July 20, 2001
Report Outlines Disparate Federal Support for Scientific Research
It's become a mantra among university officials that the buildup in federal funds for biomedical research has left the physical sciences behind. A report released last week by the National Academy of Sciences provides some hard numbers to support that view.
The report examined federal spending on academic research in 22 scientific disciplines from the 1993 to the 1999 fiscal years, the last for which data was available.
After inflation was factored in, seven fields showed a
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