Research · May 28, 2026
Faculty Bring in a Record Year of External Research Funding
Grants and contracts crossed $9 million for the first time, led by manufacturing, health, and environmental science projects.
UW–Porter Falls faculty secured a record $9.1 million in external research funding this fiscal year, a jump driven largely by a state manufacturing-innovation grant, a multi-year federal environmental monitoring contract, and a cluster of smaller health-sciences awards.
The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs credits the growth partly to a two-year push to help faculty identify and apply for funding earlier, including a proposal-development fund that covers preliminary data collection before a grant is even submitted.
“None of this money is for its own sake. Almost every one of these projects has undergraduate research assistants on it, paid, doing real work.”
— vice provost for research
Roughly sixty undergraduate students were paid research assistants on funded projects this year, up from about forty the year before.
Contact: Office of University Communications, news@uwporterfalls.edu
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