The policymakers and scientists at the meeting, held at the National Academy of Sciences, were reacting to the report of a survey conducted last year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the request of Lederman, who presented the report. Lederman is president-elect of the organization, which polled science faculty at 50 research universities around the country and received about 250 responses to an open-ended questionnaire about the state of federal . funding for academic research.
Lederman said at the meeting that It the funding situation is worse now than at any time in his 40-year career. To reverse the trend, he proposes in the report that government should double its annual investment of $10 billion in basic academic research. That increase should be followed by a real growth of 9 percent each year for the rest of the decade.
Robert Bender, a professor of biology ...
