The University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research
Norman Campus Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report
INSPIRING DISCOVERY
Developed by The Research Statistics and Analysis Group Norman Campus
OU Research Cabinet The University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research
Norman Campus Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report
RSA Document 08‐AR
This Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report is published by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), Norman Campus and produced by the Research Statistics and Analysis Group (RSA) within the OVPR. Questions about this report can be forwarded to Ernest Abrogar (405‐325‐3932) or Kelvin Droegemeier (405‐325‐3806).
OVPR: http://research.ou.edu/ RSA: http://research.ou.edu/rsa Research Cabinet: http://researchcabinet.ou.edu/
Cover photo: The BION art project was designed by Adam Brown, associate professor of art, and Andrew Fagg, associate pro‐ fessor of computer science, who teach in the Symbiotic Media Program offered at OU. Each tooth‐like object has biological sensors that communicate with the other objects when a visitor approaches the array. Blue diode lights indicate sensor activ‐ ity. See http://symbioticmedia.ou.edu/bion.html for details.
Contributors: Ernest Abrogar, Information Analyst I and Director, RSA Alyson Bell, Graduate Research Assistant, RSA Stephanie Callaway, Director of Public Relations, OU Office of Technology Development Andrea Deaton, Executive Director, Norman Campus Office of Research Services Kelvin Droegemeier, Associate Vice President for Research, Norman Campus OVPR Linda Holt, Director, Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services Cheryl Jorgenson, Director, Office of Institutional Research and Reporting Deborah Marsh, Assistant to the Vice President for Research, Norman Campus OVPR Joshua Maxey, Staff Assistant II, Stephenson Research Center T.H. Lee Williams, Vice President for Research, Norman Campus OVPR
This publication, printed by University Printing Services, is issued by the University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. The University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research
Norman Campus Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report
INSPIRING DISCOVERY
Developed by The Research Statistics and Analysis Group Norman Campus
OU Research Cabinet
MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
A research university is a special place, a community of ideas, a Community of Scholars, whose primary product is the educated student. The community,
faculty and students, expand the frontiers of knowledge and prepare the next generation of leaders and innovators.
The OU Norman Campus strikes a distinctive balance between the traditional and modern. The timeless emphasis on the pursuit of knowledge is counter‐ balanced by a very modern practical context that prepares students for the 21st century. Recognizing that knowledge is most powerful when shared and applied, the University has built a Research Campus that co‐locates OU re‐ search centers with government and private industry.
Pragmatically, the core strategy of the University is to enable the scholarship of each one of the fourteen hundred faculty, through the provision of appro‐ priate physical facilities and infrastructure, internal funding programs for re‐ search, and a robust mechanism to help faculty seek, win, and conduct exter‐ nally funded grants and contracts.
Research expenditures have risen to new highs the past few years. In Fiscal Year 2008, Norman Campus programs faculty and staff (including those at OU‐ Tulsa) expended $72.3 million for research activities, up from $45.3 million in FY 1999, an increase of nearly sixty percent.
This annual report is the product of a new unit with the Office of the Vice President for Research: the Research Statistics and Analysis Group. The RSA group collects, analyzes, and disseminates quantitative information about Uni‐ versity research in order to promote success in scholarship for the Norman Campus and its associated programs at OU‐Tulsa.
The purpose of this report is to provide a well‐rounded quantitative assess‐ ment of the University’s performance in research, but do enjoy the notes and stories about our eclectic and enterprising faculty, researchers, and students. What I find most invigorating about life in the academe is their zeal for making and inspiring discovery. A Community of Scholars indeed!
T.H. Lee Williams Dean, Graduate College and Vice President for Research
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Impact of OU Research 6
Executive Summary 7
Norman Campus Research Funding 8
Ten‐Year Trend ● Ten‐Year Breakdown BOZORGI
Scholarship and Creative Activity at OU 10 KHOSROW
Summary Statistics for FY 2008 14 Research Trends at a Glance ● Office of Technology Development ● Metrics Graduate Students
CENTER
Funding Sources 17 STEPHENSON
Top External Sponsors for FY 2008 ● By Sector Source for
FY 2008 ● By Federal Source for FY 2008 ● SOC. Funding Source Trends ● Sources by College
ANTHROPOLOGICAL
Academic Output and Impact 24 OK. Article Counts ● Top Web of Science Subject Areas and CHAP.
SW
Academic Impact GR.
Expenditures 26 Total Expenditures for FY 2008 ● Federally Funded Expenditures for FY 2008 ● State and Locally Funded
Expenditures for FY 2008 ● Industry‐Funded Expenditures CENTER
for FY 2008 ● Top 200 Externally Funded PIs
STEPHENSON Strategic Research Initiatives 34
Terms and Abbreviations 35
CENTER
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FOUNDATION
OU
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THE IMPACT OF OU RESEARCH
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden (1854)
Things you see, touch, hear and smell – and even those you don’t. The tech‐ niques, processes, or reasoning you apply each day. How you feel, what you enjoy, or how you communicate. Whatever the application or environment, chances are an OU faculty member, staff researcher or student is developing a better understanding of something to improve your community, your country, or your life.
OU researchers are in the business of developing new knowledge to solve chal‐ lenging problems, creating works of expression to stimulate and delight audi‐ ences, and working across generations and cultures to share ideas, debate is‐ sues and realize the boundless potential that resides within each of us. Whether developing ear implants, helping high school students understand environmental issues using digital games, or expanding capabilities in wind power, OU researchers are making a difference for Oklahoma, for our nation and for our world.
This impact is manifested in a variety of ways and contexts. The Department of Defense depends upon OU researchers to develop, administer and improve tests that measure the effects of head injuries on soldiers. OU and Federal scientists have pioneered new weather observation and prediction technolo‐ gies that could greatly improve the time available to seek shelter during severe storms. Both State and Federal grants are supporting OU research in biofuels in collaboration with Oklahoma State University and the Noble Foundation. OU faculty and staff continue their long history of recognizing excellence in inter‐ national literature.
Technology born out of OU scholarship is driving the creation of new compa‐ nies that expand and diversify Oklahoma’s economy, improving the safety and health of its citizens, creating new high‐technology jobs, and helping retain its best and brightest people. OU researchers are leading these efforts. Their purpose is practical and their worldview is wide. They are Oklahoma’s most engaged philosophers.
6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is pleased to provide this report on scholarly re‐ search and creative activity on the Norman Campus and associated programs at the OU‐Tulsa Campus, and to highlight the achievements of selected faculty and students. The value of scholarship cannot be conveyed using a few statis‐ tics. Hence, we seek with this report to provide a broad, succinct view of Norman Campus research and the manner in which it impacts our State, nation and world.
Key points in the report include the following:
• In State Fiscal Year 2008, OU researchers expended a record $72.3 million in non‐University funding to support re‐ search and creative activities. (This figure excludes the training and outreach programs associated with the College of Continuing Education, which expended $80.6 million in FY 2008.)
• Of the $72.3 million, about $54 million came from Federal sources. Some $5.46 million came from State and local sources, and $6.7 million from private industry. Research expenditures have risen consistently during the past five fiscal years.
• A record number of external grant proposals were submitted from the Norman Campus during State fiscal year 2008, representing an increase of nearly one hundred from the previous year. The associated amount of funding re‐ quested ‐‐ $367.5 million ‐‐ also was the highest in OU history. During State fiscal years 2005 through 2007, ap‐ proximately four in ten OU proposals were funded.
• The number of articles published by a researcher in peer‐reviewed journals is a standard measure of research activ‐ ity.1 As of mid‐December, 2008, Norman Campus2 researchers published 1,098 journal articles3, which is a record for the past five years.
1A variety of means exist for conveying the outcomes of scholarship and creative works, and some are favored by certain fields over journal articles (such as books or conference papers). These other media of scholarship are included in the count, albeit not as extensively as journal articles. 2Our article search was conducted for Norman Campus articles only, but it did yield articles written by Health Science Center researchers, owing to the use of Norman Campus Zip codes in their address. This may be true for some Tulsa Campus articles as well. 3As indexed by Web of Science databases from a search performed on Dec. 19, 2008.
