UConn Sets New Benchmark For Research Funding

STORRS, CT — The University of Connecticut hit a record annual high level in external research funding in the most recent full fiscal year, with its faculty attracting more than $375 million in new awards in 2020-21 despite competing for the grants against the backdrop of the global pandemic.

Officials unveiled the statistics Wednesday.

The university secured a then-record amount of $285.8 million in research funding in the 2019-20 fiscal year, but had never exceeded $300 million until now.

In the 2020-21 fiscal year that ended June 30, the research enterprise at UConn Storrs, UConn Health, and the regional campuses surged to $375.6 million in sponsored program awards, including its largest-ever award in the form of a $40 million research grant to the School of Medicine.

Even without that grant, the University would have easily broken the FY20 record due to the efforts of the researchers across the campuses whose 746 proposals were selected for one-time or multi-year funding from external sponsors like federal agencies, state government, and industry.

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