{"id":3137,"date":"2012-04-06T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:49:40","slug":"uw-madison-research-expenditures-rank-third-in-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"UW-Madison Research Expenditures Rank Third in Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nsf1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3138\" title=\"nsf1\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nsf1.jpg\" alt=\"nsf1\" width=\"166\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nsf1.jpg 166w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nsf1-149x150.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to rank third in the nation among research institutions, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/infbrief\/nsf12313\/\">statistics<\/a> from the National Science Foundation. The university spent $1.03 billion on research \u00a0in 2010, behind Johns Hopkins University ($2 billion) and the University of Michigan ($1.18 billion). Spending increased by about $15 million over 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Research spending was broken down into six categories &#8212; federal government, state and local government, business, non-profit organizations, institution funds, and other. Slightly more than half ($545 million) of UW-Madison&#8217;s research funds come from federal sources. The university ranked last among the top ten research institutions in terms of business research funding ($12 million).<\/p>\n<p>According to Brad Barham, chair of the PROFS Board of Directors,  research funding plays a critical role in the overall funding of  UW-Madison, but cannot replace declining state support. &#8220;Continued  success in attracting research funding requires a sustained commitment  from the state to UW-Madison and its research enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to rank third in the nation among research institutions, according to statistics from the National Science Foundation. The university spent $1.03 billion on research \u00a0in 2010, behind Johns Hopkins University ($2 billion) and the University&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3137\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uw","tag-research-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}