7 NORMAN CAMPUS RESEARCH FUNDING Ten-Year Trend
Chart 1 Total Research Expenditures for OU Fiscal Years 1999 - 2008 Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
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60,000,000
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Expenditures ($) Expenditures 30,000,000
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0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Total Expenditures 45,277,907 51,166,361 49,795,876 58,932,494 55,412,810 60,416,382 60,507,115 64,655,321 69,411,632 72,336,690
Fiscal Year Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services ff f
8 NORMAN CAMPUS RESEARCH FUNDING Ten-Year Breakdown
Chart 2 Research Expenditures by Source for OU Fiscal Years 1999 - 2008 Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
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0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total 45,277,907 51,166,361 49,795,876 58,932,494 55,412,810 60,416,382 60,507,115 64,655,321 69,411,632 72,336,690 Universities 918,881 1,534,202 2,151,231 2,440,161 2,493,363 4,947,583 161,782 71,288 131,050 108,428 State and Local Gov't 10,114,350 8,984,213 7,517,553 7,939,318 7,887,734 8,358,869 4,590,196 4,479,596 5,079,005 5,461,245 Other States 88,665 93,943 69,751 55,970 22,393 9,971 12,880 3,289 13,089 0 Multiple Sources 2,295,671 1,889,640 1,911,126 2,030,700 2,152,439 2,224,297 1,487,429 1,933,897 1,804,936 1,396,855 Inter national 370,523 677,531 586,553 330,900 295,338 951,738 241,360 479,661 390,507 455,620 Industry/Commercial 3,056,730 2,677,263 3,887,843 6,673,826 5,421,834 4,495,005 2,158,879 3,568,823 4,676,774 6,713,646 Foundations/Nonprofit 2,026,541 2,619,650 3,477,107 6,147,430 6,887,548 5,322,975 3,792,721 3,123,866 3,590,533 4,174,257 Federal Flow Through* 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,251,219 13,561,861 14,742,119 15,288,440 Federal Direct 26,406,546 32,689,919 30,194,712 33,314,189 30,252,161 34,105,944 35,810,649 37,433,040 38,983,619 38,738,199
Fiscal Year
*Federal Flow Through is Federal funding allocated through programs administered by these sources: city/county governments, foundations, commercial interests , international sources, nonprofit organizations, the State of Oklahoma, other states, other universities, and multiple sources. Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services 9
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Scholarship and Creative Activity at OU
Pioneering the Production and Use of Carbon Nanotubes ERNEST In 1991 a journal article detailing the discovery of carbon nanotubes was first pub‐
ABROGAR lished . Knowing that one of his faculty members pioneered a catalytic process, Daniel
Resasco’s department head persuaded him to start working with these nanotubes, which are elongated carbon molecules the width of about one to two nanometers. Resasco’s process could make a reality the large‐scale production of these nanotubes.
Single‐wall carbon nanotubes have a structure that allows them to exhibit uniquely valuable optical and electronic properties. They are strong, flexible and show stability in high temperatures and different chemical environments. Resasco’s breakthrough was creating a process, called CoMoCat®, that not only could produce strong and high ‐quality single‐walled nanotubes, but at varying amounts and types. This customization makes SouthWest NanoTechnologies, the business Resasco founded to market nano‐ tubes, attractive to industrial customers that have different nanotechnology needs. SWeNT’s large‐scale capability lowers the cost of producing them.
Resasco, a chemical engineering professor, says that the practical applications of these Top: Professor Resasco (right) at the nanotubes are many. They can be used in films, lasers, biomedical technology, fuel and plant floor of SouthWest NanoTech‐ nologies, with Research and Process solar cells, semiconductors, sensors, touch screens, and flat panel displays. He says his Development Manager Ricardo Silvy. potential client list is composed of several Fortune 500 companies. Single‐wall nanotubes are produced in the reactors above. Despite his corporate connections, Resasco indicates he is a professor first. He enjoys taking SWeNT’s problems to his students, giving them relevant experience. “If it Left: A micrometer‐level shot of carbon nanotubes. becomes routine, I will leave SWeNT.”
Analyzing How the Public Weighs Risks
Public policy is constantly shaped by choices between the ideal roles of govern‐ ment, perceived natural or man‐made threats, uses of technology, unmet so‐
cietal needs and encroachments on civil liberties. Studying how the public bal‐ ABROGAR ances risks, and how experts and leaders explain them to the public, are Hank
Jenkins‐Smith and Carol Silva. ERNEST
Jenkins‐Smith, a professor, and Silva, an associate professor, both teach politi‐ cal science and work as researchers at the Center for Applied Social Research (CASR). Jenkins‐Smith has long been interested in collective choices on hard issues. Silva was intrigued as an undergraduate with the politics surrounding the location of a federal lab’s nuclear waste repository in New Mexico.
The duo explore topics such as climate change and energy sources, national security and election systems. Soon, they’ll investigate the ever‐increasing engagement of scientists with public policy. The latter is particularly fascinating because the passion of collective decision‐making conflicts with the straightfor‐ ward and dispassionate nature of science – and scientists are ones who have to study and explain these choices.
Threats are like a balloon, Jenkins‐Smith says. “You can squeeze down the risk in one area, but it balloons out someplace else.” Hank Jenkins‐Smith and Carol Silva at the CASR office at Two Partners Place on the OU Research Campus
10 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Scholarship and Creative Activity at OU
Keeping Native Languages from Extinction
As a linguist, Marcia Haag inevitably saw opportunity in working with Native American tribes and their traditional languages when she moved to Oklahoma ERNEST along with her husband, a newly hired physics professor at OU. With native
ABROGAR speakers growing older and a new generation speaking only English and inter‐
marrying, Native American languages are in danger of disappearing. Should that happen, it will be that much harder to sustain one of the cultures that help define the state of Oklahoma. Haag began with the Choctaws.
Haag, an associate professor, at first found the Choctaws uninterested. Their attitudes turned, however, when the Native American Languages Act of 1991 provided much‐needed funds to teach and preserve native languages.
Haag’s practice includes teaching linguistics, developing courses for these native languages in different media (such as the Internet and CDs), and study‐ ing them. This partly involves working with native speakers to find out how they work. One of her recent scholarly projects was a comparison of word formations between the Muscogean and Iroquoian languages.
Haag stresses that linguists are necessary to saving these languages because they bring out the association between sounds and meanings. Along with Associate Professor Marcia Haag in her office at Kaufman Hall linguistic support, she believes a serious commitment from the tribes, funding for educational efforts and location of native speakers are critical in this ef‐ fort.
Helping Lay the Groundwork for Oklahoma’s Wind Industry
Wind power has become a viable alternative energy source. In fact, with its abundant
wind, Oklahoma is poised to become a capital for wind energy. Helping to make that happen is the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative (OWPI), a collaborative effort among ABROGAR researchers at OU and Oklahoma State University to investigate and promote wind energy resources. ERNEST
The principal investigator of OWPI is OU’s Scott Greene, a professor of geography. Greene’s study of wind data as a postdoc at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey evolved into looking at wind as a source of electrical power.
Today, OWPI’s underlying mission is building the wind industry. We are at the ground level, Greene says of its development. The Initiative’s research fleshes this out by fol‐ lowing three research tracks: 1) continuing to improve our understanding of wind vari‐ ability and wind resources; 2) examining the long‐term viability of wind as an energy source and industry; and 3) looking at the environmental and societal impacts of wind production. It also conducts outreach activities, from helping teachers incorporate envi‐ Professor Scott Greene in his office at Sarkeys Energy Center on the ronmental stewardship into their curriculum, to working with rural areas that are candi‐ main campus dates for wind farms, to job training.
