{"id":122034,"date":"2020-07-07T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122034"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:46:58","slug":"2020-extramural-funding-tops-400m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/2020-extramural-funding-tops-400m\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"university of hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> extramural funding tops $400<abbr title=\"million\">M<\/abbr> for second straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/system-research-extramural-funding.jpg\" alt=\"researcher looking into microscope\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/system-research-extramural-funding.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/system-research-extramural-funding-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/system-research-extramural-funding-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/research\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> received $456.6 million in extramural funding in fiscal year 2020, which ended on June 30, topping $400 million for the second consecutive year. It is a 7.1 percent increase from last year\u2019s total of $426.2 million and the second highest total since 2011\u2019s $488 million. Extramural funding is external investments from governmental agencies, industry and non-profit organizations that support research and training activities conducted by university faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not only amazing work by our faculty who are developing new insights on every aspect of the world around us,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>, &ldquo;These extramural funds directly create thousands of living wage jobs with economic ripples that help the economy across the islands.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> extramural funding employs more than 10,000 people annually, which is even more critical now as the state\u02bbs number one industry, tourism, has been seriously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?s=糖心Vlog官方-DOH+Contact+Tracing+Program\">Read more <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories about the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方-DOH<\/abbr> Contact Tracing Training Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;In addition to competing with other research institutions around the country in a very tight extramural funding arena, our people also grappled with the disruptions of the pandemic at work and in their personal lives,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"university of hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Vice President for Research and Innovation <strong>Vassilis L. Syrmos<\/strong>. &ldquo;I\u2019m so grateful to our faculty, support staff and graduate students for their resolve in these unprecedented times to keep the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> research enterprise on course. The outstanding performance of our flagship <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus was especially gratifying.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa accounted for $343.1 million followed by the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System with $57.2 million, an 8 percent and 16.1 percent increase over last year, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;d like to congratulate the entire <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa research <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> for the phenomenal success in securing extramural funding throughout the year and during this extremely challenging period,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Interim Vice Chancellor for Research <strong>Velma A. Kameoka<\/strong>. &ldquo;It\u2019s inspiring to see our collaborative efforts with faculty, deans, directors and the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation focused on strategic research development and initiatives result in tremendous success at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s flagship campus, especially as we deal with the current pandemic and its effects.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the programs that attracted the attention of funders include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System\u2019s <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> P&#8211;20 Office was awarded $8 million from the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Education to fund a sub-grant program that will allow community-level early childhood programs to apply for up to $300,000 per year to implement an early literacy program.<\/li>\n<div style=\"width:300px;height:169px;float:right;margin-bottom:15px;margin-left:15px;\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_17755\"  width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  data-origwidth=\"300\" data-origheight=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ppceo7Cmo0?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"糖心Vlog官方 Cancer Center receives $6.5M for state\u2019s first cutting edge research clinic\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<li>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Cancer Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/26\/cancer-center-cutting-edge-research-clinic\/\">received $6.5 million<\/a> from the National Institutes of Health for its <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho&#699;&#333;la<\/span> project that involves the creation of the state\u2019s only Early Phase Clinical Research Center&#8212;that will provide access to clinical research for patients across multiple disciplines and expand the research capabilities of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/li>\n<li>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering received $5.9 million from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Department of Transportation for the deployment and evaluation of an innovative traffic control system to improve safety and traffic flow on Nimitz Highway and Ala Moana Boulevard.<\/li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122043\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-soest-station-aloha-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Station ALOHA site\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-soest-station-aloha-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-soest-station-aloha-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-soest-station-aloha-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Station <abbr title=\"A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment\">ALOHA<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<li>The Simons Foundation funded three separate awards totaling $5.7 million for <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology for on-going research at its open ocean time-series station, known as Station <abbr title=\"A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment\">ALOHA<\/abbr> that has produced essential ocean scientific data\u2014including ocean acidification.<\/li>\n<li>The 糖心Vlog官方ealthy Initiative under the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/13\/uh-doh-covid-19-contact-tracing-training\/\">received $2.5 million<\/a> from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Department of Health (<abbr>DOH<\/abbr>) to fund the <abbr>DOH-糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Contact Tracing Training Program in response to the <abbr>COVID-19<\/abbr> pandemic affecting the state.<\/li>\n<li>The Office of Naval Research awarded $1.9 million to the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System to research various methods to improve inspections, repair protocols and early warning systems of the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> Navy\u2019s Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility.<\/li>\n<li>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $1.4 million to the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, Office of Public Health Studies via the <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> on a joint project to address preventive measures in the state\u2019s drug overdose epidemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> received $456.6 million in extramural funding in fiscal year 2020, topping $400 million for the second consecutive year and a 7.1 percent increase from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[179,1411,1417,306,1363,449,92,945,169,9,947,1013],"class_list":["post-122034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-hawaii-p-20","tag-manoa-research","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-station-aloha","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-university-system-recognition","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122034"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124092,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122034\/revisions\/124092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}