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400 +

RESEARCH PROJECTS HAPPENING ON ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS

150

PH. D. FACULTY WHO WORK IN MORE THAN 40 DISCIPLINES

60

SPECIALIZED LABS AND UNIQUE RESEARCH FACILITIES

DRI’ S RESEARCH COMPETITIVENESS

416 Institutions Ranked by Federally Financed Research & Development Expenditures in the Environmental Sciences
National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research and Development Survey – FY14
1 – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute( WHOI)
2 – U. of Washington, Seattle 3 – U. of Colorado, Boulder
4 – Colorado State University, Ft. Collins
14 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology( MIT)
23- U. Oklahoma, Norman and Health Science Center
26 – Desert Research Institute
33- U. of Maryland, Center for Environmental Sciences
38 – Stanford University 57 – U. of California, Davis 59 – U. of Nevada, Reno 72 – U. of Nevada, Las Vegas

$ 30 MILLION

IN GRANTS AND CONTRACT RESEARCH IN 2015

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