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Research and Public Service 2012Research and Public Service 2012University of MissouriAnnual Report of Grants and Contracts

2 RESEARCH DIVISION FY 2012 ANNUAL REPORT 3

The still precarious state of our nation’s economic recovery — as well as intensifying com-petitive pressures from across the globe — make it imperative that we continue to support the economy-enhancing work of our scientists and scholars.

Instead, just the opposite is happening. Drastic cuts in fed-eral discretionary spending, the result of the so-called sequester, threaten to severely weaken the ability of universities like MU to continue the scientific research and development activ-ity that our nation so desperate-ly needs. This is a profound threat to both the nation’s long-term growth prospects and to the financial well-being of thousands of Missourians.

According to data compiled by Science Works For U.S., a project of the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and The Science Coalition, sequestration will reduce federal funding for scientific research by nearly $95 billion over the next nine years, which will result in a reduction of U.S. GDP by at least $203 billion.The net impact could be 200,000 fewer jobs — many of them in important, well-paying high-tech fields — for each year between 2013 and 2016.

Here at MU, in the current year alone close to $17 million in previously awarded federal funds are in peril, about 10 percent of the university’s federal funding for research. Such cuts are of partic-ular concern given the importance of several of MU’s newly funded investigations, many of which, ironically, have the potential to save the federal treasury millions. Among the most noteworthy:

• A four-year, $14.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Sinclair School of Nursing and Curators’ Professor

Federal 53% $253,806,141

Other 5%

State of Missouri 20%Nonprofit 4% For-Profit 18%

$27,322,657

$87,109,070 $17,920,559

$93,238,100

Now More Than Ever, University Scientists and Scholars Deserve Our Support

During the previous fiscal year, agencies of the United States government awarded MU faculty scientists and scholars close

to $170 million for sponsored research and instruction and public service projects.

These dollars, the life’s blood of MU’s research enterprise, were generated mostly through competitive submission processes involv-ing researchers from many of the nation’s top institutions. Only the most important projects from the best investigators eventually gain support.

That MU has been so consistently well represented among proj-ects selected for sponsorship is a testament to the energy, ambition and excellence of our faculty. Thanks in large part to their efforts, the University has not just enhanced its position as one of the nation’s premier centers of research and higher learning, but has also emerged as a major force in Missouri’s economic development. In recent years, for example, companies licensing MU-generated intellectual property have tallied over $1 billion in sales.

BY ROBERT V. DUNCANVice Chancellor for Research

About the Cover: President Barack

Obama in February

awarded M. Frederick

Hawthorne, Curators’

Distinguished

Professor of

Chemistry and

Radiology, the

National Medal

of Science. It is

the highest honor

bestowed by the

nation to its scientists.

Published by the

MU Office of Research, 205 Jesse Hall, Columbia, MO 65211

Data: Samuel L. Peterson • [email protected]

Editor: Charles E. Reineke • [email protected]

Photos courtesy of MU Publications

Reporting by the staff of the MU News Bureau

Year in Review ....................................................... 2

Support Totals ....................................................... 4

Sponsored Research ............................................. 6

Technology Management ..................................... 8

Instruction and Public Service ........................... 10

Vice Chancellor for Research Robert Duncan

FY 2012 Research Annual Report

Other Federal, including flow-through dollarsData represent total expenditures as adjusted for FY 2010 reporting model

$ 525,000,000

450,000,000

375,000,000

300,000,000

225,000,000

150,000,000

75,000,000

$322,564,260

$343,129,001

$434,837,201

$425,620,747

$479,396,526

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

Externally Sponsored Grants and Contracts

During the previous fiscal year, scientists and scholars at the University of Missouri

generated record levels of sponsored research and instruction and public service

support. Totals in this year’s report, as seen below, have been calculated to include

funding related to academic enterprises — an approach intended to more accurately

reflect the size and scope of MU’s research and scholarly enterprise.