According to Professor Greene, Oklahoma is well‐positioned to take a lead in wind en‐ ergy because the infrastructure is already here. Local expertise in weather and energy is abundant, and the state has been proactive in developing this economic subsector. Future projections from the Department of Energy suggest that Oklahoma could be‐ come second only to Texas in wind energy production.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Scholarship and Creative Activity at OU
Studying How Protein Structures Affect Their Function
Professor Ann West didn’t plan on teaching chemistry when she earned her
ERNEST doctorate in genetics. But fully believing that her degree was a degree in inde‐
ABROGAR pendent thinking, she followed her interest in proteins, the complex mole‐ cules composed of long chains of amino acids, just after molecular biology broke out as a field in the mid‐1980s. The advent of recombinant DNA tech‐ nology allowed biochemists to overproduce their favorite protein in bacteria and purify the protein in large quantities for subsequent studies.
West is part of the Integrative Life Sciences Initiative at OU, which promotes the interface of biology and chemistry at the molecular level. The goal of ILSI is to advance understanding of the complex networks of molecules and genes that compose living organisms, and as a result, help make medical discoveries.
Specifically, West examines the structure of proteins. This is because proteins affect how a cell functions and adapts to its environment, such as receiving a signal to grow or stop growing. Proteins are needed to perceive and respond to these signals. Her research can contribute to stopping the growth of can‐ cers and to design anti‐microbial or anti‐fungal drugs that inhibit the function of proteins.
Professor Ann West in her laboratory at the Physical Sciences Center, with under‐ To West, protein structure is critical to knowing how a cell acts. “If you graduate researcher Chris Pack wanted to know how a wheel functions, it would help to know that the wheel was round.”
Digging Into the Unconscious Through the Music of Sounds
Like a sculptor seeing his object in a block of material, Assistant Professor Konstanti‐ nos Karathanasis sees the musical qualities coming from a series of assorted sounds.
But the unconventional voices he uses in his compositions still produce pieces that, ABROGAR like more mainstream music, are designed to evoke emotions and reactions from its
listeners. ERNEST
Karathanasis, who teaches music technology and composition, takes his inspiration from a multitude of sources, notably the theoretical work of psychologist Carl Jung. Just as dreams bring out the unconscious with symbols, his music uses sounds, like symbols, to bring out memories. He delights in the way a sound will bring out differ‐ ent reactions in people, who associate those sounds with different contexts.
As an undergraduate in Greece, Karathanasis discovered how computers could ex‐ pand the possibilities of his passion, music. Today, he is an emerging composer and music technology specialist. At OU, he reformed the Music Technology curriculum, the most comprehensive in the state of Oklahoma, and believes OU can develop an international profile in this specialty. Through the organization of an annual mini electroacoustic music festival at OU every spring, “inner sOUndscapes”, he wants to Assistant Professor Konstantinos Karathanasis in his music studio at develop local interest in this music genre, which compares to abstract art and movie Catlett Music Center special effects.
“The general public is not aware (of the genre), but they are aware of special effects – only, the sound is what matters, like a cinema for the ears.”
12 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Scholarship and Creative Activity at OU
Tracking the Effects of Injury on Human Cognition
ERNEST In the early 1980s, the U.S. Army began to fund the development of computer‐based
ABROGAR cognitive tests that detected the effects of injury and stress on a soldier’s cognitive performance. With the last incarnation, called Automated Neuropsychological As‐ sessment Metrics (ANAM), the Army decided it did not have the day‐to‐day expertise to properly handle ANAM’s improvement as a test battery. A few years ago, when the Army consulted experts on who to hand ANAM over to, they were repeatedly pointed to two OU professors: Kirby Gilliland and Robert Schlegel.
Gilliland, a psychology professor, and Schlegel, an industrial engineering professor, have worked together (and individually with the military) for two decades on human factors research. They formalized their partnership in 2002 with the establishment of the Center for the Study of Human Operator Performance (C‐SHOP). Today, C‐SHOP is a full‐fledged research and development laboratory that conducts both basic and applied research.
C‐SHOP continues to work with ANAM as an assessment tool. The computer‐based test is effective, Gilliland and Schlegel say, because it begins with simple cognition. Participants are instructed to react to a symbol on the screen, such as typing its cor‐ Professors Robert Schlegel and Kirby Gilliland in the C‐SHOP office at the OU Research Partners building responding key on the keyboard, or associating it with another symbol. The test measures one thing at a time. Gilliland and Schlegel prize this simplicity because it enables them to isolate problems in participants’ thought processes.
ANAM provides analytical value from its establishment of a baseline. Participants are tested before and after a stressful or physical event – such as deployment into war, or a game/season for athletes. The differences in how they respond to test problems illustrate how certain injuries impact their cognitive performance. ANAM has now been adopted by the Department of Defense for use in traumatic brain injury assess‐ ment. C‐SHOP is assisting the DoD in a major testing effort, which to date includes 125,000 armed services members.
Breaking Down the Rhetoric and Methods of Activist Organizations
As an undergraduate, Erich Sommerfeldt was fascinated with the ability of Christian Right organizations to mobilize people. A mentor, Maureen Taylor — who is now his Ph.D. adviser — honed this interest into an academic career in public relations and strategic communica‐ ABROGAR tions.
ERNEST Sommerfeldt, a doctoral fellow in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communica‐ tion, is still interested in activist organizations. After his work on the Christian Right, he then examined the methods that helped grow MoveOn.org. What was once a group petitioning Congress to move on from the Lewinsky scandal has evolved into a leading organization ad‐ vancing a multitude of liberal causes. Much of that growth he attributes to its application of technology. “They have taken the use of the Internet to a new level,” he notes. One of the lessons Sommerfeldt learned through his research is the way MoveOn converts Web site visi‐ tors into volunteers, who they flood with opportunities to get involved.
Sommerfeldt uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct research. “You really need both,” he confirms. Sommerfeldt often codifies content to statistically analyze the per‐ Doctoral Fellow and Ph.D. student Erich Sommerfeldt in his office sistence of messages, but the richness of the content is gleaned from qualitative study. at Copeland Hall
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SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR FY 2008 Research Trends at a Glance
Chart 3a Chart 3b Proposals Submitted during OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 Number of Journal Articles Published as Norman Campus* and Indexed by the Web of Science* Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa Nor m an Cam pus ** for Calendar Years 2004 - 2008
Proposals 900 400 Amount Proposed 367.5 1,200 1,098 1,033 1,011 975 845 350 1,000 850 Total Amount Proposed 891 261.3 238.2 300 800 800 249.1 770 237.7 250 Millions) ($ 769 600 750 737 200 400 710 150 700 Number of Articles 200 100
Number of Proposals 650 0 50 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*** 600 0 Calendar Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year * Databases include Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science * Including OU Outreach proposals Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index Source: Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research **OU articles with an address including a Norman campus Zip codes. This may include projects led by researchers from other institutions, OU Health Science Center or Tulsa Campus articles using Norman campus Zip codes (most HSC- or Tulsa-based articles do not), and actual Norman campus articles produced by any researcher, including post docs, graduate assistants, non-faculty researchers and fellows. *** As of Dec. 19, 2008
Table 1 Aggregate Proposal Success Rate for OU Fiscal Years 2005 ‐ 2007
Norman Campus* and Norman Campus Programs at OU‐Tulsa
Number of Proposals Number of Proposals Success Rate Submitted Funded
2,276 909 39.9%
*Including OU Outreach proposals Source: Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research
14 SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR FY 2008 Office of Technology Development Metrics
Table 2 Intellectual Property Business and Activity Norman Campus for OU Fiscal Year 2008 Royalty/License Income $ 210,836
Patent Reimbursement Dollars $ 158,347 Creating Economic Value From Disclosures (processed or received) 27 Knowledge and Research
Patent Applications The intellectual, economic, social and cul‐ Provisional Patent 6 tural vitality of Oklahoma and the nation is Utility 12 being enhanced as result of the technologies developed at the University of Oklahoma. Continuation‐in‐part 2 The university’s continued promotion of the Divisional 2 development of intellectual property enables Foreign 1 value to be transferred to the commercial Total 23 and economic community.
