Cross-Cutting Foundations

University-wide

Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC)

The ARRC is now over 15 years old, having grown from a small interdisciplinary group of energetic faculty and students into the largest academic radar program in the nation. The ARRC’s mission is to enhance safety, security, environmental quality, and economic prosperity through interdisciplinary research and development of innovative radar solutions to a wide range of societal challenges. The ARRC has always focused on developing cutting-edge radar technology for scientific discovery and has now expanded into many more applications of radar and applied electromagnetics. With unwavering support from the university administration, the ARRC is quickly becoming known as the go-to place for all things radar!

ARRC Website

Director

Robert Palmer
Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships
Executive Director, Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC)

Telephone: 405-325-6319
Email: rpalmer@ou.edu

Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)

Our world is creating massive amounts of data through cellphones, sensors, videos, automation, and simulation. These data have enormous potential to transform our lives and help in solving our greatest societal challenges. The Data Institute for Societal Challenges creates innovative advances in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and real-world applications. We develop and grow convergent research teams focused on solutions for local to global challenges implementing foundational data science and data-enabled research.

DISC Website

Director

David Ebert
Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships
Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)

Telephone: 405-325-3806
Email: ebert@ou.edu

Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis (IPPRA)

The Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis team builds partnerships and conducts research by integrating public policy scholarship with the physical and engineering sciences to increase human well-being, improve our social choice infrastructure, and enhance resilience by addressing complex public policy problems and creating opportunities that span natural, technological, and social systems. We are an interdisciplinary team with decades of experience in addressing public policy challenges such as those posed by extreme weather and the changing climate, energy policy, environmental policy, the role of government intervention in pandemics and national security. The institutional culture at IPPRA is grounded in transdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. We emphasize finding new ways to bridge basic and applied research, thereby bringing fundamental knowledge to bear on urgent public problems.

IPPRA Website

Director

Hank Jenkins-Smith
Director, Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis

Telephone: 405-325-1720
Email: hjsmith@ou.edu