Federal Funding for Mathematics Research

Federal funding and supportive policies for research.

TODAY, THE UNITED STATES IS ONLY ONE DECADE REmoved from what was then a forecast of difficult meager times for the national investment in medical and scientific research. In 1995, the US House of Representatives budget resolution called for a cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of 5% for fiscal year (FY) 1996 and a freeze on NIH funding through FY 2000. However, the NIH ...

The Domino Effects of Federal Research Funding

The extent to which federal investment in research crowds out or decreases incentives for investment from other funding sources remains an open question. Scholarship on research funding has focused on the relationship between federal and industry or, more comprehensively, non-federal funding without disentangling the other sources of research support that include nonprofit organizations and sta...

Is federal funding for dental research in jeopardy?

Federal funding for health services research on AIDS, 1986-1991.

Federal funding for stem cell research: 15 years of indecision.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org Volume 121 Number 7 July 2011 2531 Federal funding for stem cell research: 15 years of indecision In the US, the battle over whether to devote government funding to ES cell research has waged since the Dickey-Wicker amendment passed in 1996, banning federal funding of work that involved the destruction of human embryos. In the ensuing yea...