February 25, 2009

NSF and NIH Differ Over How to Pay Out Stimulus Money

By Paul Basken

Arlington, Va.

In the absence of definitive guidance from either the U.S. Congress or the White House, the nation's two leading providers of federal science money to universities are apparently taking different approaches to what it means to help the U.S. economy.

The National Institutes of Health, which is getting $10.4-billion from the $787-billion economic-stimulus measure signed last week by President Obama, announced it will tweak its science-based distribution guidelines to ensure the

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