Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Department, not surprisingly, is in charge. Out in the Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
This year, more than $85 million will travel from Washington's offices to Cambridge's laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...
...wasn't the first time, of course, that the SPH has faced charges of misappropriation of funds. Way back in 1975, when one-time SPH faculty member Dr. Phin Cohen charged Harvard officials with actively misusing federal research funds--and then told the NIH about it--the battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort...
...demanding his reinstatement as an assistant professor of Nutrition and pointing the finger at Harvard's unbalanced books. When a Congressional subcommittee heard what Cohen had to say, Harvard was brought face to face with HEW. And HEW launched a massive investigatory audit of some $225 million in federal research grants given to various University faculties from 1974-77. So much for the buddy system...
...criticized us for not documenting our expenditures very well--but they did not find the right documents." Both are convinced that when the University is allowed to scrutinize the audit in detail, the vast majority of the discrepancies will be "negotiated away." Meanwhile, in the Office of Research Contracts on the third floor of Holyok Center, professors continue to apply for federal grants. Of the 100-odd pages in the handbook the Office gives to prospective grantees, a little less than half a page is devoted to discussing audits. Bu the end of the year--when the office sits down...