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Housing Research in a State-of-the-Art Setting Competitively Supporting Scientific Discovery Michigan State University is one of the top research universities in the world. Research and scholarship serve as MSU’s foundation for exceptional education, outreach to the public, interactions with business and communities, and patient care. The culture at MSU has long emphasized interdisciplinary research. In the spirit of increasing research opportunities, the College is fully vested in supporting junior faculty researchers on the road to a tenure position. While nationally funded, our nurse scientists are supported throughout their careers with a dedicated research team. And, PhD students move in scholarly directions conducting cutting edge research in collaboration with nationally acclaimed nurse research mentors. Competitively contributing to the science of nursing, the College is 12th in the nation in receipt of NIH grant funding for FY2013. The NRC is located in the new Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research, providing a nucleus for research activity. To facilitate the pursuit of knowledge, facilities include a research collaboratory, a PhD collaboratory, research conference rooms, dedicated interview rooms, research faculty offices, and 60 modular pod workstations for project teams. The latest technology provides for state-of-the-art communications and makes specialty software available to researchers. NURSING RESEARCH CENTER A comprehensive array of services facilitates faculty and PhD student research at all stages of development from inception to proposal, from funding opportunities to grant award, from budget allocation to publication of outcomes. The Nursing Research Center (NRC) exists to achieve one goal, to help researchers live a life of scholarly inquiry that contributes to evidence-based nursing practice. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING • NURSING.MSU.EDU The Institute of Medicine calls for 90% of clinical decisions to be supported by accurate clinical information, best evidence, and informed personal preference by 2020. Our research teams generate new science as a basis for effective practice and validate the effectiveness of nursing interventions on patient outcomes in the community. 29