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OSU Office of Research plays vital role in university, state
Goal is to pass on new knowledge for benefit of all
COLUMBUS -- Vice President for Research C. Bradley Moore outlined The Ohio State University’s Office of Research goals and highlights in a report to the Board of Trustees Friday (12/6). Ohio State recorded almost $350 million in research expenditures in Fiscal Year 2001, up from under $300 million the year before. On top of that good news, the Ohio State University Research Foundation (OSURF) reported a total of almost $39 million in awards in October, the biggest month in Ohio State’s history. The next closest one-month total was $28.7 million in June 2000.
Moore noted that in its support role, the Office of Research seeks to sustain and enhance the university’s outstanding faculty; build research in areas of major opportunity, especially multidisciplinary programs; design and implement a fund-raising strategy that includes federal, state and private support; develop and implement a facilities plan that includes new buildings and major research facilities; and move new knowledge and technologies created by research into applications that capture the full value of research for the citizens of Ohio, among other goals.
Also reporting to the board about one of Ohio State’s highly successful interdisciplinary research programs was Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a professor of psychology and psychiatry who recently was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors American researchers can attain. Kiecolt-Glaser’s career has led her to a position of international prominence in the field of psychoneuroimmunology — the study of the impact that psychological stress can have on the immune system. She and her colleagues at Ohio State’s Institute of Behavioral Medicine Research have helped bring the field from infancy to its current status as a thriving area of study.
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