn-ing from them.”

Urayama’s research focuses on the piezo-physiological (pressure-induced) re-sponses of cellular metabolism. “Why is it that certain organisms need pressure to survive?” he asks. “Why are certain organisms tolerant of it? Why are certain organisms sensitive to it?”

He and his team have developed a high-pressure chamber and a perfusion system, and are currently studying the e! ect high pressure has on Saccharomy-ces cerevisiae, commonly known as bak-

er’s yeast, because it is a good model to study how the mitochondria, the area of the cell that converts energy into a usable form, will function under high pressure.

" e researchers shine lasers into a cell under pressure to examine the signal from nicotinamide adenine dinucleo-tide (NADH), a naturally-occuring & u-orescent molecule associated with the functioning of mitochondria. Based on the intensity and wavelength of light re-turned, they are able to determine how and in what way mitochondria are active.

Urayama’s research has implications for a wide variety of disciplines, including marine biology and the food, pharma-ceutical and biomedical industries. To

illustrate his work’s usefulness in the bio-medical industry, for instance, Urayama says, “If you could engineer enzymes to function well under extreme conditions, it could be useful.”

Urayama believes that because his re-search is multidisciplinary, he and his undergraduate researchers bene# t great-ly. “I’ve mentored people from a range of majors: physics, biological physics, en-gineering physics, chemistry, biochemis-try, mathematics, zoology, microbiology, exercise science, and graduates go on to a range of careers,” Urayama says. “It’s great for student learning because lab members are exposed to and work with people from di! erent backgrounds.”

Physics prof recognized for research, mentoringby Emily GlaserCommunications Intern

19th AnnualUndergraduateResearch Forumto be held April 10

Miami University undergraduate students will present results of in-dependent research projects and other creative activity at the Uni-versity’s Undergraduate Research Forum on April 10 at Shriver Cen-ter. Each student will present research results in a 15-minute oral synopsis, or in an interactive poster session. All sessions will be open to the public.

For more information, contact Martha Weber, OARS Undergradu-ate Research Coordinator, at 529-3600 or [email protected].

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Note: Some quotes appearing in this article originally appeared in International Innovations and are used with permission of Paul Urayama.

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Register for NCUR conference through March 12

The 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) will be held April 11-13, 2013 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

More than 3000 participants are expected to attend this event, where students from 300+ uni-versities and colleges will present their research and other scholarly work.

The deadline to register for the 2013 conference is March 12. For information or to register, visit cur.org/ncur_2013/.

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Prof takes undergrads to national conferenceby Emily GlaserCommunications Intern

It is widely assumed that college and university students binge drink more than the average person. However,

less consideration has been devoted to just how intoxicated students get, when they get intoxicated and what consequences they face. Dr. Rose Marie Ward, associate professor of kinesiology and health at Mi-ami University, and her team of 25 under-graduates are working on answering these questions and will present their # ndings at the National Conference on Undergradu-ate Research in April.

Ward and her students have been visiting Uptown Oxford on both weeknight and weekend evenings to breathalyze students to determine their blood alcohol level (BAL). Breathalyzed students then receive a follow up survey regarding the conse-quences they experienced as a result of their drinking, from hangovers to missing work or class.

Ward has worked with undergraduates on nearly 70 research projects looking at alcohol or sexual assault since coming to Miami in 2002 and believes collaborating with undergraduates is a mutually bene# -cial experience.

“For me, they provide excitement and in-sight into the topics that I research. For the students, it gives them practice forming a research question, # guring out how to as-sess a research question, test a question and communicate that question and result to others,” she says. “You just can’t learn

the process as intensely in the classroom.”

Senior Stephanie Babiarz is one of the undergraduates working with Ward, and will present on BAL and drinking motives in the Greek versus non-Greek commu-nities at the National Conference on Un-dergraduate Research. She echoes Ward’s sentiments on the bene# t of research.

“" e experience you gain from collecting data and writing your own research paper is beyond compare. I have gone through every step in the process of a research de-sign, all the way to presentation and pub-lication, with a lot of help from Dr. Ward,” Babiarz says. “I have no doubt that the ex-perience has not only helped me get into graduate school, but will put me on top once in graduate school.”

In keeping with her commitment to un-dergraduate research, Ward is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Re-

search (CUR), an organization dedicated to supporting and promoting collabo-rative research between undergraduate students and faculty (see article on page 8). Ward values CUR because it gives her “access to announcements on conferences and funding for undergraduate research, and the opportunity to communicate with professors at other universities about their research.”

In addition to presenting the data at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ward and her team are work-ing on manuscripts for publication. While they have not yet run any data, they do have some preliminary observations.

“Regardless of the day of the week, stu-dents are intoxicated,” Ward says, “regard-less of how early they tell us they have obligations in the morning, some students are still drinking.”

Dr. Rose Marie Ward (center) poses with research students Amelia Kinsella (left) and Steph-anie Babiarz (right) in front of a 2012 NCUR poster.

According to Ward, a surprising # nding is how little students seem to understand about BAL. During the breathalyzing, re-searchers ask the students to guess their blood alcohol level. “" e students think their BAL is much higher than it actually is,” Ward says.

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The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) was founded in 1978 by a group of chemists from

private liberal arts colleges who wanted to provide information about their research, especially that done in collaboration with students. Since that time CUR has grown to include all disciplines and all types of institutions. Today, members include nearly 7000 individuals and over 600 col-leges and universities, including Miami University.

CUR broadly de# nes undergraduate re-search as “an inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or cre-ative contribution to the discipline.” " e Council’s mission is to support students’ research and scholarship e! orts by sup-porting and promoting high-quality col-laboration between students and faculty. Bene# ts to this approach include:

• Enriched student learning• Increased retention• Increased enrollment in graduate

education• Improved career preparation• Enhanced critical thinking, creativity

and problem solving• Greater intellectual independence• Better understanding of research

methodology

• Achievement of an innovation-orient-ed culture

As well as working with agencies and foundations to enhance research oppor-tunities for faculty and students, CUR’s leadership also:

• Supports faculty development through institutes in institutionalizing undergraduate research; initiating and sustaining undergraduate research programs; proposal writing; social sci-ences and humanities; and beginning a research program.

• Publishes books and articles related to creating, managing, and evaluating undergraduate research programs and mentoring undergraduate researchers.

• Assists administrators and faculty members in improving and assessing the research environment at their institutions.

• Provides information on the impor-tance of undergraduate research to state legislatures, private foundations, government agencies and the U.S. Congress.

" ese publications and outreach activities are designed to share successful models and strategies for establishing and insti-tutionalizing undergraduate research pro-grams.

