AMERICA'S LEADING PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY

Promoting business opportunities for development of mutually beneficial alliances with government, business, and philanthropy for the purpose of enhancing education, bolstering student learning and employment opportunities, and advancing regional and state economic prosperity; providing opportunities for development of collaborations within a university to enhance education, bolster student learning and employment opportunities, and advance regional and state economic prosperity, namely, promoting collaboration within the scientific, research, and provider communities to achieve advances in all fields of education and economics; organizing, coordinating, administering, conducting, and facilitating public and private support programs and activities to promote research and university-level education, namely, administration and management of research grants; promoting collaboration within the research, business, government, and philanthropic communities to achieve advances in teaching, community service, and research; encouraging university education and community growth and economic development by coordinating and administering programs in the fields of research, development, and commercialization, namely, promoting technical and scientific investigation, research, and experimentation in the fields of scientific and academic discovery through support of educational institutions and scientific organizations; business research and business development services