WisBusiness.com
UW-Madison has leapfrogged the combined University of Michigan campuses and now ranks second in the country for research spending by a university.
According to a study by the National Science Foundation, UW-Madison now conducts more than $900 million worth of research annually. During fiscal 2006, some $832 million of that figure was spent spent on science and engineering efforts.
In addition, the new report identifies UW-Madison as the leading U.S. university in terms of research outside of science and engineering, with $73 million spent on education, buisness and humanities studies.
In that measure, Wisconsin outpaced Harvard, Purdue, and the University of Texas to claim the top spot on the NSF list.
Johns Hopkins, with science and engineering research expenditures of $1.5 billion, remains at the top of the list, although that figure includes $709 million for work at the Applied Physics Laboratory, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins that focuses on defense and military related research, much of it classified.
See release at http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=110036