CUR welcomes faculty and administra-tors from all academic institutions, with individual members a$ liating with one of eleven divisions:

• Arts and humanities

• Biology• Chemistry• Geosciences• Health sciences• Mathematics and computer science• Physics and astronomy• Psychology• Social sciences• Undergraduate research program

directors• At-large division for administrators

and other disciplines

“We invite our academic community to take full advantage of this networking and professional development opportuni-ty,” says Associate Provost Jim Oris. To encourage participation in CUR, Miami University maintains an enhanced institu-tional membership, which covers all Mi-ami a$ liates’ membership costs. To join CUR, follow these steps:

1. Visit http://www.cur.org.2. Click the “Join CUR” link.3. Click on “Individual Member-

ship.”4. Fill in your personal info.5. Choose “Miami University

(OH)” as your institution.

6. Click “OK” in the pop-up window con# rming Miami’s enhanced institutional member-ship; this makes your individual membership free.

Complimentary CUR membership benefits MU faculty, studentsAdapted from CUR’s “Fact Sheet” and “Frequently Asked Questions”http://www.cur.org/about_cur/

MU UndergraduatePresentation Awards available Any student whose work has been accepted for presentation at a con-ference and who will be enrolled as a Miami University undergraduate at the time of the presentation is eligible to apply for an Undergradu-ate Presentation Award (UPA) of up to $200.

Work should be the result of inde-pendent research or creative activi-ty the student conducted under the guidance of a Miami faculty mentor or advisor.

An application should be submit-ted prior to conference attendance. Details at MiamiOH.edu/undergr-adresearch.

MIAMI UNIVERSITY

IS AN ENHANCED INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF THE

COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Learning Through Research

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The primary goal of the Ohio " ird Frontier’s Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund

(TVSF) is to create economic growth in the state. It recognizes and seeks to mit-igate the high-risk nature of most aca-demic innovations that o% en prevents them from attracting capital. To be el-igible for support through the TVSF, a technology must be in the process of se-curing patent protection and fall within one of the following areas:

• Advanced materials (polymers, ceramics, composites, carbon fibers, nanotubes, specialty metals and alloys)

• Aeropropulsion power management;• Fuel cells and energy storage;• Medical technology (imaging, surgi-

cal, implant devices) and regenera-tive medicine;

• Business and healthcare so% ware;• Sensing and automation;• Situational awareness and surveil-

lance systems;• Solar photovoltaics.

Working through start-up companies in-volved in the commercialization of new and emerging technologies, the TVSF recognizes two phases. Phase 1 focuses on technology validation, funding activi-

ties such as prototyping, product demon-strations, scale-up or other development activities that have been identi# ed as key milestones in further commercializa-tion e! orts. Partnerships with potential

licensees based in Ohio are encouraged. Successful project proposals establish a compelling strategy to build a bridge of research and development results that will span the chasm between concept/proof-of-principle and validation. " is critical transition is sometimes called “the valley of death” because of the pro-pensity for academic innovations to falter

An Ohio Third Frontier program, Tech Validation & Start-Up Fund fosters economic growthby Reid SmithDirector of Technology Transfer & Business Partnerships

About Ohio Third Frontier and our series on its higher ed programsCreated in 2002 as an initia-tive of the Ohio Development Services Agency, Ohio Third Frontier brings together leaders from industry, academia and government. According to the Third Frontier website, it in-tends to “create an innovation ecosystem that supports the effi cient and seamless tran-sition of great ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace.”

In the next several issues, Miami’s Director of Technology Transfer and Business Partnerships, Reid Smith, will examine the four Third Frontier programs of greatest rele-vance to higher education.

� In this issueTech Validation & Start-Up Fund

� AprilInnovation Platform Program

� SeptemberPre-Seed Fund/Entrepre-neurial Support Programs

� NovemberInternship Programs

TVSF seeks toattract capital by mitigating risk.

at this stage.

Phase 2 focuses on start-up funding to support further development activities, such as beta prototype development or test marketing, which are designed to enhance the ability of a # rm to raise additional capital and to accelerate the time-to-market. Only start-ups or small business licensees based in Ohio are eli-gible for funding in this phase.

" e number of projects supported by the Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund is contingent upon available funding ($6 million in FY12) and mul-tiple RFP’s are posted each year. If you are working on a technology you think might be eligible for support through the TVSF, please contact Reid Smith, Miami’s Director of Technology Trans-fer and Business Partnerships, at [email protected] or 529-3753.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a new Proposals and Awards Policies and Proce-

dures Guide (PAPPG) e! ective January 14, 2013. Adapted from an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the fol-lowing paragraphs outline the changes you need to be aware of for your upcom-ing submissions.

PROJECT SUMMARY" e Project Summary must be written three di! erent sections: Overview, Intel-lectual Merit, and Broader Impacts. In-formation must be entered into each of the FastLane text boxes, or the proposal will not be accepted. " e character limit for all three boxes combined is 4600 char-acters.

OverviewInsert a self-contained description of the activity that would result if the pro-posal were funded and include a state-ment of objectives and methods to be employed.

Intellectual MeritDescribe the potential of the proposed activity to meet the Intellectual Merit criterion.

Broader ImpactsDescribe the potential of the proposed activity to meet the Broader Impacts criterion.

A note about special characters: While most proposers will not need to use special characters, such as mathemati-cal symbols or Greek letters, those who do (and only those who do) may upload their Project Summary as a Supplemen-tary Document, checking the box to indi-cate this. " e uploaded document mustinclude an overview and separate state-ments on each of the merit review criters. It must also adhere to the 4600 character limit.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH" e Biosketch has changed to allow for more than just publications. Instead of # ve closely related and # ve other signi# -cant publications, you can now list # ve re-lated and # ve other signi# cant products.

Products can include, but are not limited to, patents, data sets, so% ware and copy-rights. If your # eld has a citation style for describing those products, use it. If not, list them in a way that will allow a review-er to locate them if he or she so chooses.

Unacceptable products (i.e., things you shouldn’t bother listing) include unpub-lished articles and invited lectures.

FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER RESOURCESBecause researchers have tried to show additional time and institutional support in their budgets and budget justi# cations, violating NSF’s “No Voluntary Cost Shar-ing” rule, the NSF now allows them to expand upon institutional commitment in the Facilities section of the proposal.

