Externally funded research projects initiated by
faculty on or after
Research projects ranged in size from $15,000 to $890,000. Typical (median) award amount was $148,581, down slightly from the median award in the previous reporting period of $196,000.
Focusing just on these research projects, the total represents an average of a little over a third of a million dollars ($418,805) for each of the fifteen Presidential faculty lines filled during the period.[2] This per capita funding amount is up markedly from the amount for 7/1/01 - 1/1/03 ($274,817 per faculty member).[2]
Particularly exciting is that such a substantial fraction of Presidential faculty were funded. During this latest period, 60% of Presidential faculty (9/15) were externally funded on projects of at least $100,000 or more.
Faculty's new work continued to range over a wide array of
topics such as evaluation of drug treatment for offenders, matching
juvenile delinquents to appropriate programs, community prosecution,
analyzing locations of violence in prisons, and understanding drug use trends
among arrestees, for example. Funders included national,
state, and local agencies.
Looking at the same time period, five training or
technical assistance projects totaling
$2,131,610 were initiated by the Criminal Justice Training Programs, under the
leadership of Jon Clark. This program creates standards and writes curricula for
occupations within law enforcement, trains law enforcement personnel within the
state of
Total new research and training projects from 27 different projects
totaled $8,413,686. Twenty two of these 27 projects (81%) and
75% of the funding
dollars were for externally funded research.
The link below takes you to a list of externally funded projects starting after
Externally funded faculty projects
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[1] These totals exclude a project "Mental illness and substance use
disorders: Behavioral treatments" on which faculty member George Rengert is
a co-investigator. This project is run through the medical school. It also
excludes an internal competitive award to Ralph Taylor from the Office of the
Vice President for Research, Dr. Kenneth Soprano.
[2] We count in the total of 15 Dr. Nikos Passas, who left his Temple position
at the start of the Fall 2003 semester; we also include Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe, who
began his tenure track appointment at the beginning of the Fall 2003 semester.