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Center for Business and Industrial Studies
The Center for Business and Industrial Studies is organized within the School of Business Administration for studying managerial problems and performing applied research. The Center operates on a notforprofit basis, helping organizations nationwide to understand factors affecting their business environments and to enhance their productivity. University faculty, supported by powerful computer systems, statistical databases, and sophisticated software, provide multidisciplinary consultation in a wide variety of business applications. Studies are undertaken in computer systems, operations management, human resources management, planning and business development, facilities location, distribution, marketing, and financial analysis. Organizations contract with the Center for studies tailored to their specific needs. A brochure outlining the Center's services can be obtained by writing the Center for Business and Industrial Studies:
School of Business Administration
University of MissouriSt. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, MO 631214499,
or by calling (314) 5165857.

Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education 
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Continuing EducationOutreach to support and enhance economic education in elementary and secondary schools. The Center provides inservice programs in economic education to area teachers. Working closely with local school districts, the Center serves to improve and evaluate present economics curriculum. The Center develops and publishes curriculum units for K-12 classrooms. Entrepreneurship education is another focus for Center activities. The Center also promotes the goals of entrepreneurship and economic education among business, professional, educational, labor, and other organizations and individuals in the St. Louis community.

Center for International Studies 
The Center for International Studies supports academic programs, seminars, and conferences designed to promote and improve research in international studies, improve the methods of teaching international studies in schools and colleges, and encourage an interest in international affairs in the University and area communities. The Center's Office of International Student Services coordinates and provides services for international students including admissions, immigration, orientation, nonacademic advising, etc. In addition, the Center administers the campus Exchange and Study Abroad programs and disseminates information on study, work, and travel abroad. The Center promotes the development of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses, assists in staffing courses within individual departments, houses the Joint Center for East Asian Studies of UMSt. Louis and Washington University, the Karakas Family Foundation Alliance for the Advancement of Hellenic Studies and the Endowed Professorships in Chinese Studies, Greek Studies and Irish Studies. It conducts seminars that address specific faculty and student needs and interests, sponsors conferences for academic and community audiences, organizes international business development programs, issues occasional papers, administers undergraduate certificate programs in Africana studies, East Asian studies, European studies, international business, international studies, and Latin American studies and the Graduate Certificate in International Studies. In addition, the Center's Community Education Office serves precollegiate educators statewide through the Missouri International Studies Resource Collection and operates a comprehensive global education program.

Center for Molecular Electronics 
Molecular electronics lies at the cutting edge of recent developments in the study and application of thinfilm materials, in the growth of semiconductor device material, in the fabrication of electronic sensors and devices, and in the development of highperformance polymers. In all of these areas, knowledge and control at the atomic or molecular level is essential for stateoftheart materials and devices. In recognition of the critical importance of research, education, and industryuniversity cooperation in these areas, the University of MissouriSt. Louis has established the Center for Molecular Electronics. The goals of the Center are both research at the forefront of the field of molecular electronics and assistance in the development of hightechnology products by St. Louis area corporations.

To encourage cooperation between university and corporate scientists and engineers, the membership of the Center includes physicists, chemists, and engineers from the following St. Louisbased institutions: University of MissouriSt. Louis, Washington University, MEMC Electronic Materials, and Monsanto Company. Through the shared expertise, equipment, and facilities, the Center will investigate the following technological areas: (a) Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy; (b) Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamondlike Carbon Films; © ElectroOptics of High Performance Polymers; (d) Nanometerscale Lithography; (e) Electro chemistry of Sensors; (f) Gallium Aluminum

Center for Neurodynamics
This Center sponsors basic research on the transmission and processing of information by the brain and the sensory nervous system. The research functions are performed largely by faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral research associates, though exceptionally talented and motivated undergraduate students also make valuable research contributions. The Center is interdisciplinary, being composed of faculty from the Departments of Biology and Physics and the School of Optometry. It maintains a program of external Associates with whom collaborative research projects are pursued. Current Associates are in Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA and Viatech Imaging, Inc. of Ivoryton, CT. The research focus underlying all projects is on the role of random processes, or "noise", and chaos in  the detection of weak environmental stimuli and the processing of information within small networks of neurons and within the brain. The Center is host to frequent scientific visitors and maintains an active program of seminars on contemporary problems in neuroscience and in the physics underlying neural processes. The Center was created by a University Research Initiative grant from the Department of Defense through the Office of Naval Research, which provides ongoing financial support for its research projects. For further information please consult the URL http://natasha.umsl.edu

Center for Science and Technology
The University of MissouriSt. Louis Center for Science and Technology was established in 1987 to serve as a resource broker between the University of MissouriSt. Louis and the St. Louis scientific community.

The Center fosters research collaboration and provides customized postbaccalaureate programs on technological advances for the almost 40,000 scientists and engineers in the St. Louis area, and for science educators, corporate managers, and for toplevel executives. The Center also promotes citizen awareness on technological trends and issues, linking University projects with organizations such as the St. Louis Science Center and the National Center of Environmental Information and Technology.

