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Mizzou has been delivering the benefits of research for
decades. For example, MU scientists improved the treatment
and prevention of diabetes and helped develop home dialysis,
performed the world’s first pediatric angioplasty
to correct heart defects in babies, helped save the nation’s
wheat crop in the 1950s and conducted landmark studies
in crop rotation that are the basis for today’s
sustainable agriculture. Photo by MU Publications and
Alumni Communication
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Record
Highs in Research
By Ann Stratton
MU attracts 72
percent of all federal research dollars that flow to Missouri’s
public universities
For the past few years, the University of
Missouri-Columbia has been setting records for having the fastest
growing research expenditures in the country. There are no signs
of slowing down as MU increased research spending by 17 percent
this past year.
“In 2003, MU spent more than
$166 million toward research, compared to the previous year
when we spent about $141.7 million,” said James Coleman,
vice provost for research and a professor of biology. “Few
universities in the nation are growing at this rate, and our
researchers are continuing to compete successfully against the
nation’s best researchers for highly competitive grants.”
Since the beginning of the year, external
sources, like the federal government, the state of Missouri,
non-profit organizations and private companies, contributed
$166 million to the total sum of money spent on conducting research
at the University.
For the past six years, MU has experienced
substantial growth as a research institution and has attracted
a major increase in outside grants and contracts. For instance,
in the past four months MU has received these competitive, peer-reviewed
research awards:
- $10 million for a Cancer Imaging Center
from NIH
- $8.5 million for a Regional Biosafety
Level 3 Research Lab that is part of a Regional Bioterrorism
Center from NIH
- $3.4 million for cardiovascular research
from NIH
- $1.3 million for nanoscience research
from NSF
MU is one of the nation’s
top 15 universities in annual funding in life sciences research
from the NSF, ahead of Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Michigan, Colorado
and Washington University in St. Louis. And MU is No. 5 in the
nation in plant genomics funding from the NSF, helping make
Missouri No. 2 in the nation.
“We are ecstatic to see the outside
support and recognition that MU is receiving as a research institution,”
said MU Provost Brady Deaton. “We have first-class research
faculty on campus and they are continuing to do outstanding
work. The knowledge they acquire in the laboratory not only
expands to the classroom but also to the state and the world,
providing solutions to both immediate and long-term problems.”
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