Research and Public Service 2012Research and Public Service 2012University of MissouriAnnual Report of Grants and Contracts

FY 2012 TOTALS

FY 2008

Other Federal, including flow-through dollarsData represent total awards as adjusted for FY2010 reporting model

$329,524,641

$373,240,215

$485,177,973

$446,519,481

$468,334,724

FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

525,000,000

450,000,000

375,000,000

300,000,000

225,000,000

150,000,000

75,000,000

Increased levels of funding from

federal, state and for-profit agencies

helped boost MU expenditures

in FY 12. Over the past decade,

investigators at MU have been

consistently ranked among the

nation’s leaders in growth rates for

externally supported projects.

Expenditures Up as Federal, State Funding Increases

Total Expenditures, Five-year Trend

Total Awards, Five-year Trend

Total Expenditures, by Sponsor: $479,396,526

of Nursing Marilyn Rantz. Rantz and her team of MU researchers will use the funds to discover ways of reducing avoidable “re-hospitalizations” among nursing home resi-dents. Unnecessary hospital admissions not only imperil the well-being of patients, but are a significant driver in pushing up nation-al health care costs.

• A $3 million grant from the USDA to Jerry Taylor, the Wurdack Chair in Animal Genomics at MU, to determine what specific genes play a role in breeding prob-lems and other issues in the cattle industry — a project that could significantly increase the efficiency of cattle reproduction.

• A $2.4 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to establish a Terrorism and Disaster Center that will train mental health providers to aid communities before and after natural and man-made disasters.

Last summer, MU Chancellor Brady Deaton was signatory, along with the lead-ers of every major research university in the nation, to a letter to Congress that neatly summed up the reasons why the sequestration cuts should be reversed. “Americans know that investments in edu-cation and scientific research pay long-term dividends,” the letter read.

“Federal support for scientific research and student financial aid laid the foundation for the dramatic expansion of the 20th cen-tury U.S. economy and can do the same in the 21st. These investments produce the people and the ideas that lead to new prod-ucts, new businesses, and entire new indus-tries, as well as the jobs that go with them.

“… As national leaders in higher educa-tion, we urge you to show America and the world that our country’s political system is capable of solving serious problems. The choices will not be easy, but throughout our nation’s history, American leaders have overcome great challenges with difficult decisions and sensible compromises. Please do so again and do so now.”

I am confident all of our faculty scien-tists and scholars would endorse this view, as would, I hope, every Missourian who cares about the continued vitality of research and scholarship. Let’s make sure our federal rep-resentatives hear it from all of us: Now more than ever, MU scientists and scholars deserve our support.

In this report you will encounter charts and graphs that

reflect the extent of funders’ involvement in MU research.

Some are expressed in terms of “expenditures,” which

represent resources spent by a researcher during

a given fiscal year. Others are expressed as

“awards,” which show the total amount

of funds available for use, money

often expended over a

period of

years.

Expenditures and Awards


workers leave. “In the immediate aftermath we see a honeymoon phase in which other communi-ties and national media rally around disaster victims,” Houston says. “After that phase, survivors may experience disillu-sionment as they try to cope with a new, altered reality without their loved ones or homes and no longer receive widespread attention and expressions of sympathy.”

Nursing Grant Aims to Reduce Unnecessary ‘Re-Hospitalizations’

The Sinclair School of Nursing in November announced a nearly $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health

and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Led by Curators’ Professor of Nursing Marilyn Rantz, MU researchers will use the funds, distributed over four years, to imple-ment a project aimed at reducing avoidable re-hospitalizations among nursing home residents. Insights gained from this project could provide a nationwide model for senior care and significantly reduce national health care spending.

“The term, ‘ecstatic,’ does not capture my current sentiment,” said Judith Fitzgerald Miller, dean of the Sinclair School of Nursing. “This is a transformational grant for the university and is congruent with our passion for excellence in health care. The care of older adults will be improved as a result of this work.”

The majority of nursing home residents are enrolled in Medicaid and most also participate in Medicare, CMS reports. Previous research suggests that nearly half of hospitalizations among nursing home residents enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid could have been avoided. These potentially avoidable hospitaliza-tions amounted to more than $7 billion in 2011.

