Organized Research Units

An Organized Research Units (ORU) is a university established academic unit for a single campus that provides infrastructure for interdisciplinary research complementary to the academic goals of instruction and research. The functions of an ORU are to facilitate research and research collaborations; disseminate research results through research conferences, meetings and other activities; strengthen graduate and undergraduate education by providing opportunities and access to facilities; seek extramural research funds; and conduct university and public service programs related to the ORU’s research expertise. An ORU is responsible to the Chancellor or Chancellor’s designee for administration, budget, space, personnel, and scholarship.

A Multicampus Research Unit (MRU) includes (1) all units with facilties and personnel on two or more UC campuses or locations associated with them, and (2) all units with facilities at a single location or or near one of the campuses if the participation of faculty or staff from other campuses is so extensive as to give such a unit a Universitywide character.

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Campus Guidelines for ORUs

Organized Research Units (ORUs) at Santa Cruz

• Institute of Marine Sciences
• Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

Multicampus Research Units (MRUs) at Santa Cruz

• Arts Research Institute (Institute for Research in the Arts)
• Center for Cultural Studies (UC Humanities Initiative)
• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
• Center for World History (UC World History Workshop)
• Dickens Project
• Digital Cultures Project
• Institute for Humanities Research (IHR)
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
• Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Labor and Employment Research Fund
• Network for Experimental Research on Evolution (NERE)
• Pacific Rim Research Project (PacRim)
• Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program
• Transnational and Transcolonial Studies
• UC All-Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD)
• UC Energy Institute
• UC Digit Arts Network (UC DARNet)
• UC Marine Council
• UC MEXUS (UC Institute for Mexico and the United States)
• University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory

California Institutes of Science and Innovation (CISI)

• California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research

Campus Research Units

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