UMass Dartmouth's faculty, staff, and students conduct cutting-edge research, publish in prestigious journals, and secure external funding from highly competitive federal and state agencies. This report recognizes their achievements, and also illustrates UMass Dartmouth’s new Carnegie classification as a Doctoral University – Higher Research Activity (R2). In 2015, faculty received nearly $14 million in research awards, including grants from the National Institutes of Health, the NOAA Fisheries Saltonstall-Kennedy (SK) Grant Program, the National Science Foundation, the NASA Carbon Monitoring System Program, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.