MU will partner with CMS and state Medicaid programs to improve care for residents at 16 nursing facilities in St. Louis. The MU researchers will oversee the project and, using grant funds, the team will recruit and place one advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) at each of the nursing homes. APRNs receive specialized post-graduate educations in nursing. The APRNs will work with nursing facility staff and residents’ health providers to coordinate patient care and improve the recognition, assessment and manage-

ment of conditions that are common causes of hospitalizations for aging adults.

“Previous research has shown that every time patients move from nursing homes to hospitals and back to nursing facilities, their conditions deteriorate,” said Rantz, who has spent more than three decades conducting research to improve seniors’ quality of life. “Older adults have subtle changes in their behaviors and in their health statuses. In nursing homes, improving the observation and assessment processes by advanced practice nurses can help residents receive treatment earlier and avoid unnecessarily going back to hospitals.”

The APRNs at each facili-ty will work with a traveling interdisciplinary team consist-ing of a master’s-trained social worker, an information technol-ogy specialist, a medical director and an APRN with specialized knowledge of INTERACT II, a quality improvement pro-gram designed to monitor and improve aging adults’ health.

Center to Support Mental-Health Needs of Disaster, Terror Victims

The emotional fallout from traumatic events such as the Boston Marathon bombings and Hurricane Sandy are long

term and difficult to treat. But with the help of a $2.4 million fed-eral grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration experts at MU’s new Terrorism and Disaster Center will help mental health care workers provide better care before and after natural and man-made disasters.

Assistant Communication Professor J. Brian Houston, co-director of the center, says staff will focus on mental and behavioral health preparedness along with recovery and resilience work with children, families and communities affected by disasters. They will pay particular attention to the long-term difficulties of victims who are left to cope after national media, politicians and disaster relief

Research and Instruction & Public Service Grants and Contracts

FY 2012 Research Instruction and Public Service Totals

Proposals Submitted 1,474 718 2,192

Active Funded Projects 1,952 1,179 3,131

Newly Awarded Projects $141,491,340 $92,700,325 $234,191,665

Research$ 133,836,661

Academic Enterprise$ 262,861,572 Instruction and

Public Service $ 82,698,294

“Transitioning between hospitals and nursing homes is a com-plicated process because the exchange of accurate, complete and timely information often is convoluted,” Rantz said. “The interdis-ciplinary team will put the infrastructure in place to support good communication, which will help improve the patients’ care.”

Research$ 133,686,746

Academic Enterprise$ 262,861,572

Instruction and Public Service $ 71,786,406

Total ExpendituresBy Activity Type

Total AwardsBy Activity Type

Academic Enterprise, by Division

Sandy’s aftermath.

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

NSF Report 1 $245,686,918 $245,058,000 $238,499,639 $230,657,153 $239,810,000

Report on Research and Public Service 2

$127,396,019 $133,532,253 $136,937,177 $133,873,878 $133,836,661

Research and Development Expenditures, comparison including data reported to the National Science Foundation

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

Extension $45,642,808 $47,311,911 $92,499,712 $87,229,772 $80,404,405

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

$23,158,063 $25,068,706 $39,902,285 $44,144,795 $52,248,613

Veterinary Medicine $5,326,849 $16,804,159 $21,723,726 $20,389,295 $31,033,983

UM System $24,022,228 $25,442,031 $29,003,020 $22,046,578 $29,863,723

University Hospital $0 $0 $4,478,285 $4,050,516 $27,029,841

Office of Research $9,606,043 $10,577,760 $10,853,601 $11,894,774 $13,746,393

Medicine $4,537,212 $5,580,477 $11,943,755 $11,259,859 $11,864,589

Provost $0 $0 $1,233,443 $839,156 $5,909,885

Education $4,910,764 $5,817,268 $5,697,337 $5,536,764 $5,744,512

Engineering $11,560 $27,960 $1,331,336 $1,152,099 $1,378,114

Journalism $204,660 $266,870 $1,168,389 $982,064 $1,019,853

Human Environmental Sciences

$652,192 $720,473 $ 759,947 $831,664 $782,994

Arts & Science $223,200 $428,640 $691,918 $532,439 $720,130

Health Professions $20 $2,612 $567,614 $459,318 $536,086

Other $86,606 $54,886 $158,325 $0 $578,452

TOTAL $118,382,205 $138,103,753 $222,012,693 $211,492,878 $262,861,572

1 National Science Foundation expenditure data are calculated to include both internal and external funding for research. They exclude certain activities, such as clinical trials, in which an external entity specifies an experimental protocol. For more information, visit nsf.gov 2 Includes only externally-funded MU research activities.