Researchers need to be aware of new rules for NSF proposalsby Tricia CallahanDirector of ProposalDevelopment Helpful websites

NSF’s summary of changeshttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/poli-cydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/gpg_sigchanges.jsp

CHE’s overview of changeshttp://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Underesti-

mate-NSFs-New/136521/

NSF PAPPGhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/

policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/index.jsp

“Merit Review” section of PAPPGhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/

policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/gpg_3.jsp#IIIA

" e NSF does not normally provide sal-ary support during the academic year; it considers research part of a faculty mem-ber’s normal duties, covered by salary from the institution that employs him or her. If a principal investigator will receive no salary from a grant, the investigator’s name should not appear in the proposal’s budget. Rather, the investigator’s contri-bution to the project should be discussed in the facilities form. Don’t attach a dol-lar # gure to anything discussed in the facilities section. Detailed # nancial infor-mation could be interpreted as voluntary cost sharing, which is not permitted in NSF grants. If for some reason you have no facilities, equipment, or resources to

Project Summary is limited to 4600 characters across

3 text boxes

describe, write a brief statement to that e! ect on the form. Eventually (probably this spring) FastLane will not accept your proposal if you leave the facilities section blank.

If you have questions about the changes, please contact:

Anne Schauer at [email protected] or 529-3735, orTricia Callahan at [email protected] or 529-1795.

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Please be aware of the following re-search compliance policies in e! ect at Miami:

RESPONSIBLE CONDUCTOF RESEARCHIf you receive new funding from NIH or NSF, all faculty, students and sta! whose research is supported by these agencies are required to participate in Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) instruction. " ese agencies have set minimum re-quirements, which at Miami, are fulfilled through a series of didactic forums of-fered each semester. Aside from regu-latory requirements, faculty can require graduate student advisees to attend the training regardless of the funding sources. More information and the forum schedule can be found at MiamiOH.edu/compli-ance/rcr/rcr_training.htm.

ANIMAL CARECompletion of AALAS online training is required for all faculty, sta! , and students interacting independently with animals for research, teaching, testing or demon-stration. As soon as is possible, these peo-ple are also required to attend an orienta-tion to the animal care program at Miami. " ese orientations are held near the be-ginning and end of each semester and at the beginning of the summer. More im-portant than both the online training and classroom orientation, is the endorsement by the faculty advisor that the student is

quali# ed for the assigned activities..

FINANCIAL CONFLICT OFINTEREST AND NIH (FCOI)" e National Institutes of Health have is-sued a ruling that alters the provisions for FCOI. Among the changes are a lowering of the minimum threshold to $5,000 and the requirement for declaration of a FCOI on a publicly accessible website. Changes are summarized at MiamiOH.edu/com-pliance/RCR_FCOI.htm

HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCHResearchers who routinely investigate similar populations and issues using sim-

Researchers are advised of compliance policiesby Neal SullivanDirector of Research Compliance

ilar methods, or instructors who assign their students projects that involve collect-ing data from human subjects using very similar propulations, topics and methods, should consider developing umbrella pro-tocols to cover the majority of the projects proposed. Individual projects can then be submitted and reviewed as amendments to the umbrella protocol.

If you have questions about any of these regulations, please contact Jennifer Sut-ton, Assistant Director of Compliance, at 529-0454 or [email protected] or Neal Sullivan, Director of Com-pliance, at 529-2488 or [email protected].

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CUR Quarterly is accepting prospec-tuses for human rights articles through March 15The editors of the CUR Quarterly journal are accepting prospectus-es for articles or vignettes for their Spring 2014 issue. The theme of the issue is “Human Rights and Undergraduate Research.”

Anyone interested in contribut-ing an article or vignette for this themed issue should submit a 300-500 word prospectus by March 15, 2013. Accepted au-thors will need to submit full-length (2000-3500 words) text by June 1, 2013, for review and editing.

To submit a prospectus, visit CURQ.msubmit.net. Once there, you will need to register for an ac-count and then login. Once you are logged in, the Submit Man-uscript link will be visible -- click it and then click the Prospectus button.

The same process can be used to submit non-theme articles at any time.

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Guide to COS Pivot helps you find funding opps in 3 easy steps

With a database of fund-ing opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion,

COS Pivot is a powerful tool re-searchers can use to identify poten-tial funding sources.

Get started quickly by following the three easy steps outlined here, or contact OARS Information Coordi-nator, Heather Johnston, at [email protected] or 529-1760 for more advanced support.

1 While on campus or connect-ed to Miami’s VPN, navigate to pivot.cos.com.

2 Enter terms in the Search funding opportunities box, then click the Search Pivot button.

OR

Click the Advanced Search link.

If the Search funding opportunities box is not visible, click the Funding tab.

2.1 Advanced SearchSelect fi elds from the pull-down menus on the left and en-ter terms in the search boxes on the right, paying atten-tion to the Boolean operators. Click the Search button.

{Enter search terms here

3 View details of an opportunity by clicking on its title in the Results list.

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In brief . . .• Please remember to download

a new Proposal Approval Form from the OARS website each time you need to fi ll one out. Doing so ensures you use the most up-to-date version of the document.

• Faculty members interested in mentoring a first year student through the FYRE program are invited to develop a short pro-motional paragraph about their research. Project summaries will be posted on the OARS website to attract first year stu-dents to become involved in fac-ulty mentored research projects. Read more about the FYRE program and look through the faculty profiles at http://www.Mi-amiOH.edu/undergradresearch.

• The NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration will be held June 27-28 in Baltimore. This seminar is intended to demys-tify the application and review process; clarify federal regula-tions and policies; and highlight current areas of special interest or concern.

Welcome to the latest issueby Jim OrisAssociate Provost for Research& Dean of the Graduate School

Each April Mi-ami Univer-sity’s Under-

graduate Research Forum celebrates independent inqui-ry by undergrad-uate students. It is ! tting, then, that this issue of OARS Research News also

celebrates the research achievements of Miami undergraduate students.

Perhaps the most exciting news we re-port on in this issue is the formation of a new O" ce of Research for Under-graduates. For the ! rst time Miami will have an o" ce dedicated to coordinating and progressing undergraduate research. One bene! t we hope to see from the new o" ce is an even greater number of stu-dents participating in the types of expe-riences you will read about in this issue:

• On page 4, we tell you about senior Kate Goforth’s participation in Post-ers on the Hill, a student research forum organized by the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Selected from over 800 applicant projects, Goforth’s will be one of 60 posters presented at the event.

• On page 5, we bring you ! rst-hand accounts from student members of the Miami Chemical Society who attended the national meeting of the American Chemical Soceity to pres-ent their research.

• On page 8, we congratulate Miami students, including undergraduate Jillian Epstein, who have been of-fered prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

On a more personal note, OARS’ own Tricia Callahan re# ects her days as an undergraduate at Miami, and how her life path was altered as a result of the re-search she became involved in.

In faculty research news, we pro! le Paul Schae! er (Zoology), who recently re-ceived an NSF grant to support his work on bird migration, and we provide an overview of the role that research done in the Scripps Gerontology Center plays in developing state policy. In addition, we recognize all the faculty who received external funding awards in FY 2012.

