Research big deal at UW-Madison; maintains No. 6 national ranking
Excerpted from Wisconsin State Journal
By Bill Novak
Research has been a big deal at UW-Madison for decades, and the university continues to rank among the top schools in funding for research and development.
The National Science Foundation released its annual Higher Education Research and Development report, and UW-Madison came in at No. 6 for 2016, the same ranking the university had the year before.
Almost $1.16 billion was spent on research in all fields at UW-Madison in 2016, with about half of the money coming from federal coffers.
“The increase in expenditures and maintaining our ranking is good news for UW-Madison, showing the needle is moving in the right direction after a four-year decline in research expenditures,” said Marsha Mailick, UW-Madison vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
Besides federal money, UW-Madison gets research grants from state and local governments, industry, non-profits, and foundations, especially the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and the UW Foundation.
Research from UW-Madison has been responsible for creating over 360 startup companies in Wisconsin, the university said.
“Our faculty are the reason why UW-Madison is a top-tier university,” Mailick said. “They are pioneers – researchers and scholars who change the world with their accomplishments.
