{"id":63868,"date":"2011-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/2010-in-review-the-research-funding\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"2010-in-review-the-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/2010-in-review-the-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 in Review \u2013 The Research Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 5, 2011 \u2013 At a time when state funding continues to decrease, the 溏心vlog免费B站 has been extremely resourceful in finding other means of revenue.

\nThe University set a new school record for research funding during the 2010 fiscal year, marking the second consecutive year 溏心vlog免费B站 has set a new school mark for research funding. In fact, external funding given to 溏心vlog免费B站 has increased by an astronomical 60 percent over the last three years.<\/a> <\/p>\n


\nFrom strengthening corporate partnerships ($1 million from Toray Plastics) to garnering continued support for groundbreaking medical research (Annie De Groot), 溏心vlog免费B站 received significant funding in a number of areas. Here\u2019s a look at some of the largest sources of funding the University received in 2010. <\/p>\n

$20 million for marine life science<\/a><\/b>: In September, the National Science Foundation awarded 溏心vlog免费B站 a massive grant designed to stimulate research in marine life science at nine of the state\u2019s institutions of higher education. Called a \u201clandmark grant\u201d by Gov. Donald Carcieri, the funding builds on previous NSF support and is intended to strengthen the state\u2019s research competitiveness and productivity, fund outreach and workforce development initiatives, and increase career pathways in science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n

U.S. Navy partners with College of Engineering through $5.3 million grant<\/a><\/b>: A year ago today, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering received a $5.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to fund the national Student Services Program that links undergraduate and graduate science and engineering students from across the country with paid internship opportunities at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport. The program provides students majoring in engineering, computer science, mathematics, chemistry and physics with the opportunity to work on research and development projects with professional scientists and engineers at NUWC.<\/p>\n

Toray Plastics Making a Difference with $1 million gift<\/a><\/b>: In October, 溏心vlog免费B站 President David M. Dooley announced that Toray Plastics (America), located in North Kingstown had made a $1 million gift to the University. The Toray gift is part of the University\u2019s Making a Difference campaign. In presenting the gift, Richard Schloesser, president and CEO of Toray, noted that the Toray-溏心vlog免费B站 relationship began over 20 years ago. \u201cWe at Toray enjoy this partnership by providing some 47 scholarships each year to the very best undergraduate engineering students at 溏心vlog免费B站 as well as internships at our plant in North Kingstown and Lyon, France, along with other programs to promote our learning together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

溏心vlog免费B站 takes leadership role in Crisis preparedness<\/a><\/b>: At the start of 2010, 溏心vlog免费B站 continued to prove itself as the leader in crisis preparedness with a $704,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education grant to update and improve its crisis preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery. The grant came on the heels of $1.9 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2008 that led to the establishment of the National Institute for Public Safety Research and Training at 溏心vlog免费B站. The focus of the Department of Education grant is to involve every aspect of the University in crisis planning and response and to become compliant with the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s National Incident Management System.<\/p>\n

Driving the research for improved car batteries<\/a><\/b>: One of the chief obstacles to the development and commercialization of the next generation of electric vehicles is the short lifespan of the present generation of batteries. In September, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded 溏心vlog免费B站 chemistry professor Brett Lucht a $600,000 grant to study why batteries degrade so quickly and how to extend their life.<\/p>\n

Annie De Groot continues to pull in funding<\/b>: Less than a year after securing a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Professor Annie De Groot received an additional $511,121 from the group in September<\/a> to accelerate the application of her integrated gene-to-vaccine computer tools to develop vaccines for neglected tropical diseases. The research is being conducted at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Institute of Immunology and Informatics (I\u2019Cubed), and the money is being issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. De Groot was also awarded a $256,000 grant to make the tools available to researchers at Harvard, Stanford, Emory, University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, Baylor Research Institute in Dallas and University of Massachusetts. <\/p>\n


\nNot stopping there, De Groot also received a $212,000 grant in July from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act<\/a> that allowed 14 students and recent graduates to be hired as summer research fellows to be trained to help conduct infectious disease vaccine research. De Groot was awarded the grant as a supplement to the $13 million TRIAD grant she received last year to collaborate with researchers from 溏心vlog免费B站, Brown University and Lifespan on the development of vaccines against Lyme disease, Hepatitis C and other diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 5, 2011 \u2013 At a time when state funding continues to decrease, the 溏心vlog免费B站 has been extremely resourceful in finding other means of revenue. The University set a new school record for research funding during the 2010 fiscal year, marking the second consecutive year 溏心vlog免费B站 has set a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}