Research Funding Facts

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Extramural research awards ($ in millions, 2009-10)
Federal	119.7
Nonfederal	18.5
Total awards	138.2

Federal research awards by agency
Energy	45.9
Health and Human Services	41,7
USDA	12.4
NSF	11.8
AID	3.7
NASA	1.8
Interior	1.3
Defense	0.5
Homeland Security	0.3
EPA	0.3
Other	0.2

More Facts:

• CALS scientists win more grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health and the National Research Institute than any other agricultural college faculty.

• On average, a CALS professor earns more than $530,000 in extramural research grants each year.

• CALS discoveries generate more than 70 percent of the patent license income collected by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.