University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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University Maintains Emphasis On Research a w e do not foresee that the Uni- versity ' s research effort will be diminished by the new emphasis in Wash- ington and the country. We are confident that the University ' s faculty will continue to be successful in competition for research funds because we are confident that our people will con- tinue to produce results. The re is also the fact that emphasis for research funding will remain on areas where the University is quite strong. The National Science Foundation, the Nation- al Institutes of Health and other major sci- ntific funding agencies will, we feel, con- tinue their strong support of the Universi- ty. We expect to succeed in basic re- search proposals to defense related agen- cies, and funding for energy research — one of our strong areas — should remain stable. One area on the prospective list of federal budget cuts was Sea Grant. We recently received an $875,000 renewal of this funding, a constant level from last year for this area in which the University is a national leader as one of only 15 Sea Grant institutions in the nation. In fiscal year 1980-81, The University of Georgia received $27 million in com- petitively awarded research support. Our total research expenditure in that period was $60 million or more than a 13 percent increase over the year before. The discoveries relating to nutrition, cancer, more and better food, an im- proved economy, and every other aspect of life are too numerous to list here. The information added to society ' s storehouse of basic knowledge is also too vast to chronicle. The growth of The University of Geor- gia into one of the nation ' s top 50 re- search universities is a remarkable suc- cess story. Consider that the $60 million devoted to research in 1980-81 is an 85 percent increase over the 1975-76 research bud- get, a $28 million increase in five years. This progress is a tribute to our facul- ty ' s performance in finding answers to so- ciety ' s problems. It is also a tribute to our state ' s leaders who made a commitment in the 1960s that The University of Geor- gia would become a first class research and graduate education institution. That commitment, enunciated by Gov- ernor Carl Sanders ' Commission to Im- prove Education was made because our leaders knew this state would never achieve its full potential without a first quality University of Georgia. That goal has been achieved with the support of the citizens of Georgia and their elected and appointed officials. President Fred C. Davison, State of the CIniversity Address, November, 1981. ACADEMiCS 27