OU awarded $23M in stimulus money
BY JAMES S. TYREE
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Published: November 6, 2009
NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus was awarded about $10 million in research grants from federal stimulus funds in the first quarter of this fiscal year.

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Jana Smith, communications director for OU Research on the Norman campus, said OU was awarded $23 million in stimulus money for research from July through September when figuring in the school’s Health Sciences Center.
OU this week named the 33 projects in Norman that will receive funds from the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, through the
National Science Foundation,
National Institutes of Health and the
U.S. Interior Department.
Smith said OU scientists and administrators expect to receive more federal funds for research this fiscal year, which runs through June.
But Kelvin Droegemeier, OU vice president for research in Norman, said the campus already is ahead compared to last year.
"Due in large part to stimulus funding, the total dollar amount of new grants received on the Norman campus in the first three months of fiscal year 2010 is over two-thirds of the total for all 2009,” Droegemeier stated in a news release.
Droegemeier, a professor of meteorology, also said the stimulus funds will help students and faculty members "make progress on a number of important research problems that will bring practical benefits to
Oklahoma and the nation.”
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