Thursday, Jun 11, 2009

NSF director: How I'll spend stimulus billions

New Scientist: NSF director: How I'll spend stimulus billions

Arden Bement Jr is sitting pretty. He is director of the US National Science Foundation, which hands out grants to researchers in all fundamental fields of science and engineering, except medical sciences. He is the recipient of a $3 billion fillip as part of President Obama's stimulus package to get the economy working again...

Posted by watchman @ 02:48 PM (461 views) Add Comment

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1. inflation is eating my savings said...

This would be a good use of stimulus cash in the UK too, as biomedical research in particular is one of the things we do very well indeed here, and without the conceit of our friends across the pond.

Thursday, June 11, 2009 03:02PM Report Comment
 

2. Hyrax said...

Yep as a biomedical scientist I agree.

Thursday, June 11, 2009 04:10PM Report Comment
 

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