Patents Issued To enable researchers to capitalize on intel‐ U.S. 8 lectual property and assist them in commer‐ Foreign 9 cializing their projects, the university estab‐ lished the Office of Technology Development
in 1998. Under the management of the Uni‐ Spin‐Offs 13 versity Vice President for Technology Devel‐ Source: OU Office of Technology Development opment and Business Development, the Of‐ Royalty/License Income are earnings received by the University fice of Technology Development is responsi‐ from entities for use of University‐owned technology(ies). Patent Reimbursement Dollars are those funds paid by compa‐ ble for the University of Oklahoma’s technol‐ nies utilizing University‐based information or technology as reim‐ ogy‐related intellectual property and tech‐ bursement of expenditures incurred by the University for filing a nology‐related entrepreneurial and eco‐ patent. nomic development efforts. In collaboration Disclosures are the provision of descriptive information, includ‐ with the VPR, the Office of Technology De‐ ing models, drawings, publications and reports, of a technology velopment has created 36 companies that or invention resulting from research or work conducted at or on have generated more than $84 million in behalf of the University of Oklahoma. A Patent Application, generally, is the application filed with the capital, more than $10 million in cash and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for protection of a technology more than $30 million in current estimated or invention. Such applications vary in the types and require‐ equity value for the university. ments associated with each type, including their time of filing, level of protection and patent use. An Issued Patent is the grant of a property right to the inventor or assignee. It is “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling” the invention in the U.S. or “importing” the invention to the U.S. Spin‐offs (Start‐Ups) are companies whose primary technology is a University‐owned technology.
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SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR FY 2008 Graduate Students
Chart 4a Chart 4b
Graduate Enrollment on the Norman Campus Graduate Degrees Conferred* on the Norman Fall Semesters 2003 - 2007 Campus from 2002-2003 - 2006-2007
5,000 2,500 Doctoral PhD 4,000 Mas ter 's 2,000 MS
3,000 1,500
2,000 1,000
1,000 500 Graduate Degrees Graduate Students 0 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total 3,571 3,593 4,101 3,575 3,597 Total 1,694 1,736 1,778 1,670 1,616 Doctoral 1,249 1,323 1,865 1,399 1,420 PhD 144 130 160 159 173 Master's 2,322 2,270 2,236 2,176 2,177 MS 1,550 1,606 1,618 1,5111,443
Fall Semester Ending Spring Semester *Excluding Law * Excluding Law Source: OU Office of Institutional Research and Reporting Source: OU Office of Institutional Research and Reporting
Chart 4c
Graduate Students* with Graduate Assistantships on the Norman Campus Fall Semesters 2003 - 2007
45% Percent w ith Assistantships 40%
35%
Percent with Assistantships 30% 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Percent with 43.4% 39.4% 40.4% 39.3% 40.2% Assistantships Fall Semester
So urce: OU Office o f Institutio nal Research and Repo rting
16 FUNDING SOURCES Top External Sponsors for FY 2008
Table 3 Top 25 External Sponsors for FY 2008* Total Amount Awarding Agency Expended by OU National Science Foundation $ 11,955,155 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $ 8,566,587 Oklahoma Department of Transportation $ 6,503,362 Devon Energy Corporation $ 3,426,332 National Institutes of Health ‐ Public Health Service $ 3,293,174 U.S. Department of Energy $ 3,214,600 U.S. Department of Education $ 2,409,164 Oklahoma State University $ 1,685,762 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center $ 1,420,745 University of Minnesota $ 1,404,306 Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology $ 1,223,295 Defense ‐ Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity $ 1,187,187 3D Icon Corporation $ 1,039,221 Federal Aviation Administration $ 1,015,287 Federal Transit Administration $ 871,930 Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation $ 843,453 University of Massachusetts $ 795,371 Environmental Protection Agency $ 694,736 Oklahoma Education Technology Trust $ 671,236 Oklahoma Department of Education $ 623,691 Interior ‐ U.S. Geological Survey $ 610,919 Battelle Memorial Institute $ 598,464 OU Health Sciences Center $ 533,569 Defense ‐ Office of Naval Research $ 493,584 Federal Highway Administration $ 490,947 * These sums include expenditures from research by Norman campus programs at OU‐Tulsa, but do not include expenditures from outreach activities conducted by the College of Continuing Education. Excluded from this list is $1,039,038 from the Indirect Cost Pool allocated by the Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research. Additionally, the non‐Federal sponsors listed here may have administered programs or projects with federal dollars to fund OU research activities. In Charts 3, 4 and 6 of this report, this money is recorded as Federal Flow‐Through dollars. Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services
17 FUNDING SOURCES By Sector Source for FY 2008
Chart 5
Breakdown of OU Research Expenditures by Sector Source OU Fiscal Year 2008 Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
Multiple Sources Universities, 108,428 1,396,855 0% 2%
State and Local, 5,461,245 8%
International, 455,620 1%
Commercial, 6,713,646 Federal Direct, 38,738,199 9% 53%
Foundations/Nonprofit 4,174,257 6%
Federal Flow Through* 15,288,440 21%
*Federal Flow Through is Federal funding allocated through programs administered by these sources: city/county governments, foundations, commercial interests, international sources, nonprofit organizations, the State of Oklahoma, other states, other universities, and multiple sources. Source: Norman Campus Office of Research Services and Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services
18 FUNDING SOURCES By Federal Source for FY 2008
Chart 6a
Federal Research Expenditures by Agency for OU Fiscal Years 1999 - 2008 Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa Other Federal
45,000,000 NSF
40,000,000 NASA
EPA 35,000,000 Education 30,000,000 Health and Human 25,000,000 Services Transportation 20,000,000 Expenditures ($) Expenditures Interior
15,000,000 Justice
10,000,000 Energy
5,000,000 Defense
0 Commerce 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Agriculture Fiscal Year Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services
Chart 6b Breakdown of OU Federal Expenditures by Agency for OU FY 2008 Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa
Other Federal Agriculture 2% 0%
Commerce 22%
NSF 32% Defense 6% NASA Energy 4% 8% EPA Interior 2% 2% Education Transportation HHS 6% 6% 10%
Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program 19 FUNDING SOURCES Funding Source Trends
Chart 7
Federal Flow Through* Foundations/Non-Profit OU Expenditures by Funding Source Industry/Commercial International Multiple Sources Other States for OU Fiscal Years 1999 - 2008 State and Local Gov't Universities Norman Campus and Norman Campus Programs at OU-Tulsa Federal Direct 16,000,000 40,000,000
14,000,000 38,000,000
12,000,000 36,000,000
10,000,000 ($) Expenditures Federal Direct Federal 34,000,000
8,000,000
32,000,000 Expenditures ($) Expenditures
Non Federal Direct Direct Federal Non 6,000,000
30,000,000 4,000,000
28,000,000 2,000,000
0 26,000,000 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Fiscal Year *Federal Flow Through is Federal funding allocated through programs administered by these sources: city/county governments, foundations, commercial interests , international sources, nonprofit organizations, the State of Oklahoma, other states, other universities, and multiple sources. Source: Norman Campus Office of Sponsored Program Services 20 FUNDING SOURCES Sources by College
Chart 8a Chart 8b
College of Architecture External Funding College of Arts and Sciences External Funding Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008
100% 100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
40% 40% Expenditures Expenditures 20% Percent of Yearly 20% Percent of Yearly
0% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Commercial / Industry Federal State / Local Federal Foundation / Nonprofit International International Foundation / Nonprofit Multiple Sources Universities Multiple Sources State / Local Commercial / Industry Universities So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services
Chart 8c Chart 8d
College of Atmospheric and Geographic Michael F. Price College of Business External Sciences External Funding Sources Funding Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008
100% 100% 80% 80% 60% 60%
40% 40% Expenditures Expenditures 20% 20% Percent of Yearly Percent of Yearly
0% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Commercial / Industry Federal Foundation / Nonprofit International Federal Foundation / Nonprofit Multiple Sources State / Local Multiple Sources State / Local Universities Universities So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services
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FUNDING SOURCES Sources by College