Time for Tea: Residents of Tiger Place, a senior-care facility in Columbia. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last year awarded $14.8 million to MU for research aimed at reducing hospitalization rates among nursing home residents.


Stalled federal funding keeps external sponsor-ship flat in FY2012

MU facilities and administration cost recoveries again top the $37 million markIn addition to providing dollars

directly to investigators, agencies

also provide a percentage of grants

for “facilities and administration”

costs. The rate at which these costs

are recovered is a reimbursement

based on the cost of building

and maintaining MU’s research

infrastructure. Higher rates of F&A

recovery allow the University to

better support the work of its faculty

investigators.

Federal awards fall to five-year low as agencies brace for sequester cutsOngoing support from federal agencies, among them the Department of Health and

Human Services/NIH, USDA and the National Science Foundation, was reduced in

advance of “sequester” cuts mandated by Congress.

$30,000,000

25,000,000

20,000,000

15,000,000

10,000,000

5,000,000

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

$34,345,076

$31,977,033

$35,649,249

$37,078,170

$ 37,641,331

Federal 86%

For P

rofit 5%

Nonprofit 6%

Other 1%

Federal $ 114,357,577

For Profit $ 6,987,011

Nonprofit$ 7,736,164

State ofMissouri$ 2,987,242

Other$ 1,768,668

Missouri 2%

DIVISIONS FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

School of Medicine $29,766,076 $30,928,993 $31,371,339 $29,375,226 $31,426,078

Collaborative Index 3.47 2.75 2.49 2.63 2.58

College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources $33,871,727 $34,353,524 $31,904,214 $32,094,439 $30,652,449


College of Arts & Science $19,341,854 $18,354,158 $19,683,000 $19,308,159 $20,047,926


College of Engineering $11,492,158 $13,942,557 $17,098,650 $18,306,314 $19,383,472


College of Veterinary Medicine $14,332,219 $15,604,458 $14,607,871 $13,251,207 $11,105,683


Research Division $5,934,956 $7,572,182 $8,754,553 $8,338,661 $9,974,408


College of Education $3,875,446 $4,131,713 $ 4,548,614 $4,902,136 $5,659,098


Sinclair School of Nursing $2,909,613 $3,209,872 $3,021,082 $2,510,338 $1,983,410


Graduate School $2,170,310 $1,687,597 $2,162,916 $2,135,455 $1,409,294


College of Human Environmental Sciences $1,063,979 $1,064,043 $1,133,662 $1,195,837 $982,165


School of Health Professions $1,545,809 $2,026,166 $1,818,297 $1,738,244 $802,355


School of Journalism $433,941 $306,336 $324,812 $236,340 $196,637


Other $657,930 $350,653 $458,351 $524,837 $213,686


TOTALS $127,396,019 $133,532,253 $136,937,177 $133,873,878 $133,836,661

Collaborative Index Average 3.28 3.05 2.82 2.85 2.74

Sponsored Research Expenditures By Division, Shared Credit and Collaborative Index

Federal Government 84%

For Profit 5%

Nonprofit 7%

State of Missouri 3% Other 1%$6,256,977

$10,082,338

$1,565,203 $3,813,340

Total FY 2012 Sponsored Research Awards: $133,686,746

HHS/NIH $49,111,916

USDA $12,148,624

NSF $17,506,166 Defense $17,612,888

Energy $7,254,293

Education $2,033,981

VA $ 934,957

Interior $2,504,526

Other $1,235,646

NASA $598,417

Total Federal $111,968,888

Transportation $1,027,474

Research Awards by Funding Agency and Amount

Federal Research Expenditures, In Millions

25

50

75

100

2008 2009 2010

2011

2012

114.4

124.9

142.1

120.3

111.9

25

50

75

100

2008 2009 2010

2011

2012

108.7

112.6

116.9

116.4

114.3

FY 2012 Research Expenditures, By Sponsor Type

Facilities and Administration Costs Reimbursed

S P O N S O R E D RESEARCH

Total sponsored research expenditures at the University of Missouri remained flat in FY 2012 at just under $134 mil-

lion, a statistically insignificant decline compared to the previous fiscal year total.

