Research resurgence – After backsliding, UM logs first spending jump in six years

"I think we will be competitive next year and maybe exceed MSU the following year," says Scott Whittenburg, vice president for research and creative scholarship.

New figures released for last fiscal year show the first bump in UM’s research https://www.umt.edu/research/ spending since 2009, and a record-breaking $83 million grant dollars awarded to university faculty.

Research at UM has long been the little sibling to its Bozeman counterpart, at least in terms of size. For decades, Montana State University http://www.montana.edu/about/research/ has spent more–it’s a $100-million yearly enterprise there–and translated more faculty work into patentable technologies. Meanwhile, UM has been weathering a backslide from its own more modest spending peak.

By Derek Brouwer

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