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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Harvard can come clean and self fund. Total disgrace. Ga Tech could do a better job and be more cost efective. Disperse the money to NC State, Purdue, Ohio State etc. Harvard margins and overhead way too high.
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Trump is cutting funding for science research. Not redistributing it. Harvard’s webpage details the amazing science research they do and Trump is killing that. Shameful but just one of the many shameful things Trump does each day. [/quote]
People also miss that Saudi Arabia, Dubai, China and other countries are giving large research grants to US labs to export the US scientific advantage to their country.  My PhD science lab at a large state school got the majority of its funding from China and the Saudis.  We also had a small amount of DARPA (US defense grants) but those came with tons of strings, paperwork and restrictions.  NSF, NIH, and EPA funding was there, but also restricted.  The foreign funding was far more useful and flexible for us to follow discoveries.  For the foreign funds, our PI (a Nobel Prize recipient) had to spend a chunk of time every year teaching in their country and had to take students and post docs from their country to train them.  But that was more manageable for him than writing a million grant request and reports for paltry amounts from US funding agencies.

The US needs to fund science or it will end up owned abroad with talented scientists working in antagonist countries.  The middle eastern countries all know the oil is going to dry up someday and they are using that cash to buy themselves a spot as a scientific leader.  And China plans to dominate the planet.  It's huge a national security risk to kill US science and engineering funding in the way the Trump administration has done.

If the US has research funding, most of that foreign talent really does choose to stay in the US.  We want those folks to stay.  Many are brilliant.  We literally won the atomic bomb race because of immigrants and many other discoveries come from foreign born, US-developed talent.[/quote]

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