Collaboration, teamwork lead to sharp increase in grants to WMU (Western Michigan University)

(Source: Western Michigan University) KALAMAZOO, Mich.-An increase in collaboration and multidisciplinary teamwork has led to a sharp rise in grants to Western Michigan University. Externally funded awards, much of them for research, pushed the grant total for the 2014-15 fiscal year past $35 million, an increase of nearly $8 million over the previous year. The grant total in June, the last month of the University fiscal year, came in at $3.7 million. The year-end grant total-$35,166,490-was announced at the WMU Board of Trustees October meeting in Grand Rapids. It is roughly $8 million above the $27,179,910 for fiscal year 2013-14. Trustees also learned that grants are off to a brisk start...