This just in from Virginia Tech’s public information department:
“Virginia Tech’s funding for research and development in the agricultural sciences jumped nearly $8.8 million in 2006, according to the most recent figures from the National Science Foundation. This raises Virginia Tech from the No. 11 to the No. 10 ranking for agricultural research expenditures in the country.
The NSF reports that Virginia Tech expended nearly $76.8 million in agricultural research and development in 2006, up from the previous year’s figure of more than $68 million. This is an increase of 12.9 percent.
Nationally, funding for agricultural research increased 5.2 percent to nearly $2.8 billion. The top institutions for agricultural research were the University of Florida and the University of California at Davis.
Virginia Tech’s agricultural research and development program accounted for 23.9 percent of the research spending at the university in 2006. The university’s total research funding was more than $321.7 million, an increase of 10.9 percent from the previous year. According to the NSF rankings, Virginia Tech has the largest research program among colleges and universities in the commonwealth.” Read more…
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