Chart 8e Chart 78
Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy External Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education External Funding Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 Funding Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008
100% 100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
40% 40% Expenditures Expenditures Percent of Yearly
20% Percent of Yearly 20%
0% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Commercial / Industry Federal Commercial / Industry Federal Foundation / Nonprofit International Foundation / Nonprofit Multiple Sources Multiple Sources State / Local State / Local Universities Universities So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram
Chart 8g Chart 8h
College of Engineering External Funding Sources Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 External Funding Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 100% 100% 80% 80% 60% 60% 40% 40% Expenditures 20% Percent of Yearly Expenditures 20% Percent of Yearly 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year Commercial / Industry Federal Fiscal Year Foundation / Nonprofit International Foundation / Nonprofit Multiple Sources Multiple Sources Other States State / Local Universities State / Local Universities
So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services
22 FUNDING SOURCES Sources by College
Chart 8i Chart 8j
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Graduate College External Funding Sources for Communication External Funding Sources for OU OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 Fiscal Years 2005 - 2008*
100% 100% 80% 80% 60% 60%
40% 40% Expenditures Expenditures Percent of Yearly 20% 20% Percent of Yearly
0% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Federal Foundation / Nonprofit Universities Federal Foundation / Nonprofit Multiple Sources *There were no expenditures from external funding sources in 2004. So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services Source: Norman Campus Office o f Sponsored Program Services
Chart 8k Chart 8l
College of Law External Funding Sources for OU College of Liberal Studies External Funding Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008 Sources for OU Fiscal Years 2004 - 2008
100% 100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
40% 40% Expenditures Expenditures 20% Percent of Yearly Percent of Yearly 20%
0% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008* 2004 2005 2006 2007* 2008 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year State / Local Foundation / Nonprofit * There were no expenditures from external funding sources in 2008. * There were no expenditures from external funding sources in 2007. So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services So urce: No rman Campus Office o f Spo nso red P ro gram Services
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ACADEMIC OUTPUT AND IMPACT Article Counts
Chart 9a Published Journal Articles Indexed by the Web of Science* for Calendar Years 2007 - 2008**
7,000 6,143 6,030 6,000 4,629 5,000 3,663 4,000 3,238 3,045 2,500 2,476 3,000 2,171 2,078 1,926 2,000 1,675 1,663 1,629 1,106 1,000 651 0 Number of Articles Main Main Main State Austin Texas- State Kansas Indiana- Texas Oregon- Kansas- Lincoln Boulder Columbia Missouri- Oklahoma Colorado- Columbia A&M-Main Nebraska- Mississippi Iowa State S Carolina- S Baylor-Main Texas Tech Texas University Oklahoma*** * Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Index. The article counts are based on searches built from the each university's name and main campus Zip codes. It is possible programs normally associated with a medical campus, such as nursing, can be located at a main campus. The count includes other scholarship mediums as well, such as conference proceedings and reviews. ** As of Nov. 6, 2008 *** Including Norman campus research, research by Norman campus programs at OU-Tulsa, and some Health Sciences Center articles -- those published by HSC programs but are listed with Norman campus addresses.
Chart 9b Published Journal Articles Indexed by the Web of Science* Per Full-time Faculty Member** for Calendar Years 2007 - 2008***
4 3.68 2.82 2.72 3 2.41 2.32 2.32 2.20 2.03 2.00 1.78 1.73 1.71 1.69 1.67 2 1.55 0.80 1
0 Number of Articles **** State Austin Texas- State Kansas Kansas Main Lincoln Boulder Columbia Missouri- Colorado- Oklahoma Columbia Nebraska- Iowa State Mississippi S Carolina- S Texas Tech Texas Baylor-Main Indiana-Main Texas A&M- Texas Oregon-Main Oklahoma University * Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Index. The article counts are based on searches built from each university's name and main campus Zip codes. It is possible programs normally associated with a medical campus, such as nursing, can be located at a main campus. The count includes other scholarship mediums as well, such as conference proceedings and reviews. ** Full-time faculty counts are based on Fall 2007 numbers, from each university's 2007-2008 Common Data Set. Mississippi's count is from Fall 2006. *** A s o f No v. 6, 2008 **** Including Norman Campus research, research by Norman Campus programs at OU-Tulsa, and some Health Sciences Center articles -- those published by HSC programs but are listed with Norman campus addresses.
24 ACADEMIC OUTPUT AND IMPACT Web of Science Subject Areas and Academic Impact
Table 4 The 25 Subject Areas with the Most Journal Articles Indexed in the Web of Science* for Calendar Years 2007 ‐ 2008 on the Norman Campus**
Subject Area*** Article Count**** % of All OU Articles for the Period
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences 140 7.27% Astronomy & Astrophysics 81 4.21% Physics, Multidisciplinary 75 3.89% Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 70 3.63% Ecology 66 3.43% Microbiology 62 3.22% Literature 60 3.12% Environmental Science 58 3.01% History 54 2.80% Geosciences, Multidisciplinary 50 2.60% Chemistry, Physical 46 2.39% Mathematics 45 2.34% Physics, Particles & Fields 45 2.34% Zoology 43 2.23% Engineering, Electrical & Electronic 41 2.13% Materials Science, Multidisciplinary 41 2.13% Physics, Applied 40 2.08% Engineering, Chemical 38 1.97% Business 36 1.87% Neurosciences 36 1.87% Communication 35 1.82% Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology 34 1.77% Information Science & Library Science 32 1.66% Mathematics, Applied 32 1.66% Psychology, Multidisciplinary 31 1.61% *Databases include Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index. Please note that not all fields publish research via articles; other media can be favored, such as books or conference presentations. The Web of Science indexes mostly articles, but it does include these other mediums of scholarship. **OU articles with an address including a Norman Campus Zip code. This may include projects led by researchers from other institu‐ tions, OU Health Sciences Center articles using Norman campus Zip codes (most HSC‐based articles do not), and actual Norman campus articles produced by any researcher, including post docs, graduate assistants, non‐faculty researchers and fellows. ***As defined and classified by the Web of Science. **** Article count based on search conducted Nov. 10, 2008, of articles published and indexed from Calendar Years 2007 ‐ 2008. Chart 9c Academic Impact of Journal Articles Indexed in Calendar Years 2007-2008* by the Web of Science** and Based on the H-Index***
35 30 27 26 25 21 21 20 19 20 16 16 16 16 16 14 13 15 12 12 10 10 5
H-Index 0 State Austin Texas- State Kansas Main Lincoln Boulder Columbia Missouri- Oklahoma Colorado- Columbia Nebraska- Iowa State Mississippi S Carolina- S Baylor-Main Texas Tech Texas Indiana-Main A&M- Texas Univ Kansas Oregon-Main Oklahoma**** University * As of November 10, 2008 ** Includ es t he Science Cit at io n Index Expand ed, Social Science Cit at ion Ind ex, and t he A rt s and Humanit ies Ind ex. The art icle co unt s are based on searches built f rom each universit y's name and main camp us Zip cod es. It is p ossib le f o r healt h-relat ed and o t her branch campus p ro grams t o be lo cat ed on t he main campus. The count includ es ot her scholarship med iums as well, such as conf erence p ro ceeding s and reviews. ***The H-Index co unt s ho w many art icles pub lished b y researcher t hat have t hat same numb er o f cit at io ns. It is a met hod meant t o measure t he inf luence of an individ ual, so its application to a university is imperfect. Still, if applied in the same fashion to all schools, it does give some sense of co mparison. The H-indices used f o r t his met ric were based o n t he same art icle set s and co unt s d one f or t he acad emic out put met rics. ****Includ ing Norman Campus research, research b y Norman Campus p ro grams at OU-Tulsa, and some Healt h Sciences Cent er art icles -- t ho se pub lished b y HSC p ro grams but are list ed wit h No rman Camp us add resses. 25 EXPENDITURES Total Expenditures for FY 2008
Chart 10 Total Expenditures for Big 12 Institutions for Federal Fiscal Years 1996 - 2006 Norman Campus (including NC programs at OU-Tulsa) and Health Sciences Center Research Expenditures 600,000
500,000
U. CO all campuses
TX A&M U. all campuses
400,000 U. TX Austin
U. NE all campuses
IA State U.
