Government money pays for *research* not education.
Research money goes to pay for PhD students' stipends, postdoc salaries, summer salaries for professors, equipment, supplies, travel (to scientific conferences), and research facilities provided by the university (through what's
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Government Research Funding Structure and Academic Resource Allocation
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Research Impact and Scientific Communication Beyond Disciplines
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"Broader impact" means "what would be the impact of your research, beyond the local neighborhood of your academic discipline." A perfectly reasonable question to ask.
"Outreach" means "will you be able to communicate your research beyond your circle of expert colleagues"
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Harvard Not Fundamentally Different From Other Universities
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Harvard is not fundamentally different from other universities.
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NSF Grant Requirements Have Minimal Impact on Funding Decisions
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Now put a number on how many NSF grant funding decisions would have been different if such statements hadn't been compulsory?
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Pinker Brings Facts and Sanity to Harvard Academic Debates
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Steven Pinker injects some facts and much-needed sanity in the debates around Harvard and American academia.
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Trump Administration’s Impact on American Scientific Research
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The details of the Trump administration's methodical destruction of American science.
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American Academia Faces Systemic Destruction Crisis
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The methodical destruction of American academia continues unabated.
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European Tech Industry Challenges Perception of Technological Inferiority
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Europe has original ideas and the technical talents to implement them.
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Academic Research Foundation Behind Product Innovation
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It's astonishing how few people understand this.
They see some cool product innovation and think the underlying technology just appeared out of thin air.
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Open Source Collaboration Accelerates AI Progress and Innovation
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Without Llama (or PyTorch) there would have been no DeepSeek.
The point of open source is that you can accelerate progress by building on each other's work.