American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 2009:
This web page provides pertinent information related to the federal stimulus package appropriations by agency, special application and reporting requirements, and other information. It also provides links to sites with information relevant on the Recovery Act and its connection with UO researchers.
Summary of Proposals and Awards (As of February 22, 2011):
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| Recovery Act Across the USA |
- UO applications submitted: 140
- Amount sought: $113.43 million
- Awards granted by agencies: 68
- Total awarded to UO: $30.64 million
- UO News Release (Oct. 9, 2009)
- UO News Release (April 26, 2010)
- UO News Release, year-end report (Sept. 3, 2010)
- UO News Feature (October 2010)
ARRA Awards to UO by Funding Agencies:
National Institutes of Health: 35
- National Science Foundation: 18
- U.S. Geological Survey: 1
- AmericaCorps (by way of Oregon Housing & Community Services): 1
- U.S. Department of Agriculture: 6
- U.S. Department of Energy: 4
- U.S. Department of Education: 3
For UO Researchers: Active Award Programs funded via ARRA
- NIH Transformative Research Projects (R01). This NEW award program, announced in November 2009, is part of the NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research, which is designed to address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex problems. NIH encourages applications from interdiciplinary teams as well as individual investigators with bold ideas in the areas of biological, behavioral, clinical, physical, chemical, computational, enginerring and mathematical sciences. This is NOT a limited submission program. Deadline for letters of intent: December 22, 2009. Deadline for submitting application: January 22, 2010.
- UO Research Services and Administraton (ORSA) website on ARRA
ARRA Reporting Information
- NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)

- OUS MEMO from Chancellor Pernsteiner on ARRA Reporting Compliance, 9/23/09
- Bi-weekly UO updates as reported to the Oregon University System (Available Soon)
- State of Oregon (from ScienceWorksForUS.org)
- Oregon University System ARRA site
Archived Information on ARRA
Please contact us if you have information you think we should share with the research community on this topic by calling Jim Barlow at 541-346-3481 or Moira Kiltie at 541-346-3188.
