The work of the FAMU stimulus-recovery committee led by Provost Cynthia Hughes-Harris and Vice President for Research Larry Robinson is paying off. Already, the university has netted $257,306 in research dollars offered by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The stimulus-recovery committee helped faculty members identify grant opportunities and prepare competitive applications. As part of this process, it launched a page on FAMU.edu that provided tips for developing proposals and listed grant programs.
FAMU received the sixth largest amount of research stimulus money in the State University System of Florida. UF led with $19.1M. FSU, UCF, USF, and FAU followed.
FIU and FGCU came in behind FAMU with $190,961 and $84,449 respectively. New College, UWF, and UNF did not receive any ARRA research grants - although the later two universities say they plan to submit applications.
The good news on FAMU’s stimulus research dollars comes after the university landed a $700,000 HBCU historic preservation grant to help renovate Sampson Hall.
Somehow it seems to me that FAMU got short changed in this deal. It would be interesting to see the percentage of votes that Obama received from UF & FSU precints versus FAMU's.
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