Happy New Year from Your OER Team!

COE Accomplishments in 2016

Welcome Back! We want to congratulate the COE faculty for their accomplishments in 2016 and look forward to continued success in 2017. 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 2015 fiscal year:

• COE faculty members in all schools and centers submitted 89 proposals, requesting over $79 million in external funding. This represents a 27.9% increase in the total dollar amount of proposals as compared to the prior fiscal year. Proposals were submitted to 43 agencies.

• Research funding per faculty member totaled over $513,290, which is 14.7% higher than the previous fiscal year. Of the 189 COE faculty members eligible to submit proposals, 59 (31.2%) received external funding as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI, and 53 (28.0%) submitted a proposal.

• The total dollar amount of collaborative newly funded awards increased over nine times from the prior fiscal year, representing over $10 million in newly funded collaborations with PIs or Co-PIs outside COE.

• COE PIs and Co-PIs received funding for 54 new awards totaling over $28.8 million. These new awards included three contracts from the US DOE – IES, two contracts from the US DOE (Office of Special Education Programs), three contracts from the NSF, and one contract from the US VA. Of the total dollar amount of newly funded awards, 63% was funded by federal agencies or organizations. The COE experienced an 81.1% increase in the total dollar amount of newly funded awards, nearly doubling its newly funded award total dollar amount for the second year in a row as compared to the previous fiscal year.

• COE schools and centers have 106 currently funded projects totaling over $97 million. Of the total dollar amount of currently funded projects, 71% was funded by federal agencies or organizations. The COE experienced a 12.3% increase in the total dollar amount of currently funded projects as compared to the previous fiscal year.

View the complete FY 2015 OER Annual Report.