Word: departmentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The defense funds, which total $255.000, are used by the Astronomy Department for theoretical research projects having little bearing on actual military capability.
The Astronomy Department receives less than six per cent of its Federal research funds from the Department of Defense, according to figures presented at an open meeting of astronomy students and instructors by Harvard Observatory Director Lee Goldberg '34, Higgins Professor of Astronomy.
Goldberg's summary of his department's working budget indicated that over 80 per cent of the astronomy funds come from government grants. Most of the grants, however, come out of civilian agencies. The most important source for research money is the National Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA), which provided...
But it was the much smaller defense funded portion of the budget which pro-yoked the most discussion among the some 75 people present at the meeting. Several urged that the department move towards reducing the defense contracts.
The advisory committee approved last March the concept of multiple funding for the Camrbridge Project, but only the Defense Department has granted money to the Project so far. Philip J. Stone III, professor of Social Relations and a member of the advisory committee, wrote to the National Science Foundation (NSF...