As in previous years, expenditures generated from federal sources, most of which are awarded through the competitive grants process, accounted for the bulk of sponsored research funding. In FY 2012, both federal research expenditures and awards showed modest declines.

Faculty scientists and scholars working in medicine, arts and science, agriculture, and engineering accounted for well over half of all sponsored-research expenditures. Of particular note was the School of Medicine, which, by tallying just over $31.4 million, sur-passed the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources as MU’s expenditure leader. The College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science each showed expenditure gains in FY 2012, with both setting all time highs for their respective colleges. For detailed information, including expenditure and awards data for individual MU departments, please visit our recently rede-signed and updated “Annual Report Web Query Tool.” You’ll find it in the publications section of the Office of Research Web site: http://research.missouri.edu/ Federal Research Awards,

In Millions

*Division Credit and Collaborative Index

Shared credit represents each academic unit’s portion of the total amount expended on research activities. Full cred-it (not shown) assigns the entire expenditure to each divi-sion in the collaboration, regardless of its specific portion. Dividing “full” by “shared” credit yields a measure new to this report — the collaborative index — a ratio reflect-ing the scope of interdisciplinary research at MU. A high-er collaborative index figure means a greater percentage of funds were expended on interdisciplinary projects.


Last fall, MU scientists began a study to determine how non-food biofuel crops,

such as switchgrass, can best be cultivated in marginal land along the floodplains where most food crops cannot thrive. The goal? To increase biofuel production with-out impacting food production.

The team in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources has received a $5.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to further its research. The project is part of a $125 mil-lion international project to further research that will study how to use marginal land to grow high-yield, biofuel crops and convert them to advanced biofuels.

“In the 10 states along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, 100 million acres of marginalized agricultural land is unused or underutilized often due to frequent flood-ing,” said Shibu Jose, H.E. Garrett Endowed Professor in the School of Natural Resources and director of the MU Center for Agroforestry.

“If farmers can plant just 10 percent of marginal floodplain land with crops desig-nated for use in biofuels, we can produce 6 to 8 billion gallons of liquid fuel annually. Planting this land with crops designated for biofuels would have little to no effect on the food supply.”

Grasses to Make Biofuel Food-Friendly

The University and the city of Columbia last year announced a new partnership that will utilize national

resources to build an ultra-high-speed internet network avail-able to homes and businesses throughout the city. The part-nership, known as “Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project,” pairs research institutions with city leaders with the goal of building a successful network that will support ingenuity, ideas and economic growth.

“We are excited about this opportunity to build the future capacity and infrastructure for a knowledge-based economy in Missouri,” said Chancellor Brady Deaton. “While we are only in the initial phases of this partnership, this new agreement could result in research grants and more companies wishing to relocate to our region, stimulating our local and state econo-mies.”

MU and Columbia are among 30 research institutions and local communities that are participating in the project.

MU, Columbia pursue next-generation internet project

At MU’s Office of Technology Management and Industry Relations

(OTMIR), staff members work to create value for tomorrow by helping faculty to identify, assess, protect and market com-mercially viable intellectual property devel-oped at the University. OTMIR evaluates new technologies, obtains patent protection where needed, identifies licensees and negotiates all intellectual property agree-ments.

The goal is to identify “commercializ-able” technology resulting from research at MU. Faculty and staff inventors make sig-nificant contributions to the University’s core missions. OTMIR is dedicated to pro-tecting intellectual property rights and transforming research related to these con-tributions into successful products and pro-cesses.

Toward those ends, the office encourag-es close communication between OTMIR staff and inventors. These relationships result in more effective and efficient patent-ing, marketing and licensing of technolo-gies. Faculty start-up companies, for exam-ple, can license University-owned technolo-gies.

