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University of California, Berkeley is one of the world’s leading universities in research, teaching, and public service, with an enrollment of 22,880 undergraduates, 1,131 first professional students, and 8,803 graduate students. The campus employs 1,965 faculty in more than 130 academic departments and programs, and more than 65 interdisciplinary research units contribute to this dynamic and vital research and teaching environment.
Each year UC Berkeley receives substantial contract and grant support for research, education, and public service projects from federal and state agencies, foreign governments, foundations and other nonprofit organizations, industry sponsors, and other private sources. In fiscal year 2005, the campus received 1,507 new awards and over $491 million in funding.
Award information is captured in two ways: by project periods (the total amount of the award) and by budget periods (current authority to spend). Budget period funding data is captured for all years of an award, which includes future years. In fiscal year 2005, the campus received $542.7 million in budget period funding, representing authority to spend at a level over project period funding of $491.2 million.
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Largest Awards Received, 2004-2005
- Alex Zettl, Berkeley Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Institute
Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS)
National Science Foundation, $11,910,000
- Daniel Portnoy, Molecular and Cell Biology
Intracellular Pathogens and Innate Immunity
NIAID, $8,929,545
- Jay Keasling, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
New Technology for Global Health: Affordable Accessible Malaria Treatment
Institute for OneWorld Health, $8,011,009
- Prentice Starkey, Institute of Human Development
Scaling Up the Implementation of a Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Curriculum in Public Preschool Programs
U.S. Department of Education, $6,000,000
- Arthur Reingold, School of Public Health
Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness
Centers for Disease Control, $5,630,395
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