Research Environment
Strategic Themes
The strategic plan builds on the University’s designation by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education as a Very High Research Activity doctoral university, the nation’s highest level of research activity for institutions that grant doctoral degrees.
Major Aims
Major aims, or themes, of the strategic plan include
- providing world-class core analytical facilities to support the research enterprise
- significantly enhancing and expanding opportunities for undergraduate research
- nominating faculty for more external honorific awards
- growing the Alabama research institutes and their impact
- establishing a new state-of-the-art research and creative conference program
- launching an intellectual property gap fund
- establishing an Office for Economic and Business Engagement to develop robust funded partnerships and retaining more opportunities to retain alumni in the state
- doubling research awards to the University within five years
Annual Report
Each year, ORED publishes a report detailing its progress on its strategic plan.
