Some notes on seed grants

As the Mizzou Advantage process has unfolded, we funded a significant number of seed grants. A second request for proposals (RFP) was issued in May for additional seed grants to total as much as $1.5 million dollars. In our discussions with faculty, staff, and others, a number of questions have arisen about just what we mean by "seed grants," and how does one prepare a proposal for such funding? The notes that follow are my thoughts on this matter

Request for proposals : Mizzou Advantage

The goal of the Mizzou Advantage is to raise MU's stature and impact by enhancing our activities in the five areas in which we have world-class research and education programs today and building networks of very high-achieving individuals and organizations. Two key elements of building the networks will be hiring approximately 30 faculty in key areas, and seeking grants that will seed substantive research, education, service, or economic development projects in the initiative areas - to build the foundation for future activities in Mizzou Advantage

Orbit Determination for a Microsatellite Rendezvous with a Non-Cooperative Target

This study investigated the minimum requirements to establish a satellite tracking system architecture for a hostile parasitic microsatellite to rendezvous with a larger, non-cooperative target satellite. Four types of tracking systems and their capabilities were reviewed with emphasis on low-technology level and/or mobile systems which could be used by technologically unsophisticated state or non-state adversaries. With the tracking system architecture selected, simulated tracking data was processed with a non- linear least squares orbit determination filter to determine and/or update the target satellite\u27s state vector

Roll-out of the "Mizzou Advantage"

Approximately three years ago, MU began an exercise to define "strategic advantages" that could place the University within higher education in an extremely strong, competitive position. The idea was to identify MU's competitive advantages that are uniquely strong and would position MU such that other major universities would be unable to compete successfully. In other words, identify the competitive advantages that would allow the University to compete with other major, internationally preeminent universities on OUR terms, not theirs

Secondary succession in an experimentally fragmented landscape: community patterns across space and time

Secondary succession reflects, at least in part, community assembly—the sequences of colonizations and extinctions. These processes in turn are expected to be sensitive to the size of the site undergoing assembly and its location relative to source pools. In this paper we describe patterns of succession over 18 years in an experimentally fragmented landscape created in eastern Kansas, USA, in 1984. The design of the experiment permits one to assess the influence of patch size and landscape position on successional dynamics. The general trajectory of succession follows that typical of succession in much of the eastern United States. In the initial years of the study, there was relatively little effect of patch size or distance to sources. Here we show that spatial effects in this system have become increasingly evident with time, as gauged both by repeated-measures ANOVA and ordination techniques. Woody plants have colonized more rapidly (per unit area) on large and nearby patches. Species richness at a local (within-quadrat) scale in general has increased, with slightly greater richness in large than in small patches later in the study. Temporal stability in community composition has generally been greater in large patches. Spatial heterogeneity in community composition has increased during succession, but with different patterns in large and small patches. This long-term experiment suggests that landscape structure influences many aspects of community structure and dynamics during succession, and that such effects become more pronounced with the passage of time

Development, Disease, and Regeneration of Tissues in the Dental-Craniofacial Complex

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Amelogenin: A Potential Regulator of Cementum‐Associated Genes

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142042/1/jper1423.pd