Sponsored Research Newsletter (8/9/09)
FY2009 Funding at Rutgers: $391M: A New Record
Rutgers faculty have been awarded new grants and contracts of over $391M in
the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009. In the prior year, a total of
$327.2M in new awards were made. The largest increase was in grants from
the federal government ($268.4M vs. $211.2M in the prior year). It is worth
noting that this is not simply a case of a rising tide lifting all boats,
but rather the innovative ideas of Rutgers faculty and the hard work of
faculty and staff involved in proposal preparation. Only $3M of the
increase in FY09 can be attributed to recovery act funds.
I do expect to see significant increases in FY10 due to the recovery act.
Indeed, FY10 is starting out as a very strong year with over $40M in new
funding in July. Some recent highlights include:
- Rutgers has received two recovery act awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts (PIs Ferris Olin and Nancy Maguire).
- Ten Rutgers faculty have been notified that they will receive NSF
CAREER awards: Vitaly Podzorov, Weida Wu, Amelie Marian, Seongshik Oh, Marco
Gruteser, Prosenjit Bagchi, David Shreiber, Saurabh Jha, Jian Song, and
Myong K Jeong.
- Rutgers has been notified it will receive 5 US Department of
Education Graduate Assistance for Areas of National Need awards. Only
University of Chicago received more this year. Awards will be made to (1)
Physics and Astronomy, (2) Chemistry and Chemical Biology, (3) BioMaps
Institute for Quantitative Biology and Graduate Program in Computational
Biology and Molecular Biophysics, (4) Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
and (5) Mathematics.
- Rutgers is the only university to receive two IGERTS this year
(PIs Eric Lam and Manish Chhowalla). Only 11 were awarded nationwide.
- Rutgers will receive at least four NSF Major Research
Instrumentation awards (PIs Robert Bartynski, Daniel Bubb, Daniel Murnick,
and Piotr Piotrowiak).
- Rutgers has been awarded an NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation grant to increase the numbers of minority students pursuing
majors in science, technology, engineering and math (PI: Steve Diner).
- Rutgers has received supplements to existing awards that will give
research experiences to over 35 undergraduate students. Although the money
involved is relatively small, these research experiences can have a major
impact on a student's decision to pursue graduate education.
At NSF, fifty-five additional Rutgers proposals have been recommended for
funding totaling over $26M with funding expected by Sept 30. At NIH, many
of the decisions on recovery awards will be made by January 2010. [Top]
National Endowment for the Humanities: Upcoming Deadlines
NEH has begun posting samples of awarded proposals to assist new applicants.
See the URLs below.
