Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody went through the summer assuming nothing was going to happen," Leahy said, "and a lot of people who had received legitimate awards from the NSF made commitments to graduate students, assistants, and junior associates, and have made plans for their own research. Now they are told that they can only spend 80 percent or so in this year...
Leahy said that the NSF--which last year provided Harvard with some $5.7 million in research money--has established expenditure ceilings for each university, and has given the responsibility for allocating funds directly to the universities...
...Robert E. Gentry, director of the Harvard Office for Research Contracts, said yesterday. In the past, almost all research money has been awarded to individual professors heading projects, and the money has therefore been negotiated on a grant-by-grant basis. But, after the federal spending cuts, NSF set up fund ceilings for each institution--in Harvard's case, $5.395 million--based on the institution's expected allocations minus a certain percentage...
...order to decide which NSF money should be cut at Harvard, Dean Ford has set up an ad hoc committee composed of representatives from each department involved. The committee has had two meetings already, and its plans are now to make "pretty much a grant-by-grant analysis," according to Leahy...
...With the NSF approach," Leahy said, "the university finds itself trying to play Solomon in cutting individual research. There is a lot of elasticity in the system, but certain people will be hurt. And there is every indication that things won't be much better next year...