Word: research
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Rudenstine and the other presidents are lobbying against these proposed cuts and pushing instead for an increase in research funding--to come out of the projected budget surplus...
Five years ago Harvard and a few other universities formed the National Science Coalition to lobby Congress for greater support for university research. Now the science coalition has teamed up with the National Business Coalition for Federal Research, an organization of 32 chambers of commerce which was recently founded to stress the economic benefits of research funding...
...while cuts are feared in all areas, universities say they're most concerned about budget reductions in physical science research...
Rudenstine said there is a push in the federal government to give more funding to agencies like NIH that work in the biological sciences and less to NSF, NASA and DoD that sponsor research in the physical sciences...
...main message is that the Congress recognize that a healthy science policy requires a broad-based portfolio," Casey said. "There seems to be broad support for health research, and members of Congress tend to think NIH takes care of that...