Dean's Faculty Update
IFAS Faculty post extraordinary growth in external funding FY year to date
Date: November 24th, 2008
From: Mark R. McLellan, Dean
IFAS Faculty ----
IFAS Sponsored Programs (ISP) has now verified and released the October 2008 Award Report. Please use this link: http://isp.ifas.ufl.edu/metrics.php to access this newly posted information. In addition, you may navigate to this same location from the ISP primary web site by selecting "General Resources" and then under "Metrics," click on the link for "ISP Metric Reports."
Awards for the month of October alone totaled $13,647,647.78. Our quarterly fiscal year total now stands at $36,098,485.98. This amount is approximately one half of the entire FY 2008 total all accomplished in the first four months. We should particularly recognize Dr. Jeffrey Brecht and his collaborators for their $4,008,960 award from the US Army! Coupled with ever increasing awards from all parts of IFAS we see a significant jump compared with the same time period for last year of $10.5M which is over 40% growth on a year to date basis.
We appreciate and recognize all of the accomplishments of our IFAS faculty that have provided an impressive record of awards for this first quarter in FY 2009. These funding inputs should allow greater opportunity for scholarly outputs and program enhancements.
Congratulations to you all.
Mark R. McLellan
Dean for Research, IFAS
Director, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