Technology management and industry relations also involve legally protecting intellectual property while seeking income for both the University and inventor. In

OTMIR Works to Foster Creativity, Discovery

addition, OTMIR works to enhance industrial relations and sup-port regional economic development — both activities which pro-vide very real benefits to the public.

The University of Missouri will achieve national prominence in technology management and industry relations by providing an environment that fosters intellectual discovery, creative prob-lem solving and the dis-semination and applica-tion of knowledge. MU must also work to con-duct programs that contribute significantly to the economic devel-opment of Missouri and the nation. At OTMIR, this means offer-ing support services to research clientele and industry partners and actively seeking to establish national and international partnerships in research and commercialization.

How can OTMIR help? The office receives invention dis-closure forms and evaluates discoveries and inventions for their novelty, utility and commercial relevance. The office manages the intellectual property and works to satisfy the reporting and compliance obligations of federal, state and industry sponsored research contracts. OTMIR staff also assist faculty members who are seeking intellectual property protection and can identi-fy potential licensees and negotiate a variety of intellectual property-related agreements for commercially viable technolo-gies.

To learn more, please visit OTMIR on the web at http://tmir.missouri.edu.

T E C H N O L O G Y MANAGEMENT

Intellectual Property Options / Licenses

25

50

75

100

125

150

175

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

39 38

66

51

90

116

78

168

23

183

Cumulative number of active licenses and options. New licenses and options signed.

To make biofuel, farmers grow crops that are harvested and shipped to a nearby facility where the biomass is condensed into small pellets or converted to fuel. The pel-lets also can be shipped to larger plants where they are converted into fuel if rural plants are not equipped for the biofuel con-version. Jose envisions a network of farmers producing biomass and shipping it to local pellet-producers, who will ship the pellets to refineries.

New Invention Disclosures

106

73

69

93

77

120 100 80 60 40 20

FY 2012

FY 2011

FY 2010

FY 2009

FY 2008

Patents Issued

7

5

21

15

19

30 25 20 15 10 5

FY 2012

FY 2011

FY 2010

FY 2009

FY 2008

Licensing Income from MU Inventions

10,075,369

6,193,845

6,331,296

4,0006,0008,00010,000

FY 2008

FY 2009

FY 2010

FY 2011

FY 2012

2,000

Per $1,000

9,496,220

7,375,777

Patent Applications Filed

70

74

77

88

50

80100 60 40 20

FY 2012

FY 2011

FY 2010

FY 2009

FY 2008

Switchgrass, soon appearing at a filling station near you.


&Instruction and public service (IPS) activities, conducted

in concert with scholarly and scientific research, comprise an integral part of the MU mission. Externally funded IPS expendi-tures (as distinguished from those funded internally by University sources) topped $82 million in FY 2012, an increase of more than $2 million over last year’s total. Newly awarded IPS funds, meanwhile, declined sharply. The total of $71.7 million represents a 25 percent decline from FY 2011.

As in previous years, MU Extension accounted for the largest share of externally funded IPS expenditures. Extension’s total of more than $23.9 million was its highest ever, up significantly over the previous record high set just last year. The College of Education, the School of Medicine, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Arts and Science together generated just under $35 million, or about 43 percent, of the fiscal year’s sponsored IPS expenditures. The federal government was again the largest single sponsor of University IPS activity in FY 2012, pro-viding some 76 percent of total expenditures and 80 percent of newly awarded funds. Expenditures from state sources dropped 18 percent, while nonprofit dollars gained almost 8 percent.

For more detailed information, including data recorded by departments within MU’s schools and colleges, please visit our Annual Report Web Query Tool. Find it online at: research.missouri.edu/

Federal instruction and public service awards declined sharply in FY 2012. Expenditures

from the federal government, on the other hand, showed significant gains over FY 2011

with totals exceeding last year’s record high.

Federal IPS Award Totals Show DeclineCharting a Course to GIS Learning

Interactive maps and Geographic Information Systems have become a part of daily life. When coupled with demographic and environmental data, they can also

become powerful research tools. Now, thanks to an MU geographer, the University-hosted Missouri Geographic Alliance and a corporate partner, all K-12 schools and certified youth programs in the state have free access to GIS data and detailed maps.