300,000 U. MO Columbia
U. KS all campuses
U. OK all campuses* 200,000 KS State U. Expenditures ($ thousands) ($ Expenditures OK State U. all campuses
TX Tech U.
100,000
*OU's total does not include College of 0 Continuing Education 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 grants and contracts.
Fiscal Year
This chart expresses data reported to the National Science Foundation by the Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services.
26 EXPENDITURES Federally Funded Expenditures for FY 2008
Chart 11
Federally Funded Expenditures for Big 12 Institutions for Federal Fiscal Years 1996 - 2006 Norman Campus (including NC programs at OU-Tulsa) and Health Sciences Center Research Expenditures
500,000 U. CO all campuses TX A&M U. all campuses
U. TX Austin 400,000 U. NE all campuses IA State U.
U. MO Columbia 300,000 U. KS all campuses U. OK all campuses* KS State U.
200,000 OK State U. all campuses TX Tech U. Expenditures ($ thousands) ($ Expenditures
100,000 *OU's total does not include College of Continuing Education grants and contracts.
0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Fiscal Year
This chart expresses data reported to the National Science Foundation by the Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services.
27 EXPENDITURES State and Locally Funded Expenditures for FY 2008
Chart 12
State and Locally Funded Expenditures for Big 12 Institutions for Federal Fiscal Years 1996 - 2006 Norman Campus (and NC Programs at OU-Tulsa) and Health Sciences Center Research Expenditures
120,000
105,000
U. CO all campuses
90,000 TX A&M U. all campuses U. TX Austin
75,000 U. NE all campuses
IA State U.
60,000 U. MO Columbia
U. KS all campuses
45,000 U. OK all campuses*
KS State U. Expenditures ($ thousands) ($ Expenditures 30,000 OK State U. all campuses
TX Tech U. 15,000 *OU's total does not include College of Continuing Education 0 grants and contracts. 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Fiscal Year
This chart expresses data reported to the National Science Foundation by the Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services.
28 EXPENDITURES Industry Funded Expenditures for FY 2008
Chart 13
Industry Funded Expenditures for Big 12 Institutions for Federal Fiscal Years 1996 - 2006 Norman Campus (including NC Programs at OU-Tulsa) and Health Sciences Center Research Expenditures
45,000
40,000
35,000
U. CO all campuses
30,000 TX A&M U. all campuses
U. TX Austin 25,000 U. NE all campuses
IA State U. 20,000 U. MO Columbia
U. KS all campuses 15,000
Expenditures ($ thousands) ($ Expenditures U. OK all campuses*
10,000 KS State U. OK State U. all campuses 5,000 TX Tech U.
*OU's total does not 0 include College of 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Continuing Education grants and contracts. Fiscal Year
This chart expresses data reported to the National Science Foundation by the Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services.
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EXPENDITURES TOP 200 EXTERNALLY FUNDED PIs
Table 5 TOP 200 EXTERNALLY‐FUNDED PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS IN OU FISCAL YEAR 2008 RESEARCH EXPENDITURES LISTED ALPHABETICALLY PI Expenses Department^
ABBOTT B $ 163,690 Physics & Astronomy President’s Monthly ABOUSLEIMAN Y* $ 717,357 Geology & Geophysics ALGUINDIGUE S $ 149,431 Chemistry & Biochemistry Research and Development ALTAN M $ 276,316 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Highlights ANTONIO J $ 161,477 Computer Science
ASHBY M $ 389,021 Chemistry & Biochemistry February 2008 ATIQUZZAMAN M $ 178,444 Computer Science MICROBIOLOGY ATKINSON L* $ 555,997 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal AVERSO R $ 148,660 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal BALDWIN J $ 273,530 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering BARNES R $ 118,838 Electrical & Computer Engineering BASARA J $ 95,817 Oklahoma Climatological Survey BEASLEY W $ 224,676 Meteorology BERGEY E $ 155,813 Oklahoma Biological Survey BIGGERSTAFF M $ 286,236 Meteorology BINKLEY‐JACKSON D $ 408,149 Project Threshold BLUESTEIN H $ 295,327 Meteorology BRANCH D $ 130,090 Physics & Astronomy BROOKS R* $ 522,223 Oklahoma Archaeological Survey BROWN R $ 465,183 Oklahoma Geological Society Three times in a six‐month BUMM L $ 280,370 Physics & Astronomy span, articles written by Mi‐ BUTLER E $ 140,929 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science crobiology Professor Tyrell CARR F $ 138,869 Meteorology Conway and graduate stu‐ CATE J* $ 719,853 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal dents have been spotlighted CERATO A $ 135,465 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science CHESNOKOV E* $ 1,543,151 Geology & Geophysics on the cover of the journal CHILSON P $ 153,632 Meteorology Infection and Immunity. COMMURI S $ 247,548 Electrical & Computer Engineering Their novel research explains CONNELLY M $ 208,892 Psychology the nutrients used by patho‐ CONWAY T* $ 627,173 Botany & Microbiology genic E. Coli O157:H7 to in‐ COOK P $ 224,049 Chemistry & Biochemistry fect and outcompete the COURT M $ 315,927 Industrial Engineering trillions of other bacteria in CRAMER J $ 133,842 Health & Exercise Science DHALL S $ 179,177 Computer Science the colon. DOEZEMA R $ 179,430 Physics & Astronomy DROEGEMEIER K* $ 574,824 Meteorology President’s Monthly Research and Devel‐ DUCA SNOWDEN V* $ 861,399 NASA Space Grant Consortium opment Highlights is published monthly by the Norman Campus Office of the Vice DUNCAN K $ 102,483 Botany & Microbiology President. ENGEL M $ 159,583 Geology & Geophysics FAGAN J* $ 934,855 Electrical & Computer Engineering FAGG A $ 192,113 Computer Science FEDOROVICH E $ 142,994 Meteorology FOOTE J $ 91,899 College of Journalism FOSTER M $ 371,296 Anthropology GAN R $ 216,322 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering GARDNER J $ 99,487 Educational Psychology GILLILAND K* $ 685,355 Psychology GOODIN A $ 159,097 OU‐Public Opinion Learning Laboratory GRADY B $ 131,262 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering GRAMOLL K $ 147,893 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering ^ Faculty members are listed by their academic departments unless their primary appointment is with another organization. Staff members are listed with their affiliated organizations. * Ranked in Top 25 Note: These figures are dollars spent from grants; they are not award amounts. Source: Norman Campus Office of Financial Support Services
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TOP 200 EXTERNALLY‐FUNDED PI'S CONTINUED PI Expenses Department^ GREENE J $ 145,886 Geography GRILLOT S $ 246,619 Earth & Energy Dean's Office GRUENWALD G $ 235,794 Computer Science GUAN Y $ 230,935 Industrial Engineering President’s Monthly GUTIERREZ P $ 221,979 Physics & Astronomy Research and Development HAMBRIGHT K $ 454,484 Oklahoma Biological Station Highlights HARWELL J $ 102,464 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering HAVLICEK J $ 262,939 Electrical & Computer Engineering April 2008 HE Z $ 242,238 Botany & Microbiology HELLMAN C $ 119,460 Human Relations ‐Tulsa INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING HEWES R $ 108,531 Zoology HEYCK H $ 98,436 History of Science HINES K $ 215,385 Center for Spatial Analysis HOAGLAND B $ 307,496 Geography HORM D $ 100,916 Instructional Leadership & Acad. Curriculum ‐ Tulsa HOUSER R $ 165,734 Chemistry & Biochemistry JAMES T $ 161,488 Political Science JOHNSON M $ 157,943 Physics & Astronomy KAO C $ 142,749 Physics & Astronomy KAROLY D $ 137,415 Meteorology KEESEE M $ 128,132 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal KELLER G $ 324,717 Geology & Geophysics KELLY J $ 309,879 Oklahoma Biological Survey KIBBEY T $ 111,736 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science KLEBBA P $ 257,746 Chemistry & Biochemistry Yongpei Guan, assistant pro‐ KLEIN P $ 150,593 Meteorology fessor of industrial engineer‐ KLOESEL K $ 174,504 Meteorology ing, received the KOLAR R $ 296,531 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science prestigious CAREER award KRUMHOLZ L $ 226,251 Botany & Microbiology ($400,001) from the National LADUE D $ 136,614 Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms Science Foundation for his LAI F $ 192,680 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering research project titled "A LAKSHMIVARAHAN $ 180,466 Computer Science LAMB P* $ 8,093,489 Meteorology Study of Stochastic and Ro‐ LANDERS T $ 419,285 Engineering Dean's Office bust Integer Programming: LESLIE L $ 196,481 Meteorology Algorithms, Computations LI J $ 165,942 Botany & Microbiology and Applications." Guan’s LING C $ 106,727 Industrial Engineering CAREER Award brings to 10 LINN M $ 123,030 Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History the total of such awards re‐ LIPE R $ 267,716 Accounting ceived by the College of LIU H* $ 722,070 Electrical & Computer Engineering Engineering since the pro‐ LIU S $ 230,767 Chemistry & Biochemistry gram began in 1983, with LOBBAN L $ 172,220 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering another award in the final LUO Y $ 396,896 Botany & Microbiology stages of approval. MACGORMAN D $ 162,346 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies MALLINSON R $ 226,378 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering President’s Monthly Research and Devel‐ MAO C $ 286,357 Chemistry & Biochemistry opment Highlights is published monthly MARSHMENT R $ 195,752 Regional & City Planning by the Norman Campus Office of the Vice MARTIN J $ 265,032 Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment President. MASON B $ 288,073 Physics & Astronomy MAVRIPLIS C $ 118,767 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies ^ Faculty members are listed by their academic departments only unless their primary appointment is with another organization. Staff members are listed by their affiliated organizations.
