The OU Health Sciences Center in FY 2006 continued its impressive rate of research growth by achieving more than $135 million in federal, state, corporate and nonprofit or foundation grants and contracts.

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OU Norman Research Campus

Hougen Lab in Stephensons Research and Technology Center and the National Weather Center atrium The Mission of the University of Oklahoma is to provide the best possible educational experience for our students through excellence in teaching, research and creative activity, and service to the state and society.

During the past decade, research expenditures have more than doubled at OU, and sponsored research has grown at twice the national growth rate. In fiscal year 2006, OU set a new record high of $239 million in external funding for research and sponsored programs, more than $17 million above the previous year.

Particularly successful university research programs including weather, genomics, chemistry, health sciences, nanosciences, education, and applied social research, as well as technology development and transfer, will continue to grow with the development of the University Research Campus.

The buildings and spaces on the research campus support a true community of ideas reflecting the core mission and values of the university, but with a decidedly modern approach that includes academia, government and the private sector.

OU Health Sciences Center Research Campus

OUHSC Lab The University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) is the state of Oklahoma’s major health professions educational institution – training physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists and a wide range of allied health personnel.

The Mission of the OUHSC, as a comprehensive academic health center, is a) to educate students at the professional, graduate and undergraduate levels to become highly qualified health services practitioners, educators and research scientists, b) to conduct research and creative activities for the advancement of knowledge through teaching and development of skills, and c) to provide continuing education, public service and clinical care of exemplary quality.

With a budget of over $400 million, OUHSC employs more than 800 full time faculty and 2,400 staff. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in more than seventy undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Center’s seven colleges – the colleges of Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and the Graduate College. Research, training grants and contracts, and sponsored program activities at the OUHSC totaled more than $120 million in FY 2004.

OU Tulsa Research Campus

OU Tulsa Lab Our strategic goal is to nurture research specializations in Tulsa in areas where solving fundamental scholarly problems will also advance progress in solving debilitating social or economic problems.

We employ several strategies to achieve this goal including centers, coalescence of teams to work on specific problems, individual research, and interdisciplinary research teams which are the primary means by which we achieve our strategic goals.

We offer multiple degrees at the bachelor’s and master’s levels while intertwining the traditional curiosity-driven research opportunities with applied research opportunities.

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