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Farber, a member of the Council, conceded that he himself and other members of the committee have been frequent recipients of NIH grants. However, he insisted that Council members who apply for grants are more carefully gone over than those who are not on the council." He said that council members' applications are scrupulously examined because all Council proceedings are made public...
Later this summer the Hospital will break ground on the $9.5 million research building. In addition to the present NIH grant, the Hospital received $2,470,000 in an earlier grant from the NIH last January. The rest of the money required for construction comes from individuals, corporations, and foundations...
...fulfill the requirements set by the Surgeon General, the entire executive board of Harvard's Committee on Research Responsibility at the William James Center for the Behavioral Sciences would have to convene to review every research request of every graduate student receiving NIH funds. The executive board would be required to keep records to show that it had approved each research proposal, and, in addition, it would be obliged to make periodic inspections of each experiment to guard against any violations...
...that in the future of such an ambitious institution, what the American Anthropological Association thinks is more important than what even the wealthiest donor thinks, just as it may matter more to Harvard's financial solvency to be able to get grants from the NSF and NIH than to graduate alumni who will strike it rich in oil or real estate. In sum, the power of the academic guilds acts as a counter-vailing pressure against local intimidation, just as federal money based on quality of proposals acts as a counter-vailing pressure to the parochialism of a particular state...
...Invited. More skeptical fellows around the shop accuse the corporate planner of living in an ivory tower, but- if true-this sometimes gives him a better view. Among executives who resist change, planners often encountered "the NIH attitude"-not invited here. Planners get their kicks vicariously, by persuading others to do things. "Because we make recommendations and not decisions, there's nothing for which we can take full credit," says Lockheed's Chief Planner James Lipp, an aeronautical engineer. Nonetheless, it was Lipp's cadre of engineers, scientists, economists and retired generals that advised Lockheed...