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EXPENDITURES TOP 200 EXTERNALLY FUNDED PIs
TOP 200 EXTERNALLY‐FUNDED PI'S CONTINUED PI Expenses Department^ MCCANN P $ 236,728 Electrical & Computer Engineering MCFETRIDGE P $ 179,432 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering MCINERNEY M $ 236,155 Botany & Microbiology President’s Monthly MCPHERSON R $ 301,653 Oklahoma Climatological Survey Research and Development MILLER G $ 102,036 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science Highlights MILTON K $ 235,905 Physics & Astronomy
MISH K $ 222,215 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science December 2007 MORREN S $ 188,756 Center for Student Life COMMUNICATION MOSES S $ 211,388 Industrial Engineering MULLEN K $ 187,945 Physics & Astronomy MUMFORD M $ 330,872 Psychology MURALEETHARAN $ 95,859 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science MURPHY S $ 206,463 Physics & Astronomy MURPHY T $ 105,191 Mathematics NAIRN R $ 462,757 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science NANNY M $ 233,591 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science NELSON D $ 164,234 Chemistry & Biochemistry NEWMAN J $ 129,903 Electrical & Computer Engineering NICHOLAS K $ 151,011 Chemistry & Biochemistry O'HAIR D $ 164,456 Communication Communications Professor O'HAIR M* $ 975,688 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Risk Center Director Dan O'REAR E $ 146,882 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering O’Hair just completed a term PALMER R $ 167,211 Meteorology as past‐president of the Na‐ PAPAVASSILIOU D $ 142,382 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering tional Communication Asso‐ PARKER G $ 120,947 Physics & Astronomy ciation, the world’s largest PEI J $ 136,692 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science professional organization PEPPLER R* $ 477,242 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies devoted to the scholarly PHILP R $ 325,501 Geology & Geophysics study of communication. PULAT B $ 154,225 Engineering Dean's Office PULAT P* $ 670,057 Engineering Dean's Office President’s Monthly Research and Devel‐ RADHAKRISHNAN* $ 1,003,916 Computer Science opment Highlights is published monthly by the Norman Campus Office of the Vice RAI C $ 159,025 Petroleum & Geological Engineering President. RAMAN S $ 259,753 Industrial Engineering RAMSEYER C* $ 516,228 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science RECHES Z $ 301,798 Geology & Geophysics REFAI H $ 415,925 Electrical & Computer Engineering RENNAKER R $ 135,236 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering RESASCO D* $ 487,743 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering RICE C $ 103,948 Chemistry & Biochemistry RICHMAN M $ 132,759 Meteorology RICHTER‐ADDO $ 328,505 Chemistry & Biochemistry RODGERS J $ 153,673 Psychology ROE B* $ 1,968,319 Chemistry & Biochemistry RUNOLFSSON T $ 248,291 Electrical & Computer Engineering RUST W $ 94,155 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies SABATINI D $ 246,078 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science SAHA M $ 108,459 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering SANTOS M $ 268,972 Physics & Astronomy SCAMEHORN J $ 91,633 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science SCHLEGEL R* $ 685,080 Industrial Engineering ^ Faculty members are listed by their academic departments only unless their primary appointment is with another organization. Staff members are listed by their affiliated organization. * Ranked in Top 25 32 EXPENDITURES TOP 200 EXTERNALLY FUNDED PIs
TOP 200 EXTERNALLY‐FUNDED PI'S CONTINUED PI Expenses Department^ SCHMIDTKE D $ 399,925 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering SHAFER‐RAY N $ 238,408 Physics & Astronomy SHAH S $ 336,704 Petroleum & Geological Engineering SHAPIRO A $ 102,582 Meteorology SHEHAB R $ 162,075 Industrial Engineering President’s Monthly SHEN G $ 278,419 Regional & City Planning Research and Development SHI Z $ 415,756 Electrical & Computer Engineering Highlights SIGAL R $ 350,972 Petroleum & Geological Engineering SIKAVITSAS V $ 131,044 Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering November 2007 SKUBIC P $ 387,298 Physics & Astronomy SLATT R $ 343,271 Geology & Geophysics ANTHROPOLOGY SLUSS J* $ 491,804 Electrical & Computer Engineering SONDERGELD C $ 156,032 Earth & Energy Dean's Office STEVENSON B $ 113,786 Botany & Microbiology STOUT J $ 99,702 Health & Exercise Science STOWELL J $ 338,298 International Area Studies ‐ Tulsa STRAKA J $ 143,744 Meteorology STRAUSS M $ 197,270 Physics & Astronomy STREVETT K $ 401,608 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science SUFLITA J $ 374,478 Botany & Microbiology SULLIVAN R $ 256,256 Zoology TANNER R $ 221,099 Botany & Microbiology TRYTTEN D $ 391,007 Computer Science Anthropology Professor TULL M* $ 688,752 Electrical & Computer Engineering Diane Warren will receive UNO G $ 124,464 Botany & Microbiology up to $680,000 from the VAUGHN C $ 263,712 Oklahoma Biological Survey National Institutes of VERMA P $ 441,538 Electrical & Computer Engineering Health for a five‐year VIEUX B $ 265,264 Civil Engineering & Environmental Science investigation of genetic WALDEN S $ 191,182 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal factors influencing type 2 WARREN D $ 122,620 Anthropology diabetes in Oklahoma WATSON D $ 127,901 Physics & Astronomy American Indians. Her WEST A $ 338,242 Chemistry & Biochemistry WICKER L $ 173,746 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies project is part of Jian‐Xing WILLIAMS L $ 153,586 Vice President for Research Office Ma's $11M Center of Bio‐ WILLIAMS LESL $ 144,862 K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal medical Research Excel‐ WILSON D $ 211,940 Zoology lence study at OU Health WOLFINBARGER M $ 98,415 Oklahoma Climatological Survey Sciences Center. XU Q $ 111,104 Cooperative Inst. for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies XU Y $ 109,212 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering President’s Monthly Research and XUE M* $ 631,240 Meteorology Development Highlights is published YEARY M $ 246,896 Electrical & Computer Engineering monthly by the Norman Campus Office of the Vice President. YIP W $ 140,376 Chemistry & Biochemistry YU T $ 214,842 Electrical & Computer Engineering YUAN M $ 404,219 Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Dean's Office ZAMAN M* $ 568,432 Engineering Dean's Office ZGURSKAYA H $ 255,466 Chemistry & Biochemistry ZHANG D $ 150,276 Petroleum & Geological Engineering ZHANG G $ 113,981 Meteorology ZHANG Y $ 101,930 Electrical & Computer Engineering ZHOU J* $ 1,150,330 Botany & Microbiology ^ Faculty members are listed by their academic departments unless their primary appointment is with another organization. Staff members are listed by their affiliated organization. * Ranked in Top 25
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STRATEGIC RESEARCH INITIATIVES
Strategic Research Initiatives represent interdisciplinary areas of existing strength that are well‐developed in structure and usually interdisciplinary. The University challenges the researchers to develop and execute an ambitious vision, which, if endorsed by the university, is given a “hunting license” to recruit the best faculty and staff to fulfill that vision.
