Funding

Doling Out Dollars

Dartmouth received a whopping $128.2 million in research aid in the fiscal year ending June 2001. Funding jumped 26 percent, up from $101.7 million the previous year. The big winners on campus: Medical School, up 14 percent; faculty of arts and sciences, up 32 percent; and Thayer School, up 83 percent. The bulk of the money—sloB million—came from government sources, with private corporations and foundations providing the rest. The government's largess represents a 27 percent increase over the previous year's research funds—and reflects, in part, New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg's short-lived chairmanship of an appropriations committee. The increase also reflects a greater emphasis on research among faculty. Where the money goes: