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Article about NSF's rankings for research funding
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=13939


Obviously, this has a Vandy slant, but I thought it was interesting in light of SFT's push for research dollars at the expense of the endowment (plus all of the UN&WR rankings talk).  I also thought this excerpt was interesting:


The national ranking of federal R&D dollars is considered a measure of research quality because of the manner in which the funds are distributed. Other than a small percentage of money that is given directly to individual campuses by congressional “earmarks” – direct appropriations written into various pieces of legislation – federal research dollars are distributed by a peer review process designed to allocate resources on the basis of scientific merit. The process is highly competitive: About one-third of the proposals submitted nationally receive funding.

“This particular national ranking is one of the most reliable,” said John Childress, director of Vanderbilt’s Division of Sponsored Research. “NSF gathers the data on which it is based from the federal agencies that make the awards. This helps minimize the confusion and errors that can result from the often-used approach of surveying the recipients.”


Googler, can you help me to find the link to the online report from NSF?  I didn't have any success trying to locate it earlier.  Just wondering if USM or other peer institutions made the cut.



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Palindrome

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The article is probably the same one referred to in MSU's latest funding release:

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/

STARKVILLE, Miss.--Federal funding for research at Mississippi State grew by 18.4 percent in fiscal year 2002 over the previous year, compared with a 13.6 percent growth rate among all universities, the National Science Foundation has reported.

MSU had the 18th highest percentage increase in expenditures of federal research funds among the more than 600 institutions surveyed by NSF.

Federal support grew from $65.5 million for MSU projects carried out in FY 2001 to $77.5 million for research done in FY 2002. The numbers come from NSF's newly released report, “Academic Research and Development Expenditures: FY 2002.” The report is online at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/ .

Nationwide, the 13.6 percent increase in funding for academic research was the largest since 1980, although funds from industry fell by 1.2 percent for the first decline since 1964.

MSU ranked 25th in the nation in FY 2002 in Defense Department funding for research, according to another recent report, this one by the RAND Corp., a nonprofit policy analysis organization.

The publication, “Vital Assets: Federal Investment in Research and Development at the Nation's Universities and Colleges,” also lists MSU as 14th in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding and 41st in Department of Energy support in FY 2002. The report may also be read at http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1824/ .

MSU also receives research funding from NASA, NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies.

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Palindrome

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I should add that the 2002 list is the latest available (Published aug. 2004)


The NSF document is long, but the appropriate section is:


http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/pdf/tabb32.pdf


Vanderbilt #60 on the list ($208M in fiscal 2002)


MSU #83 ($159M), UM/UMMC #129($69M), USM #191 ($26M)



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Palindrome

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This will be my last post on this topic (I hope).  The numbers above were total R&D.  THe total FEDERAL R&D requested by truth are given here:


http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/pdf/tabb33.pdf


Vandy 39th ($173M), MSU 91st ($78M), UM/UMMC  113rd ($50M), USM 167th ($22M).


Given USM's recent increases in total dollars it should be moving up, but how much is federal and how much is pork or industrial, I cannot judge.



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truth4usm/AH

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Originally posted by: Palindrome
"This will be my last post on this topic (I hope).  The numbers above were total R&D.  THe total FEDERAL R&D requested by truth are given here: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/pdf/tabb33.pdf Vandy 39th ($173M), MSU 91st ($78M), UM/UMMC  113rd ($50M), USM 167th ($22M). Given USM's recent increases in total dollars it should be moving up, but how much is federal and how much is pork or industrial, I cannot judge."
Thanks so much, Pal!  That's exactly what I was looking for...

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truth4usm/AH

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Originally posted by: Palindrome
"This will be my last post on this topic (I hope).  The numbers above were total R&D.  THe total FEDERAL R&D requested by truth are given here: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf04330/pdf/tabb33.pdf Vandy 39th ($173M), MSU 91st ($78M), UM/UMMC  113rd ($50M), USM 167th ($22M). Given USM's recent increases in total dollars it should be moving up, but how much is federal and how much is pork or industrial, I cannot judge."
If USM is at $22M for FEDERAL R&D, but they have reported around $60M in total research funding (depending on if you're talking about 2002 or 2003), I think you can do the math to find out how much is non-federal (unless you use that new-fangled Mader Math, that is!).  The question then becomes:  how much of the non-federal $$ is pork (earmarks), state, or otherwise funded?  Obviously, only about 1/3 is federally-funded.  Of course, this makes a difference when you are talking about peer-reviewed research vs. money from Trent Lott, etc.

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fyi

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The Literacy Assessment "grant" in the CISE Dept. is pork barrel - a gift from Thad Cochran. That accounts for somewhere between $850,000 to a million a year.

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