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OAKLAND UNIVERSITY » Fall 2013<br />
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Volume 6, No.1<br />
On the cover: Fruit bats like the one on our<br />
cover were one of 19 bat species studied by<br />
OU assistant professor Jennifer Vonk in a<br />
study supported by the Organization for Bat<br />
Conservation on the campus of Cranbrook<br />
Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,<br />
the largest grassroots bat conservation<br />
organization in North America. Read more<br />
about her research on page 16.<br />
Message from James Lentini<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
Standing in the simulation labs at Oakland University’s School of Nursing, it is<br />
difficult to distinguish the space from an actual health care facility. The rooms<br />
look like hospital rooms, the equipment you see could be found in a hospital or<br />
clinical setting, the patients are true-to-life simulated models — or actual<br />
people. As our nursing students use the numerous simulation techniques to<br <a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=1"> OAKLAND UNIVERSITY » Fall 2013 Volume 6</a>
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<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=5"> TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Connected to discovery </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=6"> Connected to discovery CURL illustrates O</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=7"> As a member of Britain’s Arts and Humanities Rese</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=8"> The GRASP TEAM The faculty at the core of GRASP r</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=9"> Team works for understanding G</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=10"> The good, the bad, the stem cell Expl</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=11"> Gerard Madlambayan is internationally recognized </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=12"> Kenneth P. Mitton, who joined OU’s faculty in 200</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=13"> Eye-catching results OU s</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=14"> Testing the waters Simulated cli</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=15"> Cheryl Riley-Doucet Karen Dunn </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=16"> Mary Dereski, Ph.D., joined the Oakland Universit</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=17"> Transition time Extending </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=18"> Batty behavior An OU professor seek</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=19"> Jennifer Vonk received her Ph.D. from York Univer</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=20"> Mark Simon is a professor of strategic management</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=21"> Measuring entrepreneurial success Research lends</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=22"> Energized Clean Energy Research Center is nationa</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=23"> Jim Leidel has been involved in the energy and en</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=24"> The WISE team (from left to right) includes Brad </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=25"> Wise intentions Even the most</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=26"> OU researchers acknowledged with distinguished aw</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=27"> Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy Professor of engineering </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=28"> Research centers and institutes The Automotive T</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=29"> reading, writing, listening and speaking. Courses</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=30"> Student Research Award Recipients, 2012-13 Stud</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=31"> Characterizing the Facets of Multiple All-differe</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=32"> Student research award recipients continued </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=33"> 2013 postdoctoral scholars at Oakland University </a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=34"> By the numbers Not for pro</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=35"> Office of Research Administration agency list — FY</a>
<a title="Research Magazine - Fall 2013 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68b912e6?page=36"> Research Administration </a>