Jan 18, 2010Top University News

U.Va. researchers lead the state with $58.3 million in stimulus funding

by Fariss Samarrai, UVaToday

Photo by Dan Addison

University of Virginia researchers have won $58.3 million in new grants through the federal stimulus program, leading all other public universities in the commonwealth for this type of funding.

About two-thirds of that money is designated for biomedical research and comes from the National Institutes of Health, which received from Congress the biggest influx of funds to stimulate research. U.Va.‘s large, research-oriented medical center puts it at a distinct advantage within the state for winning medical and health-related grants, while its extensive nonmedical research programs also attract substantial federal support.

Since February, when Congress passed the $787 billion federal stimulus package and designated $21.5 billion for research and development, U.Va. researchers have submitted 533 proposals for an array of research projects, from medicine to nursing, astronomy to physics, engineering to education, biology and beyond.

At present, 137 of these projects have received stimulus funding from a variety of federal agencies, from NIH to the National Science Foundation, as well as the federal departments of Defense and Energy and others.

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william wetsel on January 20, 2010
OK, so what are the titles and/or subject matters of the grants that were funded?

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