Word: indirect
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...congressional action has spurred inquiries by three other federal bodies, including a criminal investigation by Naval Investigative Services. The result could be an across-the-board reevaluation, and perhaps reduction, of indirect cost rates at private universities...
...addition, the Office of Naval Research has lowered Stanford's rate by four points during the investigation. According to Robert L. Byer, dean of research at Stanford, each percentage point drop in the indirect cost rate translates into a $750,000 loss for the school each year...
Despite some agreement in Washington that indirect costs may have climbed too high, researchers and scholars nationwide are torn on the issue...
Some professors express concern that the high rates of indirect cost may limit or drive away direct monies for research. If the rate at a particular university is much higher than at another, then the government may be more likely to award a grant to the institution with the lower rate, they...
Terence F. Blaschke, associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Stanford Medical School, would like a lower indirect cost rate. For one grant that he was awarded, he received significantly less research money than he wanted because of indirect costs...