Word: zare
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...widely known that many of Stanford's departments, both in the science and engineering fields as well as the social sciences, are second to none. Faculty, past and present, include Linus Pauling, Richard Zare, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Roberts, Steven Chu, John Taylor, Richard Zimbardo, Condoleeza Rice. If you know anything about their respective fields, you'll know who we're talking about...
Despite the attempts of the federal government through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to help agencies coordinate their budgets and to ensure that they fund projects within their jurisdiction, Zare says a lack of communication still plagues the federal research funding system...
...However, Zare says NSB is not the appropriate agency to make such changes, suggesting instead that other "stake holders," such as Congress and the Various funding agencies, come together...
Harvard and other research institutions are also involved and have a stake in research policy, and universities and academic departments should not ignore the issues raised by the NSB, Zare says...
While Martin and his fellow researchers sometimes attribute inefficiencies in science funding to mismanagement within the current system, Zare emphasizes that the severity of the problem makes changes hard to implement...