SLIGHT DECLINE IN FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Bradley, Gwendolyn | Copyright information

Federal funding for research and development in academic science and engineering declined in 2006 for the first time in almost a quarter century, the National Science Foundation announced this past fall. The report of a decline, which is in inflation-adjusted dollars, comes from a survey of universities conducted by the...

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