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On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the economic stimulus, into law. Under this act NIH, NSF and other science agencies will receive substantial funding in support of ARRA’s mission to have a short-term impact on job creation and a long-term effect on investments of value and transparency.

The National Institutes of Health will receive $10.4 billion to be spent by September 30, 2010. Most of the funding will be allocated to three buckets: 1) The R01 and related mechanism that will fund a portion of the 14,000 applications that were approved for funding in FY 2008 but unfunded, 2) administrative as well as competitive supplements to existing grants 3) and two year NIH Challenge grants in areas of NIH Institute priorities. There will also be opportunities for equipment and construction projects.

NSF received $3 billion and will emphasize funding for highly ranked but unfunded applications, making their timeframe for awards similar to that of the NIH. Other science agencies have not yet released plans for using the funds they have received.

Wayne State University ARRA Grants Awarded to Date

Wayne State University faculty have received over $25 million in research grants under the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program.

The 63 grants include 57 totaling more than $24.5 million from the National Institutes of Health – the second largest number of NIH grants in the state for this program. The university also has received five grants totaling over $2.2 million from the National Science Foundation and a $5 million grant from the Department of Energy for an electric vehicle engineering education and workforce training program.