Sidebar: NIH's Nealy to Play the Numbers Game
Sidebar: NSF's Ambitious Plans Outpace Budget Hikes
The primary sources of money for academic research had good years: the National Institutes of Health's budget increased by 9 percent, to $9.01 billion, and National Science Foundation funding rose 16 percent, to $2.68 billion. And there are strong indications that President Bush's proposed 1993 budget, to be unveiled February 3, will again feature significant increases for NSF and other agencies. The budget also is expected to highlight government-wide initiatives in biotechnology, science education, high-performance computing, advanced materials and processing, and global climate change.
Nevertheless, many government officials and policymakers are singing the blues when it comes to federal funding of science. NIH director Bernadine Healy says that she's "very disappointed" in what the administration will be shipping to Congress next month. Physicist William Happer, head of the Energy Department's office of energy research, has ...