Finally, we run down the bene! ts of (free!) CUR membership for Miami stu-dents, faculty and sta$ ; bring you the second in Reid Smith’s series on Ohio % ird Frontier programs; update you on compliance news; and tell you about changes coming to the OARS funding opportunity alert system.

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NSF funds prof’s bird migration researchby Emily GlaserCommunications Intern

Dr. Paul Schae! er of Miami Uni-versity is no stranger to research. % e assistant professor of Zoolo-

gy has been funded by the National Insti-tute of Health in the past to study obesity and metabolic adaptation. In January, he received a grant award of $582,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study bird migration.

Schae$ er is studying the gray catbird, a local songbird that lives near Oxford in the summer and migrates to the Yucatan Peninsula in the winter. He asks, “How do they deal with the energy demands of migration, and how can they control their body changes to make migration possible?”

“We were initially inspired by what we know of regulation of fat and tissue in humans,” Schae$ er says. “It’s clearly very di$ erent in birds.”

According to Schae$ er, the changes that the birds undergo before migration are pretty drastic. “% ey may keep a body weight of 30 grams in the summer, and add 15 to 20 grams of body weight when it’s time to migrate,” Schae$ er says. “% at’s more than half of their body weight, and they will use all that fuel for # ight.”

In addition, Schae$ er says even if they are never used, the bird’s # ight muscles will automatically grow when it is time to migrate. Schae$ er says the number one reason he wants to study this phenom-enon is to enhance the appreciation of

nature.

Besides enhancing appreciation of the migration phenomena, Schae$ er says his research helps us to better understand the mammals and how they relate to hu-mans.

“If we are interested in conservation of birds in general, understanding their abilities and their challenges is going to be important as well,” Schae$ er says. “We may very well share some commonalities with mammals that would be interesting for us as well.”

Schae$ er works with both undergraduate and graduate students to discover more about the migration process. Currently,

there are ! ve undergraduates and three graduate students working in his lab.

Researcher Paul Schaeffer studies gray catbirds like the one shown here

“If we’re interestedin the conservation

of birds, understanding their abilities and chal-lenges is important.”

OARS hosts “speed dating” event for researchersOn Thursday, March 28, OARS hosted a round table event for re-searchers interested in identifying collaborators for interdisciplinary research projects.

Jokingly referring to the event as “speed dating for researchers,” OARS staff asked participants to self-select a themed table. After a period of discussion with other researchers at the selected table, participants were given an oppor-tunity to move to a different table for discussions on another theme. The themes were:• Health and wellness• Women and minori-

ties in STEM• Sustainability• Pedagogy, curriculum and

student development• Advanced materi-

als and sensors• Human performance measures

Interdisciplinary collaborations resulting from the round table event are eligible to apply for up to $25,000 in internal seed money they will use to gather preliminary information and/or data neces-sary for developing a proposal for extramural funding. Up to three teams will receive the internal awards.

“Training the next generation is an im-portant next step in any research subject,” Schae$ er says. “It’s a lot of fun to get peo-ple into their ! rst research experiences.”

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Sometimes called the “silver tsuna-mi”, the aging of our population is unprecedented. Miami University’s

Scripps Gerontology Center has provided information about aging for over 40 years, with a strong focus on helping Ohio plan for the economic opportunities and chal-lenges of becoming an “old” state.

In 1990, there were only 9 of Ohio’s 88 counties where citizens age 60 and over made up more than 20% of the total pop-ulation. According to projections done by Scripps, however, those numbers will change dramatically by 2030, with only 7 counties expecting older populations be-low 25% of the total. % is dramatic shi& has far-reaching implications for families, the workforce, the economy, and long-term care.

Ohio Department of Aging Director Bon-nie Kantor-Burman agrees. Her recent testimony on the FY2014-2015 budget before the Ohio House of Representatives uses visual data from Scripps research to show this profound change. “Aging is ev-erybody’s business. % e research results matter”, she says, because they help “people embrace the idea that we must make bold, sweeping changes now to prepare to serve our growing and changing population.”

Some of those changes will include the ex-pansion of opportunities for older adults to remain active and engaged in their communities, while others will require re-

vamping our approach to public policies and services, according to Dr. Suzanne Kunkel, Director of the Scripps Gerontol-ogy Center. “To reap Ohio’s potential ‘lon-gevity dividend’, we need a better system of opportunities for older adults to remain healthy, independent, engaged, and, to the extent that they desire, economically pro-ductive.”

Researchers and a" liated faculty at the Scripps Gerontology Center are helping to identify ways that older workers can re-main employed or become re-employed, and they are involved in statewide initia-tives related to life-long learning and civic engagement. Education and employment for older adults can improve their own ! -nancial outlook, but a well-educated and experienced labor force can also give Ohio a competitive advantage in attracting and

retaining businesses.

% e need for change in response to the rap-id trend in aging is also evident in the state budget. Robert Applebaum, a professor of gerontology and Director of the Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project at Mi-ami’s Scripps Gerontology Center, says that the unprecedented trend toward wholesale aging of the population has important ! -nancial and policy implications.

Currently Medicaid, the public health in-surance program that primarily funds long-term care, accounts for 25% of Ohio’s budget. According to Applebaum, “If we don’t alter the way we deliver long-term care, by 2030, more than half the state bud-get will be Medicaid.”

To respond to these economic challenges, Ohio policymakers must ! gure out how

Scripps Gerontology Center helps Ohio develop policyby Matt CableResearch Dissemination & Communications Coordinator, Scripps Gerontology Center

to reduce long-term care expenses while maintaining or improving the standard of care. Helping them do that is a primary mission of the Scripps Gerontology Center, whose researchers, including Applebaum, routinely testify before and serve on leg-islative, state department-level, or gover-nor-appointed committees and advisory groups, including the Governor’s Uni! ed Long-Term Care Work Group.

Maps from the Scripps website ohio-population.org show how rapidly Ohio’s population is aging

“We need a better system of opportuni-ties for older adults to remain healthy,

independent, and engaged.”

Supported by Scripps research showing the cost-e$ ectiveness of home care, for ex-ample, Ohio has expanded its home care program, reducing nursing home use and saving more than $100 million in Medicaid funds annually.

% e Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) ac-knowledged the direct economic impact of these Medicaid savings in 2011 when they named Scripps an Ohio Center of Excellence. % e OBR also recognized that Scripps research “has a signi! cant, if indirect, impact on worker productivity, employer hiring and training costs, and worker income.” Scripps also contributes to the Ohio economy by bringing federal and private research dollars to the state.

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Miami University senior Kate Goforth will be presenting her research on April 23-24

at Posters on the Hill, a forum hosted by the Council for Undergraduate Re-search (CUR) on Capitol Hill that aims to help members of Congress under-stand the importance of undergraduate research. Goforth was selected from over 800 applicants, and her project, “Under-standing Mathematics Achievement: An Analysis of the E$ ects of Internal and Family Factors,” will be one of 60 posters presented at the event.

