Happy New Year from Your OER Team!

Welcome Back! We want to congratulate the COE faculty for their accomplishments in 2018 and look forward to continued success in 2019. We are constantly on the lookout for opportunities for external funding to share. Contact us—we are here to help!

Listed below are some noteworthy statistics from the 2017 fiscal year:

  • COE faculty members in all schools and centers submitted 107 proposals, requesting almost $78 million in external funding. Proposals were submitted to 66 agencies.
  • COE Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs received funding for 62 new awards totaling over $44 million. Of the total dollar amount of newly funded awards, 53% was funded by federal agencies or organizations, and 10% was funded by state agencies or organizations.
  • COE schools and centers have 136 currently funded projects totaling over $128 million. Of the total dollar amount of currently funded projects, 69% was funded by federal agencies or organizations. The COE experienced a 26% increase in the total dollar amount of currently funded projects as compared to the previous fiscal year.
  • Research funding per faculty member totaled $676,131, which is 21% higher than the previous fiscal year. Of the 190 COE faculty members eligible to submit proposals, 27 (14%) received external funding as PI or Co-PI, and 36 (19%) submitted at least one proposal.

View the complete FY 2017 OER Annual Report.