Notre Dame surpasses $1 billion in research funding proposals
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The University of Notre Dame is touting new records when it comes to its research funding in the last fiscal year. The university says it submitted 1,310 proposals for external funding totaling just over $1 billion, the first time it has surpassed that mark.
Additionally, the university received a record 829 funding awards that amounted to $223 million. in total funding. That is the fourth consecutive year that Notre Dame has passed the $200 million mark.
“Proposals, awards and total dollar amounts matter,” said Jeffrey Rhoads, vice president for research at Notre Dame, “but only as an imperfect measure of our progress toward fulfilling our mission to use our research and scholarship to transform lives for the better, both here in our local community and in the growing list of locations around the world where our faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and students are having an impact.”
The majority of the funding–totaling more than $134 million–came from federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, which awarded over $46 million. The university said $23 million came from private foundations, and $20 million came from industry partners.
The remainder was awarded by other non-federal sources.
Over the last year, Notre Dame received new funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to support the on-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing. The university’s College of Science also landed a grant from the Army Research Office to conduct quantum computing research.
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic was awarded a $3 million grant from Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this year to administer a program for the defense of Mexican nationals in criminal matters in the U.S.
The university’s Mendoza College of Business also received new funding from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation will help support the undergraduate Business Honors Program.
“We deeply appreciate the support of the agencies, foundations, industry partners and others who have joined forces with our researchers to share in our vision for being a powerful means for doing good in the world,” said Rhoads.