Integrative Life Sciences Solving broad questions, such as why our bodies age, requires the knowledge of how cells respond to chemical and bio‐ logical signals, such as whether to multiply or stop growing. The Integrative Life Sciences initiative studies the complex networks of genes and molecules that compose living organisms. Major medical breakthroughs in the 21st century will stem from understanding these complex networks.
The Initiative is made of collaborative teams of engineers, chemists, mathematicians and biologists including scientists at the OU Health Sciences Center who use advanced research tools to sample cellular processes. This multidisciplinary ap‐ proach is based on the recognition that normal cellular events, disease states, biological information storage and environ‐ mental adaptation are linked by a common basis in biochemistry at the molecular level. The ILS initiative covers the fol‐ lowing concept areas: cellular signaling, genes and gene expression, biological defense mechanisms, chemistry of life proc‐ esses, and computational and mathematical life sciences.
K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal Building a prosperous economy for tomorrow depends on the curiosity and knowledge that children develop today, espe‐ cially in science. The K20 Center is an interdisciplinary educational and research center that takes an approach to science education that is effectively cutting edge: it acts as a conduit between university researchers and more than 500 K‐12 schools in Oklahoma.
Staffed by faculty in both educational and scientific disciplines, K20 seeks to improve science education through a teaching model that emphasizes student participation. Students learn best when they produce real scientific work that is worth‐ while, significant and meaningful – just as adults do. Three objectives of this improvement effort include: 1) deepening teachers’ content knowledge and transferability of new, faculty‐developed knowledge into inquiry‐based science‐ technology‐engineering‐math (STEM) classroom practices; 2) motivating and accelerating student learning through digital game‐based learning; and 3) creating and sustaining innovative strategies through professional learning communities.
Applied Social Research The purpose of the Center for Applied Social Research (CASR) is to contribute to research and education in applied social sciences, to enhance understanding of human behavior in a variety of contexts and to develop solutions to emerging real‐ world problems. The Center’s roster of researchers is composed of faculty from across the social science spectrum – po‐ litical science and public administration, anthropology, psychology, communication, geography, and management infor‐ mation systems.
Some topics tackled by CASR researchers include risk probability in public policy, crisis management and communication, health disparities and outreach, and the performance and ethics of leaders and scientists.
Weather Radar One of the key goals of meteorologists, especially in Oklahoma, is to improve warnings of potentially hazardous weather. The improvement and accuracy of weather radar systems is the central goal of the Weather Radar strategic initiative. With the nexus of weather operations on the OU Research Campus at the National Weather Center, including NOAA’s National Weather Service Forecast Office, National Severe Storms Laboratory, and Radar Operations Center, OU is poised to be a leader in radar meteorology research, education, operations, training and outreach.
The Weather Radar initiative includes faculty from meteorology, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and civil engineering and environmental science. Concentrations for the initiative include making radar research accessible to the real world, improving radar hardware, fostering entrepreneurship and commercial partnerships within a developing radar industry, and educating students and the public about the functioning and importance of radar systems.
34 TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture — Cabinet agency administering policy regarding farming, agriculture, and food; includes the Agri‐ cultural Research Service, an OU funder
Articles — original scholarship, usually in the form of peer‐reviewed journals; in the Web of Science, can include meeting abstracts and conference proceedings, reviews (book, music, art exhibit, software, film, theater, etc.), editorial materials and news items, notes and discussions, poetry and works of fiction, among others.
Calendar Year — Jan. 1 to Dec. 31
Co‐Principal Investigator (Co‐PI) — a faculty member or researcher involved in a funded project other than the specified principal investigator
U.S. Dept. of Commerce — Cabinet agency including the Census bureau and OU funder National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Disbursement — all or part of an award received by the university; an award (aka grant) can come in one or several disburse‐ ments
U.S. Dept. of Energy— Cabinet agency overseeing energy policy and the development of alternative energy sources; funds much of OU nanotechnology research
EPA— Environmental Protection Agency; funds OU environmental education and water projects
External (Extramural) funding — grants or contracts from non‐OU sources
Expenditures — dollars from a sponsor for a research project or service contract spent by the University
Federal Direct — dollars coming directly from a Federal agency
Federal Fiscal Year — Oct. 1 to Sept. 30
Federal Flow Through — federal funding allocated through programs administered by these sources: city and county govern‐ ments, foundations, commercial interests, international sources, nonprofit organizations, the State of Oklahoma, other states, other universities, and multiple sources
H‐Index — a measure for a researcher’s academic impact, or influence; calculated by counting the number of articles a re‐ searcher has published that has the same number of citations; an H‐index of four means that a research has four papers with at least four citations; considered a medium between counting publications (which measures academic output) and citations (the reference of one article in another researcher’s work)
HHS — Health Human Services; Cabinet department that includes OU funder the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NASA— National Aeronautics and Space Administration; OU leads the Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium
NSF — National Science Foundation; the largest funder of OU Norman/Tulsa campus research, across many fields
OU (or State) Fiscal Year — July 1 to June 30
Principal Investigator (PI) — a faculty member or researcher who leads a funded project
Proposal — solicited or unsolicited request for funding for a research project or a contract of services provided to the funder
Success Rate — number of proposals funded divided by the total number of proposals submitted; this number can change over time as funding statuses change
U.S. Dept. of Transportation — Cabinet agency overseeing systems and projects of all modes of transportation; includes OU contractee Federal Aviation Administration
Web of Science — a web‐based scientific information provider managed by Thomson Reuters; maintains databases of arti‐ cles in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and the humanities 35 Office of the Vice President for Research University Research Cabinet Robertson Hall, Room 100 One Partners Place, Suite 1780 731 Elm Avenue 350 David L. Boren Boulevard Norman, OK 73019‐2115 Norman, OK 73072‐7264 http://research.ou.edu/ http://researchcabinet.ou.edu/ Telephone: (405) 325‐3806 ● Fax: (405) 325‐5346 Telephone: (405) 325‐3926
The mission of the Office of the Vice President for The University Research Cabinet serves as a consistent, Research, Norman Campus, is to facilitate faculty and continuing and timely mechanism to enable the staff scholarship in all disciplines represented on the leadership of all three campuses to collaboratively Norman Campus and Norman Campus programs at OU facilitate research excellence and productivity, ‐Tulsa. particularly in those instances in which multi‐campus participation results in an institutional value and competitive advantage for the University.