Throughout your academic career, you will find faculty members who excel at teaching and research. The university has more than 4,000 distinguished faculty members, 54 eminent scholars, nearly 100 Fulbright scholars and numerous other faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized in their disciplines. More than two dozen faculty are members of the National Academies of Science/and or Engineering, the Institute of Medicine or a counterpart in another nation. The faculty attracted $518.8 million in research and training grants in 2005-2006.