October 15, 1999

Reassessing an NSF Program for Research Have-Nots

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

EPSCOR has helped colleges in small states win more funds, but are they too reliant on it?

Maine has long ranked near the bottom of all 50 states in the amount of federal research dollars won by colleges -- about $21-million in 1997.

But the picture has been far brighter in Alabama, where colleges received nearly $259-million in federal support that same year. In 1994, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

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