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Research > Federally Funded Research Highlights
Research at the University of California’s
campus and national laboratories receives substantial support from
a number of federal agencies. The following publications, issued
quarterly in an agency-by-agency rotation, highlight some of the
discoveries made possible by this funding.
National Institutes of Health at UC
Spring
2002: UC's NIH Research Tops $1 Billion; Synthetic Cartilage; Autism;
Retraining the Spine; Marine Pharmaceuticals
Winter
2000: NIH Funding Facts; Malaria: The Forgotten Killer; Preventing
Premature Births; Guam: The Puzzle of Parkinson's
Autumn
1998: NIH Funding Facts; Defanging Staphylococcus Aureus; Alzheimer's
Disease in an Aging Population; Cancer and Nutrition: UCSD's WHEL
Study
National Science Foundation at UC
Spring 2004: UC earns record levels of NSF research support; theobroma; research internships; adaptive optics; Scripps; traveling math
Summer
2001: NSF Funding Facts; Exploring the World at Nanoscale; Dark
Matter; Mapping the Corona Project
Summer
2000: NSF Funding Facts; Milagro: The Fingerprints of Gamma Ray
Bursts; The Myth of Polynesian Paradise; Does Signing Your Language
Rewire Your Synapses?
National Endowment for the Humanities at UC
Spring
2001: NEH Funding Facts; California's Hidden Local History; Humanities
Research Institute; Chicano Posters
Spring
1998: NEH Funding at UC; The Mark Twain Papers and Project; California
Newspaper Project; Fowler Museum of Cultural History
NASA at UC
Winter 2002: Major
research awards, how did life start? documenting Amazonia, space
psychology, TIGRE - new gamma ray telescope
Autumn
2000: NASA Funding Facts; Remote sensing comes of age; What lies
under the clouds of Titan?; SOFIA Takes-off
Department of Agriculture at UC
Summer
2003: Fighting childhood obesity; fighting Pierce's disease and
sudden oak death; breeding resistant grapes; salt-tolerant genes;
sustaining California's agriculture.
Department of Defense at UC
Autumn
2001: DOD Funding Facts; Pinnipeds and Noise Pollution; Visual Cognition;
Robot Soldiers
Spring
1999: DOD Funding Facts; Mighty Morphing Computers; Defending Against
Breast Cancer; Optoelectronics at UCSB
Department of Energy at UC
Summer 2002: Clouds and Global Warming; Fusion
Reactors; Diagnosing Cancer with Lasers; Fuel Cells and Future Cars;
Decoding Plant Signals
Spring
2000: DOE Funding Facts; Hydrogen: A Renewable Fuel for a New Millennium;
Deconstructing Tuberculosis; Good Ozone/Bad Ozone
Contact
For more information about these publications, contact Michael
Barnes, Office of Research.
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