“We looked at access to healthcare, ac-cess to healthy food, and other fami-ly and individually based factors, and compared them to student achievement on a standardized math test,” Gofroth says. “We weren’t looking at the schools or teachers, because that’s already been looked at a lot.”

Goforth, a special education major, con-ducted her research through the Butler County Success Program (BCSP), an initiative to help children and families in poverty. She used the data from a survey that parents take at the beginning of the year, and compared it to students’ math scores. According to Goforth, the factors that had the most negative e$ ects on stu-dent math achievement were poor read-ing skills, parent pessimism and parents’ perceptions of their child’s skills. In oth-er words, if parents had a generally neg-ative outlook on life, their student did

MU senior presents research at CUR eventby Emily GlaserCommunications Intern

not perform as well. If parents did not believe their student performed well in school, the student generally did not.

Goforth and the other Posters on the Hill participants will have the chance to meet their congressional representatives and invite them to see their posters. “We are working with the government rela-tions o" cer to set up meetings with my representatives from Michigan and here in Oxford,” Goforth says. “% ey will get a chance to go around and see what we’re working on and see the direct impact of the grants they pass.”

CUR focuses speci! cally on the devel-opment of undergraduates, emphasiz-ing that undergraduates will make up the workforce in coming years. % e

early training made possible by federal research grants contributes to the devel-opment of a strong workforce. Accord-ing to CUR, the Posters on the Hill event presents an opportunity for Congress to engage with young researchers and un-derstand the impact undergraduate re-search has on the future of the country.

Research funded by federal agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) creates future jobs in emerging technol-ogies, fosters the development of clean energy and develops the next generation of scienti! c leaders. CUR hopes Posters on the Hill will encourage federal legis-lators to support research funding at the levels requested by the various agencies, including the $7.373 billion requested by NSF for FY2013.

OARS to host talk by retired NIH Scientifi c Review Offi cer

On Thursday, May 9, retired NIH Scientifi c Review Offi cer Dr. Keith Crutcher will offer his insider’s perspective on the National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH) peer review process.

Dr. Crutcher, Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery at the Universi-ty of Cincinnati, will speak from 3:00pm to 4:00pm in 218 Pearson Hall. His presentation will be fol-lowed with a question and answer session.

The event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served, so please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend. Ques-tions can be directed to Tricia Callahan, Director of Proposal Development, at 9-1795 or [email protected].

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Fi& een Miami undergraduate stu-dents who are members of the Mi-ami Chemical Society (MCS) re-

cently traveled to New Orleans to attend the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). % ree of them — Josh Kaine, Spenser Pruett, and Tessa Woodru! (see blurb at right) — agreed to keep journals doc-umenting their experiences. We share excerpts here.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5Spenser: My fellow chemists and I bus-tled through airport security with our carry-on luggage and poster tubes eagerly waiting for the moment our plane ! nally touched down in Louisiana.

Josh: We le& Miami around 3:30 in the a& ernoon and arrived down in the Big Easy around 1:15 in the morning.

Tessa: I was lucky to get on the same # ight as the rest of the group. Because I was traveling with ACS, instead of MCS, I had no say in my travel plans. However, I was not at the same hotel as everyone else, so once we got into the city we had to check in everyone to their hotel, then walk to my hotel.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6Josh: Typically at these conferences we spend the day before the meeting starts helping with a science outreach program for children in the area. Much to my dis-

appointment, this year there was no pro-gram arranged. On the bright side, this le& us with an entire day to explore the city.

Spenser: % e French Quarter was ev-erything I expected New Orleans to be. Every street corner was occupied by a local street performer, musician, or palm reader.

Josh: Later in the a& ernoon, we made our way to the convention center to pick up our badges and programs so that we could plan out our next couple of days at the meeting. % e technical program is the key to the meeting – it has all the in-

formation about every talk, poster, event, vendor, and workshop that will be at the conference. So, with the help of my book I set out to plan which events and talks I would participate in on Sunday.

Tessa: As an ACS student liaison, I had to attend an all-day meeting where we had many important conversations about how the undergraduate programming at the ACS National Meetings should be run and what will be going on at this meeting and the next two national meetings.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7Tessa: I had to be at the conference cen-

ter before 7:30 a.m to unload trunks of luggage tags, lanyards, pens, bumper stickers, and tons of reading materials for people who visit the the hospitality cen-ter. % e other student liaison and I had some volunteers to help out with this, but it still was a ton of work.

Spenser: % e ! rst day of the conference was a little overwhelming. % e conven-tion center was absolutely gigantic and there were always 20-plus presentations being given at any time, which meant it would be impossible to see everything.

Josh: A& er listening to a couple of talks I made my way down to the graduate school recruitment fair. % is event helps connect students with potential graduate schools. Because I volunteered to sta$ the event I did not get to look around

Miami Chemical Society students attend national meetinged. Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

Josh Kaine (top row, second from right), Spenser Pruett (bottom row, far left), Tessa Wood-ruff (bottom row, second from right), and other members of MCS presented the chapter’s activities at the “Successful Student Chapter” poster session of the ACS national meeting

About the studentsJosh Kaine, a senior majoring in biochemistry and biological physics, has attended previ-ous meetings of the ACS.

Spenser Pruett is a senior majoring in biochemistry. This was his fi rst time attending a national professional meeting.

Tessa Woodruff is a student liaison for the ACS and a se-nior majoring in chemistry.

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and network, but there were at least 50 schools and over 250 students present.

Spenser: I stopped over at the graduate school festival to get some free food and to see what kind of research labs were of-fered at the various schools. I talked to recruiters from U. Penn, Vanderbilt, and several other institutions. Next, I attend-ed some lectures not directly related to what I do in my lab, but the talks were still very interesting and I felt some pride that I could follow along with most of the research I was hearing about.

Tessa: I was on a panel on how to make the most of your ! rst ACS meeting. % is was a ton of fun, with the audience ask-ing us many questions about what we thought of the meetings, what was good to do, and how we got to the positions we were in with ACS.

Josh: In the evening, it was my turn to present my research at a poster session titled “Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry.” For-tunately, I wasn’t nervous at all; I had done this before and had a ! rm under-standing of my work. In total I got to talk with around 10 di$ erent people about my work. Some o$ ered suggestions for how to make improvements, while others were genuinely curious about what I had been up to.

Tessa: % e last event of the day was the award ceremony for successful student chapters. Everyone showed up and it went great. MCS even got the “com-mendable” award, the ACS equivalent to

a silver medal!

MONDAY, APRIL 8Josh: Today was the big day for most of the students on our trip since the main event was the undergraduate poster ses-sion. Fortunately for me, my presentation was out of the way and I was free to ex-plore the rest of the conference.

