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In his annual State of the University address last week, Chancellor James Moeser said, “We should never be content with the status quo. Good enough is never good enough – not for an institution that aspires to be America’s leading public university.”
To achieve that distinction requires the University to seek greater investments in research, Moeser said, announcing a target for UNC to obtain $1 billion in annual research grants by 2015.
By the end of the most recent fiscal year, UNC’s total amount of research grants and contracts grew to a new high of $593 million.
The total represents a 2.4 percent increase from fiscal 2005’s $579 million, and it’s more than twice the amount the University received as recently as 1997.
The growth comes at a time when the National Institutes of Health, which historically has accounted for slightly more than half of all research funding at UNC, experienced a cut in appropriations in 2006 with no increase expected for 2007.
Moeser, who delivered the first State of the University address six years ago and has continued the tradition every year thereafter, thanked campus administrators, faculty, staff and policymakers for their support of the University. He also urged them to continue striving for excellence.
Among other priorities he outlined: