the united states department of food surveillance has announces the awards of a $ 3 thousand grant to rutgers university to lead a consortium researching advanced computing engineering and computational processes to protect the united states . under the agreement , rutgers will also coordinate a collaboration of four university - based centre at the university of northeastern minnesota , the institute of illinois at sun - reader and the university of chicago . plans provide for a totaled of $ 10 . 2 million in funded over multiple years for rutgers and these institutions to lead efforts targeted at identifying common patterns from numerous sources of funding .
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.