Spenser: Today was easily the best day of the entire trip. I started my morning o$ by attending a series of lectures about the regulation of gene expression. Epi-genetics is a huge hot topic in science right now, and one that is related to my work. One talk in particular presented the research to ! nd target gene therapies to treat patients with Huntington’s dis-ease and Down’s syndrome. I was blown away by what I heard in those lectures and it inspired me to do some reading on the subject later on when I got back to school. We also got to hear Dr. Tier-ney, a Miami professor, present some of his research.

Josh: Even though I wasn’t presenting, I went to check out the undergraduate poster session and support the rest of our group. I’m proud to say that Miami was one of the best represented schools at the conference.

Tessa: % e undergraduate poster ses-sion is the event all the undergraduates were waiting for. Seventy-nine percent of undergraduates to attend the last meet-ing did so to present their posters. % is went well, with the usual problems for

ACS; undergraduates like to leave early and usually only stay at the session half the time. My poster went great! I had a few people come talk to me about my re-search and I had great conversations with everyone that stopped by.

Spenser: I presented my work on the partner proteins of syn3, a cohesin pro-tein in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, at the main undergraduate poster session. More than ! ve people took the time to talk with me in depth about my work. Everyone seemed to be able to follow the work I had done and almost all of my feedback was purely positive. I also had some time to wander the other posters and even found a student working with the same system I used, but on a di$ erent protein!

Tessa: A& er the poster session, the next event was our eminent scientist lecture. % is is the biggest event for the student liaisons. % e room was packed and the event went great, although we had a slight slip. Our plaque for the speaker was le& at the other student liaison’s hotel. So a& er he introduced the speaker he had to run back to his hotel to get the plaque, but he made it back with a few minutes to spare!

Josh: A& er the poster session, a friend and I explored the exposition where there are hundreds of di$ erent vendors we could talk to and learn about their products. Later, I got to hear my research advisor give a talk. Hearing him discuss our research in a professional setting was a slightly di$ erent perspective than what I’m used to.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9Josh: Sam Greer, one of the students in our group going to graduate school next year, gave a talk over his research and all the rest of us attended to show our sup-port.

Spenser: % e crowd was blown away by Sam’s presentation. He did better than some of the professors who had gone be-fore him, in my opinion.

Tessa: A& er Sam’s presentation, I said my good-byes to all the ACS sta$ that I met and got ready to head home. Although it was stressful and tiring, all the great con-tacts I have made with ACS were worth it and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Josh: Of the conferences I have attended this is probably my second favorite (be-hind last year’s ACS meeting in San Di-ego). We had a great group of students, got to see a culturally rich city, learn from and interact with some of the leading chemists of our time, and present our work to a professional audience.

Spenser: I felt very grati! ed that I was not only able to understand the stu$ I saw at the conference, but that I was treated like an equal and a peer with these great men and women who are working tirelessly to increase scienti! c progress. % is trip was one of the most fun and rewarding mo-ments of my undergraduate career and I would recommend any undergraduate who is involved in research at Miami to attend a national meeting like this before they graduate.

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In preparation for the grand opening of the new Armstrong Student Cen-ter, Miami University asked students

to submit essays connecting “Old Miami” heritage to their experiences as current undergraduates. Being a Miami alumna and current Miami employee, and having a daughter here as a legacy, I couldn’t help but think about all Miami has meant — and continues to mean — to me.

As a student, Miami a$ orded me the op-portunity to learn what I wanted to do with my life. I began my ! rst year as a declared pre-med major. I immediate-ly delved into my basic science courses, leaving my courses in arts, humanities, and the social sciences for my later years. Little did I know that the comprehensive liberal arts education o$ ered by Miami would steer me in an entirely new direc-tion from what I had planned. Miami of-fered a wealth of campus and community opportunities that allowed me to discover my true talents and ambitions.

During my course of studies, several of my instructors mentioned opportunities to gain hands-on research experience work-ing in their labs. I was fortunate to work for Dr. Phillip J. Best, then-chair and pro-fessor in Psychology, who at the time was studying how the brain processes infor-mation about the environment and how damage to the brain a$ ects that process-ing. Because of that experience, I went on to earn my Master’s of Arts degree in Physiological Psychology.

Today’s Miami students continue to have ample opportunities to gain hands-on experiences in the classroom, laboratory, and ! eld through mechanisms such as independent studies, ! eld studies, exter-nal grants, the Undergraduate Summer Scholars (USS) program, and the First Year Research Experience (FYRE)Pro-gram. It was this type of experience that opened avenues to me that I didn’t even know existed and might not ever have dis-covered in a traditional classroom setting.

As a current employee in the O" ce for the Advancement of Research and Schol-arship, I continue to witness the myriad ways faculty engage students both with-in and outside the classroom setting. A testament to this is the increased num-ber of student presentations at this year’s Undergraduate Research Forum (URF). Undergraduates from a wide variety of disciplines showcased their research and scholarly activities, including:• “Getting Motivated: Intrinsic vs. Ex-

trinsic Motivators,” an oral presen-tation by ! nance major Timothy P. Osborne (advised by Megan M. Ger-hardt, Department of Management)

• “Characterization of Hippocampal Oscillatory Responses During % e-ta-Contingent Delay Eyeblink Classi-cal Conditioning” a poster presenta-tion by psychology major Martin A. Spies (advised by Stephen D. Berry and Loren C. Ho! mann, both in the Department of Psychology)

And it’s not just during the academic year that our classrooms and laboratories are a hubbub of activity. Students in the sum-mer are engaged in study abroad oppor-tunities, internships, work-study on cam-pus, the internally-funded USS program, and Research Experiences for Undergrad-uates, a program funded by the National Science Foundation.

While I will always remember fondly the time-honored traditions of “avoiding the seal” and “kissing under the arch,” it was, and continues to be, the interactions with the faculty, sta$ , and students of Miami that hold the most a$ ection for me. So for each student (or alumnus) who chooses to sit and re# ect on his or her Miami expe-rience, there is a new story to be written: a story that might include a study abroad or research experience, a life-long friend-ship forged on campus, or a life-changing event that shaped an individual’s values and beliefs.

As I look out my window from Roudebush Hall, and see students stroll, jog, and bi-cycle around the university seal, I think about how we all came to Miami for a great education, but how we leave (and perhaps, as I did, return) with so much more.

MU alum refl ects on the “seal”ing of her fateby Tricia CallahanDirector of Proposal Development

The Miami seal in the Hub

Student work celebrated at 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum

Miami University undergradu-ate students presented results of independent research proj-ects and other creative activity at the 19th Annual Undergrad-uate Research Forum (URF), held on April 10 at Shriver Center.

