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UVA No. 1 school for stimulus funds in state

By MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
Published: December 11, 2009

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The University of Virginia has won $58.3 million in new grants funded by the $787 billion federal stimulus package, the most of any public university in Virginia.

Since February, UVa researchers have submitted 533 proposals for projects to be financed by the stimulus package’s $21.5 billion set aside for research and development. Of these, 137 projects at UVa have won funding.

“The exceptional success of UVa researchers in this intensely competitive process is a reflection of the world-class talent at this university and UVa’s ability to produce innovation that benefits the state and nation,” Thomas Skalak, UVa’s vice president for research, said in a news release.

The funding has come from various government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation.

Roughly two-thirds of the awards have gone to biomedical research projects at UVa.

Virginia Commonwealth University, by comparison, has won $28.3 million in stimulus funding. Virginia Tech has been awarded $26 million, while George Mason University has received $10.9 million, James Madison University has won $7.8 million and the College of William & Mary has won $6.2 million.

UVa’s stimulus research awards are separate from the $10.7 million the university received earlier this year to offset state budget cuts and hold down tuition increases.

Overall, Virginia research institutions have been awarded roughly $180.5 million in stimulus grants.

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