“Name something you want to know more about, and GIS can help you understand how it plays out in the real world,” says MU geospatial extension special-ist Shannon White. “Students and teachers will be able to create their own research projects on topics as diverse as regional nutrition, political divisions, environmental change, agriculture and urban planning. Instead of just reading a book about these topics students will be able to explore them and create their own maps using GIS. Since the system is constantly updated, it won’t go out of date like a textbook.”

White coordinated with ESRI, a GIS provider based in Redlands, Calif., to make free GIS access possible.

IPS Expenditures Up in FY 2012

I N S T R U C T I O N PUBLIC SERVICE

Federal 76%

Missouri 12%

Nonprofit 10%

For P

rofit 1%

Oth

er <1%

Federal $ 63,317,087

State of Missouri$ 9,908,592

Nonprofit$ 8,254,502

Other$ 618,324

For Profit$ 599,790

IPS Expenditures, By Sponsor Type

IPS Expenditures By Division, Shared Credit and Collaborative Index*

DIVISIONS FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012

Extension $19,129,858 $20,567,253 $20,137,419 $23,114,782 $23,945,681


School of Medicine $15,015,536 $12,627,316 $15,301,737 $16,061,071 $12,206,860


College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources $3,242,304 $3,154,728 $5,668,633 $7,098,912 $7,752,296


College of Education $7,742,173 $8,380,874 $7,267,854 $6,708,067 $6,042,646


College of Arts & Science $2,401,552 $2,102,897 $3,212,818 $5,123,146 $5,461,716


Academic Affairs $1,432,024 $1,508,010 $2,452,987 $1,351,007 $4,621,143


Research Division $4,535,777 $5,268,795 $4,682,412 $3,373,060 $3,789,912


Information Systems $3,253,592 $3,270,695 $3,191,717 $3,159,250 $3,159,250


College of Human Environmental Sciences $2,645,197 $2,637,455 $2,540,114 $3,155,506 $3,059,184


Graduate School $ 1,751,128 $1,706,869 $ 1,481,463 $2,161,680 $2,436,293


School of Health Professions $1,589,029 $1,763,288 $1,416,571 $1,426,472 $2,378,549


College of Engineering $3,037,241 $1,711,747 $1,251,576 $1,303,617 $1,783,077


Student Affairs $1,074,937 $1,364,474 $3,005,749 $1,724,646 $1,683,584


Other $10,388,813 $5,477,118 $4,254,063 $5,525,275 $4,378,102


TOTALS $76,786,036 $71,492,995 $75,887,331 $80,253,990 $82,698,294

Collaborative Index Average 2.07 1.71 1.73 2.01 2.04

Federal IPS Awards, In Millions

20

40

60

80

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

50.3

53.8

66.2

76.9

57.6

20

40

60

80

2008 2009 2010 2011

2012

53.0

45.3

51.8

59.3

63.3

On the road to real-world mapping.

Federal IPS Expenditures, In Millions

IPS Awards by Funding Agency and Amount

For Profit 1%

Nonprofit 9%

State of Missouri 8% Other 2%

$ 774,063

$ 6,596,206

$ 1,066,373 $ 5,676,598

Total FY 2012 Instruction and Public Service Awards: $71,786,406

Total Federal $ 57,673,166

Federal Government 80%

Education $ 9,479,108

NSF $ 2,587,459

HHS $13,793,358

DOT $ 1,038,773

Energy $ 1,986,041

Labor $ 686,963

SBA $ 3,392,689 Commerce $ 4,295,107

USDA $ 16,453,492

Other $ 3,257,914

Defense $ 702,262

*Division Credit and Collaborative Index

Shared credit represents each academic unit’s portion of the total amount expended on IPS activities. Full credit (not shown) assigns the entire expenditure to each divi-sion in the collaboration, regardless of its specific portion. Dividing “full” by “shared” credit yields a measure new to this report — the collaborative index — a ratio reflect-ing the scope of interdisciplinary IPS activities at MU. A higher collaborative index figure means a greater percent-age of funds were expended on interdisciplinary projects.

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