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The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy Through Innovation
August 24, 2010
With over $787 billion in funding, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is one of the single boldest and largest investments in the U.S. economy in the nation’s history. The Recovery Act’s design was three-fold: to rescue a rapidly deteriorating economy; put the country on a path to recovery by putting Americans back to work quickly; and reinvest in the country’s long-term economic future, building a foundation for a new, more robust, and competitive American economy.
Within the reinvestment spending of the Recovery Act, over $100 billion is invested in innovative and transformative programs. This report explores four areas within those innovative programs in which game-changing breakthroughs are being sought, and in some cases, new American industries are being born.
The Ohio State University: Leading Innovation and Discovery with World-Class Research Programs
May 11, 2010
The nation’s research universities are America’s strongest asset—achieving breakthrough discoveries that address our most critical problems, educating the next generation of our citizens, and serving as a powerful force to help drive our economic recovery and fuel our competitiveness on the global stage. America’s investments in research over the past century have yielded countless benefits for its citizens, producing new cures for diseases, revolutionizing information technology, and transforming the way we live on almost every level.
The Ohio State University stands out among our country’s top research universities in the breadth, scope, and excellence of its research programs. Ohio State faculty are leading science and innovation with world class research in global climate change, materials, infectious disease, cancer, electromagnetics, agbioproducts, and biomedical imaging. Our funded research programs contribute significantly to the university’s more than $4 billion annual economic impact. In 2009, federal research and development funding reached almost $340 million, and our total research expenditures exceeded $716 million.
University of California: Federal Funding at Work
April 16, 2010
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide more than $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds to the University of California. UC is using this critical support to retain or create thousands of jobs, boost financial aid for students, invest in and sustain groundbreaking research, build and upgrade facilities and train a new generation of workers, scientists and educators.
This federal investment is having real results. The state and nation are gaining from the knowledge our university graduates are bringing to industry and their communities. New businesses and jobs are being started through the research and innovation in our labs, and researchers continue to make lifesaving discoveries across California.
From Recovery to Discovery: ARRA Funding and Medical Research
February 22, 2010
A new report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) details how the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals are advancing science and stimulating economic growth one year after passage of an additional $10 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). To learn more about ARRA funds at work at the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals, visit www.aamc.org/recovery.
University Leaders Comment on the Benefits of the Recovery Act
February 17, 2010
On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, university leaders from across the country provide comments on the impact that Recovery Act funding for scientific research and development, the purchase of scientific equipment, and science-related construction projects have had on their campuses and communities.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act One Year Later
February 17, 2010
Examples of Recovery Act-Funded Research Advancing Science, Aiding the Economy, and Contributing to America’s Prosperous Future
February 16, 2010
Examples of Researchers and their ARRA-Funded Projects
November 17, 2009
NIH Recovery Investment Reports
The NIH has released a collection of reports highlighting investments in biomedical research topics all made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Preliminary NIH ARRA FY2009 Funding As of October 26, 2009
ARRA Funded Research at Ohio State University October 2009
Examples of ARRA Funded Research September 2009
Examples of ARRA Funded Research July 2009
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