About University Research Administration
Spending the Federal Research Dollar
Principal Investigators of research grants have an excellent sense of how their own budgets are spent, but may lack the broader picture. The below graphic (based on an idea originating at MIT) shows how a typical dollar of federal research funds at The University of Chicago is expended, broken into different categories of costs.
The Federal Research Dollar
on the
University of Chicago Campus
Image: University of Chicago Nobel Laureate Charles B. Huggins, Professor of
Surgery, Prof. Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in
1966for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.
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For more information on research funding and sponsored programs in general at the University of Chicago, see the URA website for the annual Proposal/Award Reports.
If you have any questions about these data, please contact Susan Boone