Nearly 500 student authors working on more than 300 projects participated in oral and poster sessions.

Martha Weber, Undergraduate Research Coordinator and or-ganizer of the event says it is “exemplary of Miami’s person-alized learning environment.”

Geology and environmental Earth science major Noor-ulann Ghouse presents her research in a poster ses-sion at the 19th Annual Undergradute Research Forum

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Current and former Miami students recognized by NSFby Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

Kristyn Shreve, a graduate stu-dent in environmental science at Miami University has been

o$ ered a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Award by the National Sci-ence Foundation (NSF).

Since 1952, NSF has provided fellow-ships to individuals selected early in their careers based on their demonstrat-ed potential for signi! cant achievements in science and engineering. Recipients receive three years of ! nancial support within a ! ve-year fellowship period.

Shreve, who studies feral cat behavior with the goal of developing strategies for managing their populations humane-ly, received honorable mention from the NSF last year and was encouraged to re-apply this year. “I am extremely grateful to NSF for providing me the op-portunity to explore the topics I am tru-ly passionate about and giving me the chance to better understand the animals with which we share our lives,” she says.

In addition to Shreve, Jillian Epstein, currently a Miami senior majoring in chemical engineering, will receive a Graduate Research Fellowship in sup-port of her planned graduate study at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

% e following Miami alumni pursuing graduate degrees at other institutions

also received Graduate Research Fel-lowships: Jessica Gephart (University of Virginia), Katherine Digianantonio (Princeton University), Aaron Coey (Stanford University), and Andy Zhou (California Institute of Technology).

Among Miami students receiving hon-orable mention from the NSF are senior chemical engineering major John Mi-chael; graduate students Tyler Hoskins (ecology, evolution, and environmetal biology), Kelli Galloway (chemsitry), Courtney Clark (zoology), and Aimee Belanger (psychology); and alumni Megan Sabal (now at the University of California-Santa Cruz), Mark Noviski (now at the University of California-San Francisco), and Rebecca Kelley (now at Coumbia University).

New Offi ce of Research for Undergraudates announced

At the Undergraduate Research Forum on April 10, Provost Bobby Gempesaw announced

the formation of a new O" ce of Re-search for Undergraduates.

“At Miami, we’ve always encouraged undergraduates to develop a spirit of inquiry and discovery,” says James T. Oris, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, “but we’ve never had an o" ce devoted solely to coordinating and progressing under-graduate research.”

Recently recommended by the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Research, this new o" ce will coordi-

by Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

NSF fellowship recipient Kristyn Shreve

nate research activity by undergradu-ates across the university and market programs to current and prospective students.

% e new o" ce will not replace or su-pervise any existing research programs. “% ose programs are the foundation of Miami’s well-deserved reputation for undergraduate research participation,” says Provost Gempesaw, “and our facul-ty will continue to lead those high im-pact learning experiences.”

% e O" ce of Research for Undergrad-uates will be led by a faculty director, who will report to the Associate Provost for Research and the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies. % e o" ce is tentatively slated to be housed in the University’s King Library.

Reception honors efforts of university researchers

The % ird Annual Proposals and Awards Reception was hosted by OARS the a& ernoon of February

7. Faculty and sta$ who submitted pro-posals and/or received awards from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 were invited to attend.

by Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

“It’s just a nice way to recognize the ef-forts of our researchers,” says Director of Proposal Development and event or-ganizer Tricia Callahan.

Researchers who received external funding in FY 2012 — some of whom were among the more than 30 faculty and sta$ to attend the reception — are listed on the following pages.

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Since 1978, the Council on Under-graduate Research (CUR) has sup-ported and promoted high-quality

undergraduate student-faculty collabora-tive research and scholarship.

% rough Miami University’s enhanced institutional membership, Miami stu-dents, faculty and sta$ can join CUR as individual members, without paying any fees. With an individual membership, Miami a" liates have access to exclusive, members-only content available on the CUR website, cur.org.

FOR FACULTY & ADMINISTRATORS

• A mentor network matches indi-viduals seeking information about starting, sustaining, or re-initiating undergraduate research programs to experienced, tenured CUR fac-ulty. Mentors can discuss the types of projects that are o& en successful with undergraduates, help guide appropriate funding selections, and review grant proposals.

• Members can subscribe to a num-ber of CUR listservs or join in discussion forums that focus on a range of topics, from undergraduate research generally to discipline-spe-ci! c issues to advocacy.

• A curated list of resources helps fac-ulty and administrators learn how

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The Ohio % ird Frontier’s Innova-tion Platform Program (IPP) is one of three complementary pro-

grams focused on commercialization in an e$ ort to spur Ohio’s academic re-search base to move developed-in-Ohio products to market faster and more e" -ciently. % e IPP supports innovation by linking existing or established technol-ogy platforms and associated resources at Ohio higher education institutions to the speci! c late-stage research, product development, and innovation needs of Ohio companies.

% e objectives of the IPP are:

• To support existing platforms at Ohio colleges, universities, and not-for-pro! t research institutions that will serve speci! cally de! ned near-term commercialization objectives of two or more Ohio for-pro! t companies;

• To support platforms that will devel-op and launch new products, innova-tions, or services into the commercial market within three to ! ve years of the project start date;

• To kick-start the long-term, sus-tained use of developed platforms by multiple industry partners;

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About Ohio Third Frontier and our series on its higher ed programsCreated in 2002 as an initia-tive of the Ohio Development Services Agency, Ohio Third Frontier brings together lead-ers from industry, academia and government. According to the Third Frontier website, it in-tends to “create an innovation ecosystem that supports the effi cient and seamless tran-sition of great ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace.”

In this series of articles, Mi-ami’s Director of Technology Transfer and Business Part-nerships, Reid Smith, exam-ines the four Third Frontier pro-grams of greatest relevance to higher education.

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ties within Ohio through the Ohio companies that use and bene! t from them.

Focusing on operating and capital equipment needs, the program provides funding support via grants to further enhance the unique technological ca-pabilities and strengths that rely on these types of institutional resources. Because the intent of the IPP is to sup-port existing capabilities, rather than to create new infrastructure, successful grant applicants will demonstrate that the capabilities of the established talent, equipment and facilities, prior research and development, and innovation track record are organized around a cohesive institutional program that falls within at least one of the % ird Frontier tech-

nology focus areas. Furthermore, suc-cessful applicants will also demonstrate that developing client-service relation-ships with at least two unrelated Ohio for-pro! t companies within three to ! ve years of the project start date is plausi-ble.

% e number of projects supported by the Innovation Platform Program is contingent upon available funding ($24 million in FY2013) and awards are made through a single RFP posted each year. If you are working on a technolo-gy platform you think might be eligible for support through IPP, please contact Reid Smith, Miami’s Director of Tech-nology Transfer and Business Partner-ships, at [email protected] or 529-3753.

