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Research at UO nets impressive financing.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Research at UO nets impressive financing.(Higher Education)(The $90.2 million landed by the university's faculty last year set a record)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

Researchers seeking everything from developing more powerful vitamins to better ways of teaching kindergartners to read helped the University of Oregon set another record for research funding last year.

UO faculty brought in $90.2 million in outside grants and contracts in 2003-04, boosting research funding by 16 percent over the previous year's record of $78 million. In the past three years, outside research support has grown 56 percent.

As in the past three years, research generated more revenue than the entire state appropriation for university operations, which runs about $60 million a year right now. Rich Linton, the UO's vice president for research, said that underscores how important outside funding is to the university's research mission.

"Just a few years ago,...

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