Federal Research and Grant Funds that University of Wisconsin Faculty and Staff bring to Wisconsin
As the state’s contribution to the University of Wisconsin dwindles, faculty and staff of the institution are strongly encouraged to go beyond instruction, to do work that will bring funds into the university. With a total of almost one billion dollars coming into the UW in federal and non-federal extramural support, the university could truly not function without the contributions of its faculty and staff who go beyond the required teaching to spend countless hours writing grants and doing research to bring funds into their respective departments.
Federal Research Awards Received in 2007 by selected School/College (in millions)1
- Agriculture and Life Sciences — 20.9
- Education — 6.9
- College of Engineering — 40.6
- Graduate School — 70.8
- College of Letters and Sciences — 31.2
- Medical School — 194.5
- Other — 98.2
- Total for UW — 463.1
Faculty Contributions2
- 1,187 faculty have received extramural research awards
- 53.7 percent of all current faculty members have received an award
- $233,880 is the average award total per faculty member
- $252.4 million in non-federal extramural research dollars were earned by faculty in the biological sciences
- Among Big Ten Institutions, UW ranks is ranked first in non-federally financed research and development expenditures
- 62 percent of total research expenditures for 2007 came from federal grants and contracts
1 http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/stats/nfsc2007.html
2 Numbers are for the 2006-2007 school year and were taken from the Office of Budget, Planning and Analysis, Data Digest 2007–2008. University of Wisconsin-Madison: Madison WI, March 2008.