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Faculty Expertise: Individual Scholars and Interdisciplinary Niches
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Office of Grant Writing & Publications
202 Jesse Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573 882-9500 phone
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Individual Scholars
The Office of Research provides a campus-wide subscription to COS, the world's largest database of first-person researcher profiles. Having your profile in the COS Expertise database allows you to promote your research to and search the vitas of other researchers at MU and around the world. The COS database overlaps a great deal with MU’s local Faculty Accomplishment System (FAS). To avoid spending faculty time rekeying information you have already entered into the FAS, the Office of Research works with DoIT personnel to autoload faculty information from FAS into COS two or three times each year. Rather than manually registering for COS or keying your data into COS, you can use the Account Manager screen in FAS to set your FAS data to load to COS automatically. For details on what is autoloaded to COS, download this file (PDF, 48K; Word, 96K)
Note, too, that through the MU subscription, COS offers a wide array of services to MU faculty, students and staff. You can find funding opportunities in all disciplines, review funding histories, save customized funding searches, receive notices of changes to particular funding opportunities through the Funding Opportunities database and the Funding Alert services offered by COS. MU grant writers are available to provide individual help and/or workshops on COS and its features.
Interdisciplinary Niches
Fundamental to MU’s strategic approach to research and education is the premise that solutions to complex issues require multidisciplinary, multi-institutional teams of excellence. Only a handful of other institutions have schools/colleges of veterinary medicine, medicine, agriculture, engineering, and human environmental sciences on a single campus. In addition, MU claims the nation’s top-ranked School of Journalism, hospitals for clinical trials, the world’s most powerful university-based nuclear research reactor, field laboratories, and an agricultural experiment station. This combination of resources offers one of the nation’s most responsive, integrative academic environments. MU boasts a number of “niche” areas of interdisciplinary expertise, some centered in the Research Division’s research centers, and others more loosely affiliated. The links below allow the user to query the COS Expertise database for MU scholars whose profiles include the listed keywords. If your profile is not included in the query results and you believe it should be, please consider adding one or more of the listed keywords to your COS profile. If your research interest area is not included below, you can contact Mary Licklider in the Office of Grant Writing and Publications to discuss adding your area to the list below.
Research Division Centers
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