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 2006, the campus received 1,533 new awards and over $469 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 2006, the campus received $515.4 million in budget period funding, representing authority to spend at a level over project period funding of $469.1 million.

Five Largest Awards Received, 2005-2006

• Martyn Smith, School of Public Health
  Toxic Substances in the Environment
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, $15,870,149
  
• Jennifer Doudna, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
  Program in Virus Translational Control
  National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $6,786,284
  
• Robert Tijan, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
  Structure and Function of Transcription Complexes
  National Cancer Institute, $5,881,724
  
• Kenneth Polse, School of Optometry
  Berkeley Clinical Scientist Development Program
  National Eye Institute, $4,509,444
  
• Elizabeth Deakin, City and Regional Planning
  University of California Transportation Center
  Caltrans, $4,000,000

$308.3
86.4
77.3
23.8
16.2
3.3
$515.4

$280.1
85.9
62.3
21.6
15.7
3.5
$491.2

(60%)
(18%)
(13%)
(5%)
(3%)
(1%)
(100%)

$107.8
89.3
35.8
17.3
22.1
17.3
8.0
8.9
1.6
$308.3

$108.7
76.6
23.9
20.8
18.8
14.1
7.9
7.9
1.5
$280.1

(39%)
(27%)
(9%)
(7%)
(7%)
(5%)
(3%)
(3%)
(1%)
(100%)

Total Award Dollars by Sponsor Type, 2002-2006

Award Dollars by Discipline, 2005-2006  
(Project Period Funding)

Discipline, Percent of Total
Engineering/Computer Sciences (21%)
Physical Sciences (19%)
Biological Sciences (15%)
Social Sciences/Humanities (13%)
Health Sciences (11%)
Education (9%)
Natural Resources (6%)
Business/Law/Professional (3%)
Libraries/Museums (2%)
Others (1%)
Grand Total (100%)

Dollars
$96.5
87.2
69.3
61.8
52.2
43.0
29.0
14.6
8.0
7.5
$469.1

Award Dollars by Activity Type 2005-2006
(Project Period Funding)

Activity Type, Percent of Total
Basic research (64%)
Applied research (13%)
Instruction (9%)
Other (8%)
Training (4%)
Services (3%)
Grand Total (100%)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award
Timothy Clark, Art History

Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Geoffrey Marcy, Astronomy (shared) (2005)
Saul Perlmutter, Physics (shared) (2006)

International Balzan Foundation Balzan Prize
Peter Hall, City and Regional Planning

Enrico Fermi Award
Arthur Rosenfeld, Physics

Welch Foundation Award in Chemistry
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Molecular and Cell Biology

National Science Board Vannevar Bush Award
Charles Townes, Physics

National Academy of Sciences
Jillian F. Banfield, Earth and Planetary Science; Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Robert P. Lin, Physics
Michael Marletta, Chemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology
David Patterson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Mathematics

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Founders Award
Robert Birgeneau, Physics

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Michael Botchan, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
David Eisenbud, Mathematics
Stuart Jay Freedman, Physics
Tulio Halperin-Donghi, History
Robert P. Lin, Physics
A. Richard Newton, EECS
George Oster, Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Molecular and Cell Biology
David Patterson, EECS
David Romer, Economics
Richard Taruskin, Music
Pravin Varaiya, EECS