The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship
UM's Office of Research and Creative Scholarship supports research-driven student success. Through advocacy and advancement of basic and applied research, creative work, and academic scholarship, ORCS fosters an environment where research, scholarly activities, entrepreneurship, and economic development thrive and advance the educational and research mission of the University.
Our Office as a whole
ORCS has many offices that work together all across campus. Use the interactive chart below to see the direct relationships of all of the ORCS offices.
Interactive Org Chart
- Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship
- Tech Transfer
- Budget and Operations
- Federal Relations
- Office of Sponsored Programs
- Pre-Award
- Post-Award
- Awards
- Research Development
- Research Compliance
- Environmental Health
- Laboratory Animal Resources (LAR)
- IACUC (Animals)
- IRB (Humans)
- IBC (Biosafety)
- Export Control
- Radiation Safety
- RCR (Responsible Conduct of Research)
- Core Facilities
- Biospectrosopy Core Research Facility
- Environmental Control for Organismal Research Laboratories (ECOR)
- EMtrix Electron Microscope Facility
- Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory
- Fluorescence Cytometry Core
- Inhalation and Pulmonary Physiology Core
- Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Facility
- Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
- Molecular Histology and Fluorescence Imaging Core
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
- Analytical Ultracentrifugation Core Facility
- Small Molecule X-Ray Diffraction
- Prototyping and Characterization Core Facility
- Data Modeling Core
- Intervention Support Core
- Accelerate Montana
- Montana Technology Enterprise Center (MonTEC)
- Blackstone Launchpad
- Procurement Technical Assistance Center (APEX)
- Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer
- Montana World Trade Center (MWTC)
- Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
- Broader Impacts Group (BIG)
- Autonomous Aerial Systems Office (ASSO)
- spectrUM
- Education Evaluation Services
- Office of Undergraduate Research
- Spatial Analysis Lab
- UM Zoological Museum
- We Are Montana in the Classroom
- Research Centers and Institutes
- Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER)
- Center for Biomolecular and Structural Dynamics (CBSD)
- Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS)
- BIOTECH
- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (MCWRU)
- Montana Institute on Ecosystems (IoE)
- Center for Integrated Research on the Environment (CIRE)
- Center for Public Health Research (CPHR)
- O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West
- Center for Translational Medicine (CTM)
- Rural Institute
- American Indian Governance and Policy Institute
- Office of Health Research Partnerships
- Graduate School