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Our o" ce will be transferring re-cords for current protocols and training records to a new data-

base that will allow enhanced functional-ity and e" ciencies. % e transfer will take place this summer. Automatic reminders regarding impending expirations and re-porting obligations will be the most ob-vious change for researchers.

ANIMAL CARE PROGRAM % e annual reporting system will be changing. Previously, all researchers submitted reports about any regulated activities in the preceding calendar year to the IACUC in February. % is schedule has led to problems maintaining compli-ance. Beginning in June 2013, reports for each protocol will be requested on the anniversary of approval. For the ! rst year it will be awkward, as we will be request-ing a report that covers activities since January 2013.

In response to new regulatory require-ments and emphases following Hurri-canes Katrina and Sandy, Miami is re-quired to develop and document disaster preparedness plans speci! cally for the animal care program. % ese plans will need to address on-campus facilities, as well as ! eld sites/studies.

In addition to an overall plan for pre-paredness, we have to consider problems that might be speci! c to any particular situation. Beginning in the fall, USDA

inspections will include review of di-saster planning documents, so over the summer we will be contacting research-ers about the disaster planning needs of individual protocols/studies and animals.

RESPONSIBLECONDUCT OF RESEARCHPlease remember that all Miami person-nel whose research is supported by NIH or NSF funding are required to partici-pate in a series of forums designed to ad-dress research issues regarding:

• Con# ict of interest and commitment• Data acquisition, management, shar-ing, ownership and collaboration

• Mentor/trainee responsibilities, • Human subjects and animal welfare, • Publication practices, responsible authorship and peer review

• Research misconduct

% e next series of sessions o$ ered by the compliance o" ce will be held this com-ing fall. Notices and reminders will be sent to all principal investigators receiv-ing NSF/NIH funding. Any Miami per-sonnel may attend or be required by a faculty member to attend these sessions, regardless of the source of funding.

As always, please contact us with any compliance questions or suggestions.

Summer to bring changes for complianceby Neal SullivanDirector of Research Compliance

Research compliance resources available

Developing/submitting IRB or IACUC applications:

Jennifer Sutton 513-529-0454 [email protected]

Reporting concerns:Ethics PointMiamiOH.edu/ethicspoint- or -Research misconductNeal Sullivan 513-529-2488 [email protected]

Animal carePaul James 513-529-3129 [email protected]

Human subjects Neal Sullivan 513-529-2488 [email protected]

BiosafetyGary Janssen 513-529-1694 [email protected]

Radiation 513-529-1723

Questions/suggestions:Jennifer Sutton 513-529-0454 [email protected]

Neal Sullivan 513-529-2488 [email protected]

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Some faculty/researchers at Miami may be familiar with the existing OARS funding alert system, while

others may not. Under this system, newly announced funding opportuni-ties are sent weekly to subscribers of more than 40 discipline-/topic-speci! c OARS Funding listservs.

While the current system works for many researchers, others ! nd it inef-! cient and less than user friendly. In response, we are making changes to the OARS funding alert system.

WHAT YOUNEED TO KNOW• We will continue to use listservs to send weekly funding opportunity updates. However, the listservs will be recon" gured to better match the research interests of Miami faculty. New listservs will be added and some existing listservs will be recon! gured or retired.

• Researchers who don’t want listserv e-mails, but still want to have access to funding opportunity information through other chan-nels, have the option of joining one or more OARS funding groups on Diigo. A bookmarking service, Diigo is the tool used to aggregate funding opportunities for distribu-tion through the OARS Funding listservs. Opening up direct mem-

bership to the Diigo groups that underlie the current alert system allows researchers to have more control over whether and how they receive automatic alerts.

• Joining an OARS Funding Diigo group allows you to:

▷ Control whether and how o& en to receive e-mail updates

▷ Add the group’s RSS feed to your current news aggregator (e.g., Flipboard, Feedly, Pulse)

▷ Share funding opportunities and related information with the group

▷ Recommend colleagues for mem-bership in the group

• You can view funding opportunities added to an OARS Funding Diigo group at any time, even without becoming a member, by visiting the group’s public webpage.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO• If you currently subscribe to any OARS Funding listservs, keep an eye on your inbox for news about the listservs’ status.

▷ If a listserv you subscribe to is being retired, you might want to see if there’s another listserv that meets your needs.

▷ If a listserv you subscribe to is being recon! gured, you will be assigned to a listserv that appears to be appropriate for you. If you discover that the listserv is not

appropriate for you, you may un-subscribe from it (see directions at right). You may also subscribe to a di$ erent listserv(s).

• If you currently subscribe to any OARS Funding listservs, and would like to begin using the correspond-ing Diigo group(s) directly instead, unsubscribe from the listserv(s) and join the Diigo group (see direc-tions at right).

• If you currently subscribe to any OARS Funding listservs and you no longer wish to receive any funding alerts, you may unsubscribe from the listserv(s) (see directions at right). You may then visit any Diigo group page directly at any time to review the posted funding opportu-nities. (You may want to bookmark group webpages for easy, one-click access to the latest funding opportu-nity announcements.)

• If you don’t currently subscribe to any OARS Funding listservs, you are welcome to join any Diigo group and/or listserv that meets your needs (see directions at right).

Changes coming to electronic funding opp alert systemby Heather Beattey JohnstonOARS Assistant Director & Information Coordinator

See available OARS Funding Diigo

groups and listservs at http://www.units.muohio.edu/oars/

funding_opps/Alerts_Diigo_Groups/.

Subscribe/unsubscribe listservs:1. Visit http://www.units.muohio.edu/

oars/funding_opps/Alerts_Diigo_Groups/.

2. Click the listserv link to the right of the name of the desired topic/discipline. This will take you to the listserv’s webpage.

3. Click the Join or leave the list (or change settings) link.

4. Enter your e-mail address and name in the designated fi elds.

5. Click the Join LISTSERV-NAME button or the Leave LIST-SERV-NAME button.

Join Diigo groups:1. Navigate to http://www.diigo.com.2. Create a Diigo account by click-

ing on the Join Diigo link in the upper right corner and following the instructions. Alternatively, you can use an existing Diigo, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!, or OpenID account by clicking the Sign In link.

3. While you are signed into Diigo, visit http://www.units.muohio.edu/oars/funding_opps/Alerts_Diigo_Groups/.

4. Click on the Diigo group link to the right of the name of the desired topic/discipline. This will take you to the Diigo group’s webpage.

5. Click the blue Apply to join this group button in the right column.

6. On the “Apply to join” page, type your name and your Miami unique ID in the “Leave a request message to the group owner” text box. Click the Finish button. You will receive a confi rmation e-mail once your membership has been approved.