UAB Hits Top 25 in Federal Funds Received for Science & Engineering

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has earned a place among the nation's top 25 research universities receiving federal funding for the advancement of science and engineering, according to the National Science Foundation's recently released report Federal Science and Engineering (S&E) Support to Universities, Colleges and Nonprofit Institutions for Fiscal Year 2002. While Federal S&E obligations include six categories, more than 90 percent ($224,000-plus) of UAB's 2002 S&E funding received was granted in research and development. Overall research funding received by UAB has consistently doubled each decade and currently totals more than $433 million. Read the report