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...Florida and Michigan—both of which were won by Clinton—are being discounted. According to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Election Unit, if these votes came into play, the two candidates would be essentially tied in their vote tallies—with about 47 percent of states for each candidate—discounting the argument that Obama is the people’s choice...
According to information from the NIH Web site, the average age of a researcher receiving his first R01 grant—NIH's funding mechanism for single projects that accounts for the majority of its grants to Harvard—has risen by nearly 25 percent since...
...group of senators, including Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that Faust is addressing, to propose an amendment this week to increase NIH funding by $1.8 to $2 billion, or more than six percent increase over the current year's budget...
...positive,” she said in an interview following the testimony.A bipartisan group of 15 senators, including Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, who chairs the Committee, will soon propose an amendment to raise NIH funding by $2.1 billion—a seven percent increase over the budget for this year, according to a spokesperson for Kennedy.Similar amendments have proved unsuccessful in recent years, and Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community, and public affairs, said that despite the “strong support” of the Senate...
...between 1999 and 2003, increases credited with facilitating breakthroughs in research like the sequencing of the human genome and dramatic advances in cancer treatment. But since 2003, the NIH’s budget has been flat, causing the overall success rate for research project grants has dropped from 32 percent in 1999 to 24 percent last year...