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...research and development--an eighth of the total federal budget. Only 9 per cent (or 13 per cent if university-run federal contract research laboratories are included) of this research money went to universities. The bulk of it (61 per cent) went to private industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1952, only barely coordinates the dispersal of these funds. When Congress approves an agency's total budget with its research estimates, it is hardly ever concerned with whom the research money is going to (except obviously in the case of enormous contracts that may benefit a congressman...
...photographs are used not only to study geographic features, but for taking censuses, and mapping trade routes and settlement patterns. Aerial photography was "Phase III" of the Project, financed by NSF in 1966. It is the butt of many jokes--some call it "Vogtie's thing"--but he defends it on the grounds of both teaching and research...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences receives about 85 per cent of the NSF funds given to Harvard. The Medical School gets about 10 per cent, with the remainder divided among the Business School, the Ed School, and the School of Public Health...
Dean Ford said this week that the Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet later this month to decide whether to divide the Faculty's additional money among the various departments with NSF funds projects, or to keep the money in one "contingent fund" to be used for aid to projects particularly hand-pressed by spending cuts...
Though the NSF's letter of last week said that Harvard's request for more NSF funds would remain "under continuing consideration," some University administrators and scientists feel that the University will not receive any more increases this year, and that the NSF's spending will remain severely limited during fiscal...