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Since research funding is arranged through the ORC, that office handles the incoming money for the researcher placing it in accounts for the researchers so that they never have to deal with cash, Judith O. Semper, assistant director of ORC, says...
...ORC works out the formal legal obligations for cost sharing between the sponsor and the University, according to Barstow. A typical agreement would involve the sponsor putting up 95 per cent of the funding for a project with Harvard kicking in the last five per cent...
When a government agency does ask for the right to edit or censor research results, ORC negotiators "try to persuade the government against it. The task of the negotiators is to get rid of publication restrictions or anything that makes doing research difficult for researchers," Barstow says...
...ORC is constantly at work trying to resolve clauses in contracts which permit the government project officer to redirect research...
Shaw, like most Faculty members, is appreciative of Harvard's insistence on academic freedom. "I'm in a more secure place to be accepting money than in any other institution," Shaw says. "ORC protects the Faculty to an unusual degree...my hands would've been tied (when doing the M&M-Mars research) more if it weren't for the University policy," he adds...