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UW research puts $65M into Wyoming economy

October 10, 2005 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

University of Wyoming research programs contributed about $65 million to the state’s economy and ranked as the fifth-largest single entity in the state service sector.

Bill Gern, UW vice president for Research and Economic Development, said that UW’s research programs, funded by outside contracts and grants, make up 2.3 percent of Wyoming’s service sector economy. Others in the top five of the service sector are the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, United Medical Center in Cheyenne and the Laramie and Natrona county school districts.

Gern said UW’s research programs have advanced in large part through the university’s participation in federal infrastructure-building programs, such as the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and National Institutes of Health Institutional Development Award program.

"Research helps create a very robust learning system that involves faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students, all in the process of developing new knowledge or new applications of existing knowledge," he said in a report to the UW Board of Trustees recently.

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