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Columns::February 17, 2003
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Campus News
Mid-year external grants and contracts up by 17.2 percent
By Judy Purdy
jbp@ovpr.uga.edu
Awards for external contracts and grants at UGA are ahead of last year by 17.2 percent, according to the fiscal year 2003 mid-year cumulative activity report released in January by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
“At the close of December, which is the midpoint of our fiscal year, cumulative funding for external contracts and grants was up $19 million over last year at this time,” says associate vice president for research Regina Smith, who directs the UGA office of sponsored research.
At midpoint this year, UGA award totals were $129,986,690, compared with $110,913,583 and $97,811,785, respectively, for the second quarters of 2002 and 2001. External grants support UGA research, teaching and outreach. Awards for research are up18.4 percent over last year. External contracts and grants come from federal, state, private and corporate sources.
“The university continues to show steady growth in research funding,” says Smith, who cites statistics that chart an increase for each of the past five years.
Among the reasons Smith cites for this year’s increase are a rise in the number of proposals faculty submit to granting agencies and a greater success rate among those proposals. “The faculty already have submitted 270 more proposals this year than last year at this time,” she says, “and a higher percentage of their proposals are being funded.’
Proposals compete on a national level for limited research funding and only those that receive the highest marks by review panels are funded.”
A handful of multimillion dollar grants also have contributed to the growth in extramural research funding. Among them is a $10 million construction grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for the new Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. UGA officials held groundbreaking ceremonies for the $40 million research center on Jan. 22. The new facility, expected to be ready in two years, will enhance the university’s ability to conduct biomedical research and will help consolidate research efforts aimed at developing health-promoting strategies.
The university received a grant of $3.5 million from the Goizueta Foundation to help Georgia schools better educate Hispanic children. Georgia’s Hispanic population is the third-fastest growing nationally. This year, the university also received $1.7 million of a multiyear, multimillion dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics.
“Success in competing for contracts and grants indicates the strength of UGA’s faculty,” Smith said. “The faculty use this extramural funding to conduct a wide array of research, outreach and instructional programs that benefit the state and society at large.”
For highlights of the fiscal year 2003 mid-year cumulative activity report: www.ovpr.uga.edu/sponprog/car/index.html
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