Until 1990 the level of departmental research funding fluctuated in the $250,000 to $400,000 range. The department has received three NSF infrastructure grants, first under the IIP and then MII programs, in 1990, and again 1998 and 2002. Each award was for five years and approximately $1,500,000, permitting the acquisition of continuously upgraded state of the art research and instructional laboratory equipment since 1990. In 2004 the CS department in collaboration with other researchers, received a five-year $4.5 million grant to establish a center for bioinformatics research.

Departmental faculty members have been successful in obtaining research grants and awards from supporting agencies and industry. More than half of our faculty members have grants, providing academic year salary, summer salary, research equipment and research assistant support. The expertise and advise of our faculty members is actively sought for collaborations and consultancies inside and outside the university: domestically and internationally. Indeed, many of our faculty members are invited to give special talks and lecture series abroad.

In addition to regular departmental research facilities, there are several other special purpose labs in the department. Among these are the Curriculum Development Lab which is housed in the J. Mack Adams Laboratory for the Instruction of Computer Science and Mathematics, the Knowledge Representation, Logic, and Advanced Programming KLAP Laboratory, and the Programming Languages, Environments and Automated Software Engineering (PLEASE) laboratory, to mention a few.