Technology Transfer Resources

Jackson State University, Office of Research Development and Support of Federal Relations
Dr. Felix A. Okojie
Vice President for Research and Federal Relations
P.O. Box 17057
6th Floor Administration Tower
1400 JR Lynch Street
Jackson, MS 39217
Phone: 601.979.2931
Fax: 601.979.3664
E-mail: felix.a.okojie@jsums.edu

The Office of Research Development and Support and Federal Relations at Jackson State University is the conduit for the university's interaction with the world. It shares with the community, the achievements of the University family and the expertise of University Scholars. It also promotes, and supports a research environment at the University by providing faculty and staff with assistance and support in indentifying and securing externally funded grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and donations.

Mississippi State University, Office of Intellectual Property & Technology Licensing
Charles Rivenburgh
Director
P.O. Box 5282
Mississippi State, MS 39862
Phone: 662.325.9263
Fax: 662.325.0667
E-mail: ctr@research.msstate.edu

The mission of the Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing is the identification, protection, marketing, and licensing of intellectual properties developed by Mississippi State University faculty, staff, and students.

University of Mississippi, Division of Technology Management
Walter G. Chambliss, Ph.D.
Director
1007 Thad Cochran Research Center
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
Phone: 662.915.7134
E-mail: techmgmt@olemiss.edu

Many sponsored programs and other academic and research projects have the potential to create marketable products, technologies, or techniques. The Division of Technology Management in concert with University of Mississippi research centers and academic departments, helps identify this potential and promote its appropriate realization in the marketplace. This division also assists faculty members in fulfilling their responsibility to cooperate with the University in patenting, licensing, and otherwise commercializing technology for which they are inventors.

University of Southern Mississippi, Office of Research and Economic Development
Dr. Cecil D. Burge, Ph.D., P.E.
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Aubrey Keith Lucas Administration Building, Room 2
118 College Drive #5116
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Phone: 601.266.5116
Fax: 601.266.5755
E-mail: cecil.burge@usm.edu

The Vice President for Research and Economic Development promotes and monitors scholarship within the university community; signs off on all externally funded projects administered by Southern Miss; assists the members of the instructional staff in their scholarly endeavors; presides over all administrative proceedings relating to research, creative activities, and scholarship; coordinates institutional planning; and collaborates with the provost in advising the university president on personnel actions involving members of the academic staff.