Since November, University faculty and staff have won funding for a wide variety of continuing and new research projects from external sources, according to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Grants include a $292,966 grant to Anthony Roman, Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Survey Research for a study entitled "College Drinking Revisited," $100,000 to Prof. Robert Chen of the ECOS Department for a study of biological cycling of colored dissolved organic matter in coastal waters, $100,000 to GCOE Prof. Joseph Check for the Boston Writing Project, and $95,169 to Chemistry Prof. D.V.G.L.N. Rao for a study, "Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Solid Host Materials."
Approximately $9 million in grant funds have been brought to the University for this fiscal year as of mid-February. "These grants reflect the high regard that funding sources have for the research that is undertaken both within academic departments and the institutes here. Both our regular faculty and institute research fellows contribute to a campus culture that increasingly understands the centrality of research to our urban mission," says Martin Quitt, dean of graduate studies and vice provost for research.