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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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I took my share of federal medical research grants
That's ok Rick! I have inside information; I worked 18 years in the Schools of Medicine and Social Work at the University of Washington. At the time of my 'retirement' in 2002, the UW topped the list of public universities receiving the most federal grants for medical research (only the private Johns Hopkins ranked higher).
I was always on "soft" (NIH grant) money; never "hard" (State of Washington funds). The living was easy; I never feared losing my job due to loss of funding (only PD could kick that chair out from under me). I was not a researcher, just a lowly staffer - but somebody had to run the office - and make sure the grants were filed correctly and on time! Our research dollars pay for that too (administrative overhead).
I hear the pickings are much more slim now, throughout the country (the UW is currently ranked 5th); but the feds, in this case the NIH, still run the gravy train.
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
Last edited by indigogo; 06-29-2009 at 11:11 PM.
Reason: clarification
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