News Release
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November 21, 2005
Boise State Receives
Record $13.6 Million for Research and Sponsored Projects During First
Quarter of Fiscal 2006
Boise State received $13.6 million for research and sponsored projects
during the first quarter of fiscal year 2006 — a new quarterly record for
the university and a 27 percent increase over awards received during the
first quarter of 2005.
The quarterly report follows a record-breaking year for research and
sponsored projects at Boise State. During fiscal 2005, Boise State received
$24.2 million in external awards, the largest one-year total in the
university’s history.
While research funding normally slows during the last three quarters of each
fiscal year, the $13.6 million quarterly report does underscore the
continuing growth of Boise State’s research programs, said Jack Pelton,
interim vice president for research and dean of the Graduate College.
“We’re very excited about the success of Boise State faculty in procuring
awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of
Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and many other federal, state
and private agencies,” Pelton said. “These awards bring many benefits to the
region, and they also enhance the educational opportunities of students at
Boise State.”
The largest single award received during the fiscal quarter that ended Sept.
30 was $1.5 million from the EPA for a project headed by research professor
Warren Barrash, who works at the university’s Center for Geophysical
Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface. Barrash and colleagues and students
in geophysics, hydrology and geology are developing new field and modeling
methods for measuring and imaging subsurface properties, for predicting how
contaminants move through the subsurface, and for designing subsurface
clean-up systems. The research has important implications for a wide range
of clean-up efforts, including those at the Idaho National Laboratory.
In addition, Barrash is collaborating with civil engineering professor Molly
Gribb, who also received major EPA funding. Gribb’s $1.69 million grant for
“Developing and Demonstrating Multipurpose Sensors to Detect and Analyze
Contaminants” was awarded Oct. 1 — the first day of the second quarter of
fiscal year ’06 — and will be included in the second-quarter report.
Other major first-quarter awards included $798,368 from a statewide program
funded by the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research, a
$424,994 NSF award to fund a research voyage next March-April to the
equatorial Pacific Ocean to gather data on climate change, and $391,642 from
the U.S. Administration on Aging for the university’s Center for the Study
of Aging.
Boise State also received two major instrumentation grants from the National
Science Foundation — $621,000 for a thermal ionization mass spectrometer and
$691,910 for a transmission electron microscope.
Among the university’s first-quarter awards for instruction and sponsored
activities were $529,163 from the U.S. Department of Education for the High
School Equivalency Program, $630,000 from the Idaho Department of Health and
Welfare for job education training, and $550,020 from the Idaho Department
of Education for regional special education services.
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Contact: Jack Pelton, Office of Research Administration,
(208)426-5732,
jpelton@boisestate.edu, and Karen Henry, Office of Research
Administration (208) 426-1571,
khenry@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Janelle Brown, University Communications (208)
426-1790, jbrown2@boisestate.edu
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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005