University of Missouri
ER-18: Sustainability Research Incentives

Undergraduate Research Teams The Undergraduate Research Team program seeks to create broadly interdisciplinary learning communities — comprised of faculty mentors and undergraduate students — working together on a problem-based research project. Solving big societal problems will require the expertise of more than one discipline. The program inspires “out of the box” collaborations among typically unrelated fields of study and offers students transferable problem-solving skills, content knowledge, a peer learning experience and a mentoring relationship between faculty and students. Food for the Future •The Life of the Garden: Exploring the Maturation of Gardens from Literary & Botanical Perspectives •Cross-Disciplinary Talk and Collaboration: From Scientific Discovery to Biotech Product •Food for Thought: Food, Body Image & the Media •Burgundy Truffle Cultivation in Missouri: A Food-based Catalyst for Transformational Development of Rural Economies Media of the Future •Adventures of a Hack •Studying Social Computing for Healthcare Organizations •Cross-Disciplinary Talk and Collaboration: From Scientific Discovery to Biotech Product •Food for Thought: Food, Body Image & the Media One Health/One Medicine •Studying Social Computing for Healthcare Organizations •Laryngeal Dynamics in Expressing Vocal Emotions •Characterization of Dysphagia in a Potential Canine Model of ALS Sustainable Energy •Linkages between Rainfall, Runoff and Sediment Transport •The Life of the Garden: Exploring the Maturation of Gardens from Literary & Botanical Perspectives •Stormwater Best Management Practices Monitoring --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mizzou Advantage acts as a facilitator to faculty research and provides grants and aid in order to to identify competitive assets that set MU apart from other universities. These assets underlie five dynamic initiatives that collectively are called the Mizzou Advantage. -Sustainable Energy -Food for the Future -Media of the Future -One Health, One Medicine: The Convergence of Human and Animal Health -Understanding and Managing Disruptive and Transformational Technologies -Educational Programs The purpose of Mizzou Advantage is to increase MU’s visibility and stature in higher education and to strengthen these areas: -Quality of faculty and students -Instructional programs -Value of an MU degree -Success of grant proposals -Fundraising results -U.S. and Missouri economies -Venture-capital investment A network of collaborators — faculty members, centers, departments, corporate partners and other universities — will drive activities related to each competitive asset. MU has a $6 million annual financial plan to increase the impact of those collaborators, whose efforts will result in more grants and opportunities to recruit the most prominent scholars and scientists. Not only will Mizzou Advantage contribute to MU’s status in higher education, it will create jobs and improve the quality of life for Missourians.

Also see: http://www.missouri.edu/mizzou-advantage/sustainable-energy/index.php