John DiStaso continues his investigation of where the federal stimulus money is being spent in New Hampshire. Today, he looks at money going to university research projects.

Dartmouth lists more than 90 projects funded with stimulus money channeled through various foundations and institutes, much of it related to health, medicine and biology, including:

– $2 million for a magnetic resonance imaging scanner for cancer, neuro and cardiac imaging.

– $528,450 to study “consumer-resource interactions: impacts of a plant invasion on the individual and colony performance of a native pollinator.”

– $401,998 to study the question, “Can cyanobacterial blooms in nutrient-poor lakes accelerate eutrophication?”

There were also several physics- and astronomy-related projects, along with a relatively simple outdoor project: construction of a student-designed footbridge over the Jacobs Brook on the Appalachian Trail in Orford, funded with $23,000.

New Hampshire Watchdog: Dartmouth College received $38.7 million in “Stimulus” funding