BOSTON -- Nine million dollars was given to Harvard University to research and assemble robotic bees. No jobs were created with the stimulus money.

Harvard also received $225,000 to study Narwhal whale tusk function and $176,000 to research pre-natal conditions in Gambian women.

At UMass-Boston, $94,000 is funding a study of pollen. One job was reported, for a graduate student to count pollen grains and assess environmental changes in Northern Iceland during the Viking colonization.

More than $100 million in stimulus dollars were given to colleges and universities for scientific research.

"If that's going to put people back to work, I need to know how," said state Sen. Richard Tisei. "That's a perfect example of wasted money. People are catching on to what this was all about."

In a statement, a Harvard University spokesman told Team 5 Investigates that the projects help "maintain our country's role at the forefront of scientific research and innovation." They also said the projects "will lead to jobs."

One billion dollars has gone to schools across the state to make sure teachers aren't laid off and services aren't cut. But some of the expenditures are unusual.

They include $12,000 for pest control in the Bridgewater schools, $25,000 for vertical blinds in Agawam schools and in Edgartown schools, $13,000 was spent on window cleaning.

"We shouldn't have been using the money to supplement operations that were already supposed to be taking place because it has put the state in a bigger hole," said Tisei.

Across the Bay state, nearly $4 million will spruce up small regional airports, including $400,000 to Gardner, where the airport averages just 14 flights a day.

And at the state's Department of Revenue, $56,000 worth of furniture was expended for child support enforcement officials in their Boston office.

One unemployed Boston resident told Team 5 the state needs to spend the money on jobs.

"I'm looking for a job and the way the economy is, things could be a whole lot better. We have a long way to go. If anything, we should do some public works projects and get some union guys on the street. It's all about jobs," he said. Another resident said, "If it's not creating jobs, let's not do it. People need jobs."