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4:00pm Illini Union, General Lounge, Rm 210 Urbana (View Map) Daniel Langenberg

Standard justifications for government funding of academic research have emphasized the lack of incentives to pursue basic research in the private sector.  But the relationship between public and private funding for research is shifting.  Federal policy since 1980 has promoted patenting the results…

Universities and colleges have now benefited from $6.5 billion in earmarked or pork barreled federal research funds.  When universities, and particularly their presidents, decide to bypass peer review and pursue earmarked dollars, what ethical choices do they make, and with what consequences for…

After a fifty year period of a global war, our country is readjusting to a global economic competition.  During the wartime, the federal government assumed a very strong central role in the initiation of research topics in science and engineering.  In the last few years, there seems to be a major…