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1998 Research Report Main Page
Report from the Vice President for Research
Center for Laser and Photonics Research
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business Administration
College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
College of Human Environmental Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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"Arts and Sciences faculty have made a commitment to excellence in teaching at all levels and at the same time, have been successful in their attempts to attract competitive funding from federal, state, and private sources."
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Fifth-grade students from Wheeler Elementary School in Oklahoma City visit OSU as part of the Write for Your Life project. The project is aimed at improving reading and writing skills of students. This group met with author Mike McGuffee (center) in the Curriculum Materials Lab. |
Faculty of the College of
Arts and Sciences maintain an active role in the academic enterprise.
Arts and Sciences faculty have made a commitment to excellence
in teaching at all levels and at the same time have been successful
in their attempts to attract competitive funding from federal,
state, and private sources. These funds not only help to support
research activities in the college, but also assist in the development
and maintenance of a wide variety of instructional and outreach
programs offered by the college.
In addition to teaching at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Arts and Sciences
faculty members attracted nearly $11 million in external grant
support this year. As has been the case for the past several
years, there is nearly one grant per faculty member in the college.
Each faculty member makes approximately six presentations to
local, regional, national, or international audiences annually
and publishes more than 2 articles per year in professional journals.
Members of the faculty are recognized by their peers with awards
and honors from professional organizations, (Lisa Lewis, assistant
professor of English was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry)
and nearly every Arts and Sciences faculty member is the major
advisor for a student working on a dissertation or thesis. A&S
faculty members serve as reviewers for federal granting agencies,
editors of professional journals, and judges for art, music,
and theatre competitions. Faculty members also serve on a number
of advisory panels for a variety of federal and state agencies.
Research funds awarded to
the College not only help to underwrite the costs of individual
research projects, but also enable the college to purchase research
equipment, fund conferences and colloquia which attract visitors
from around the nation and the world to OSU, and to provide unique
educational experiences for undergraduate and graduate students
in the college.
Here is a sampling of Arts and Sciences research highlights:
Departments of Art, Music, and Theatre
Departments of English,
History, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages and Literature
Department of Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
Departments of Botany, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology
Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Zoology
Faculty in the College of
Arts and Sciences strive to provide an outstanding educational
experience not only to OSU students, but to learners at all levels.
For example, undergraduate students with a variety of majors
will benefit from a new general education biological science
course that makes use of new collaborative/investigative techniques
for teaching and learning. Other grants have made it possible
to develop a program to improve the reading and writing skills
of fifth grade students, to provide workshops for mathematics
and science educators, and to foster the interest of minority
students in the physical and biological sciences.
The Office of the Dean
has received both federal and state funding to provide a
series of summer academies, course strengthening and formulation
of a curriculum for para-teachers, revised general education
courses in science and mathematics to better meet the needs of
pre-service teachers, and support for programs for teachers in
their early careers as part of a program conducted by the Oklahoma
Teacher Education Consortium.
The college has hosted a
variety of conferences in fields as diverse as mathematics, geology,
history, and foreign languages during the past year. These meetings
have been funded in part by grants from both federal and private
funding agencies and have attracted scholars from around the
world to campus.
This is just a small sample
of the research being conducted by members of the faculty of
the College of Arts and Sciences. The College, through its extramural
grants program, seeks to enhance undergraduate educational opportunities
and expand the frontiers of knowledge for all mankind. In so
doing, the College plans to expand its graduate population, enhance
its research facilities, and provide for increased economic development
for the state of Oklahoma.