UM: Stimulus Funding

The Detroit News reports that some conservative lawmakers are criticizing the use of federal stimulus funds, including research grants awarded to UM: “Other grants under scrutiny were awarded to University of Michigan, where federal research spending increased 14.7 percent over the previous year, thanks to the stimulus package. Although U-M received $272 million through July for 503 projects, one that has been criticized includes a $317,000 grant to U-M researchers, who are sharing it with Princeton scientists, to measure how the media primes voters in political campaigns. Another is a $529,648 grant to William Axinn, U-M’s director of the Survey Research Center, who is studying Nepalese population processes on the environment.” [Source]