Rice on pace to double research spending by 2027
(WorldNews Environment)

Rice University faculty have upped their game when competing for large, multi-institutional sponsored research awards over the past two years, and that trend has the university on pace to meet an ambitious goal of doubling research funding to about $250 million by 2027. Yousif Shamoo Rice research funding rose 16% in fiscal year 2019 to a record $156 million, and the trend continues in fiscal year 2020 thanks to the university`s success in attracting more `center-level` grants. `We asked our faculty to think big, and they`ve responded in a big way,` said Yousif Shamoo, vice president for research. The strategic goal of doubling research funding was laid out in 2017`s Vision for the Second...