International Center for Tropical Ecology
The International Center for Tropical Ecology promotes education and research concerning the study of biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable use of tropical ecosystems. It was established to centralize the activities of faculty at UMSt. Louis and researchers at the Missouri Botanical Garden who specialize in ecology, evolution, systematics, and conservation biology. A major priority of the International Center is to provide funding for international and United States graduate students interested in tropical ecology and conservation who are enrolled in the cooperative graduate program between UMSt. Louis and the
Missouri Botanical Garden. The International Center for Tropical Ecology sponsors multidisciplinary lectures and symposia on biological, political, and cultural issues related to tropical ecology. The International Center for Tropical Ecology also provides funding and assistance to the undergraduate certificate in Conservation Biology which focuses on Missouri conservation and the graduate certificate in Tropical Biology and Conservation. These certificate programs are administered by the Department of Biology. By supporting talented international and United States graduate students and by attracting visiting scholars in ecology, evolution, systematics, and conservation biology, a major goal of this Center is to create an intellectual atmosphere that can contribute to the solutions of our global crisis concerning the destruction of tropical ecosystems.

InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
The consortium, an academic partnership between the University of Michigan Center for Political Studies and more than 350 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, is an interdisciplinary, interuniversity research and training facility for both students and faculty in the social sciences. Through various consortium archives, students and faculty have direct access to a variety of multipurpose data of a sociopolitical nature that may serve a variety of research and training needs. The Office of Computing provides dataprocessing services for consortium resources. Students and faculty are also eligible to participate in the consortium's summer training program, a series of intensive eightweek courses of interdisciplinary work for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other social scientists.

Office of Computing
Computing facilities at the University of Missouri provide access to powerful computing resources, which are available to students, faculty, and staff for educational, research, and administrative needs. Access to local facilities is provided at no cost.

Hardware on the UMSt. Louis campus, used primarily for academic computing, includes two Sun Sparc 1000 class systems, an HDS EX31, Apple Macintoshes, and a variety of Windows compatible systems. These systems are housed in computing labs and Advanced Technology Classrooms located throughout the campus. TCP/IP dialup access is provided. UMSt. Louis is part of the University of Missouri Computer Network, the Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet), and the Internet.

Advanced Technology Classrooms (ATC's) are available in the Computer Center Building.  Each room is equipped with a state of the art projection system and a computer at each student desk. Two rooms contain Apple Macintoshes, three rooms are equipped with Windows systems and the remaining room has Sun workstations. One ATC, equipped with Apple Macintoshes, is available on the South Campus.  Another ATC with Windows systems if located in SSB.

Mediaenhanced lecture halls are available in Lucas and Stadler Halls. These rooms are equipped with Windows projection systems, and Macintosh computers for the instructor.

Staff provides consultation, programming, error analysis, and operations services. Data entry services are available from an outside vendor. Noncredit short courses are taught during the fall and winter semesters on a wide variety of microcomputer and mainframe topics. Microcomputers, peripherals, and software are available for purchase at substantial discounts in the bookstore.

University Computing Services operates an IBM 3090 which supports the University's administrative applications.

The office telephone number is 5166000. Questions concerning open student labs and general information should be directed to the Help Desk at 5166034.

Office of Research Administration
The Office of Research Administration provides services to faculty, graduate students, and staff for obtaining external support for research, instruction or public service programs. Services include providing information, application materials and instruction for submitting proposals, assisting in developing project budgets, contract negotiations, and fiscal monitoring of awards. The ORA is responsible for administering grants and contracts from federal, state, and local government programs, and grants awarded by private foundations. The ORA works together with faculty committees to award and administer internal research
grants. Administrative support is provided to committees charged with monitoring University compliance with various federal and state regulations concerning research. The ORA provides online information through its home page (http://www.umsl.edu/services/ora/).

Urban Information Center
The UIC is a specialized unit of the Office of Computing. The UIC specializes in applications programming related to U.S. Census and other public data. Using the SAS software package, the UIC maintains one of the larger public data archives in the country, specializing in data from the U.S. decennial censuses. This archive is accessible via the WWW using custom interface applications developed and maintained by the Urban Information Center. For more information about UIC resources and services you can visit their home page on the WWW at http://www.umsl.edu/ services/uic. The UIC is a cost recovery unit that develops and sells data products and services. Access to their database via the web is currently free, however. As a core agency of the Missouri State Census Data Center (MSCDC), the UIC periodically offers workshops and participates in conferences where information is presented related to demographic and economic data resources, web access tools, and the status of state and federal data collection and dissemination programs.

One of the areas in which the UIC has developed special expertise is in working with geographic data and with GIS (Geographic Information System) technology. They provide services to link user address files to census geographic areas, such as census tracts and blocks, and then to the census data related to those geographic areas. They specialize in producing large (up to 36"), high quality computergenerated maps using their GIS software package. Typically, these maps involve thematic display of census data and/or of clientprovided data that has been linked and aggregated to census geographic units by the UIC.