Grant money flowing to UGA

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By Lee Shearer lee.shearer@onlineathens.com Story updated at 12:32 am on 9/26/2009

Record $173.4 million to boost research

University of Georgia scientists rebounded from a long slump in the past fiscal year, pulling in a record $173.4 million in research funding, Vice President for Research David Lee said Friday.

"I'd like to think it's the beginning on an overall positive trend," Lee said at a meeting of the UGA Research Foundation, the nonprofit corporation through which most of the university's research grants get funneled.

The figure is a 26 percent increase over last year, when UGA scientists received $137.3 million in research funding from federal agencies, private foundations and other outside sources.

UGA researchers raked in $150 million from grants and other research funding sources in 2005, but research income fell off the following year and is just now recovering.

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