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Senate committee backs pilot grant program to seed university research
Summary
A Utah Senate committee unanimously recommended a bill to create a competitive pilot grant program that would seed research at the state's universities, repurposing performance-funding dollars and asking the interim Economic Development & Workforce committee to approve research topic areas.
Representative Peterson introduced the first substitute of House Bill 373, a pilot program that would provide matching or seed grants to Utah’s public research universities to encourage projects tied to state economic development.
The bill repurposes money from an existing performance funding account and sets up a competitive grant process. Representative Peterson said the Legislature — through the Economic Development &…
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