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发帖数: 91 | 1 http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/nsf-gets-1-tr
by Jeffrey Mervis and Eli Kintisch on 12 April 2011
The figure may be $563 million below its 2011 request, and a cool $1 billion
south of where the Obama Administration wants the National Science
Foundation's budget to be in 2012. But NSF will be able to preserve most of
its programs after applying the $65-million cut to its current budget that
is part of the deal struck last weekend between Congress and the White House.
The agreement gives NSF an overall budget of $6.81 billion for fiscal year
2011, which runs until 30 September. Its research account was trimmed by $53
million, to $5.51 billion, and its education directorate saw $12 million
shaved from its $873 million budget in 2010. That amounts to a reduction of
1%, rather than the administration's planned increase of 7.6%.
As a result, NSF officials expect to make 134 fewer awards and support 1500
fewer researchers, students, teachers, and technical support personnel than
the agency did last year. The shortfall from the president's 2011 request,
they calculate, is 1450 awards and 16,700 researchers, students, teachers,
and technical support personnel.
A 2010 law puts NSF's budget on a 10-year doubling track by 2016, which in
the current fiscal climate seems a real stretch. Even so, NSF's fiscal
outlook is much brighter than it was 2 months ago. That's when the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved a 2011 budget that
would have lowered NSF's budget by $300 million, to $6.57 billion. Last
month a Senate appropriations panel marked up a spending bill that would
have given NSF $6.85 billion. Although that measure was defeated on the
floor, the number is very close to the tally in this week's final agreement.
What happened? Science lobbyists say they don't know what turned the tide.
But they are certainly thankful for the support that Congress showed for the
nation's only agency whose sole mission is funding basic research across
the scientific and engineering disciplines. "I can't attribute it," says
Michael Lubell of the American Physical Society. "There's a recognition [of
the value of science] in the Senate, and we know the administration has
really fought for these programs throughout."
Tobin Smith, of the Association of American Universities, also points to
Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), chair of the House spending panel that
oversees NSF and several other science agencies. "You can't discount the
role that Frank Wolf played in helping the agency," says Smith. He and
Lubell surmise that House Republicans were more passionate about cutting
environmental and energy programs, cutting funding to pay for the
enforcement of regulations, and trimming infrastructure spending than taking
an axe to science. So in negotiations, suggests Lubell, keeping science
agencies funded was more important to Democrats than cutting them was to
Republicans.
Next up is the 2012 budget, and Lubell foresees tough sledding for NSF's
proposed massive increase. "The lion's share [of the cuts] are going to be
felt by NSF," he predicts. "We'll see whether the same people who rose to
the challenge for the 2011 budget come through again." | c*******n
发帖数: 718 | 2 Good news right?
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【在 b**m 的大作中提到】
: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/nsf-gets-1-tr
: by Jeffrey Mervis and Eli Kintisch on 12 April 2011
: The figure may be $563 million below its 2011 request, and a cool $1 billion
: south of where the Obama Administration wants the National Science
: Foundation's budget to be in 2012. But NSF will be able to preserve most of
: its programs after applying the $65-million cut to its current budget that
: is part of the deal struck last weekend between Congress and the White House.
: The agreement gives NSF an overall budget of $6.81 billion for fiscal year
: 2011, which runs until 30 September. Its research account was trimmed by $53
: million, to $5.51 billion, and its education directorate saw $12 million
| b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 3 不算个太坏的消息
As a result, NSF officials expect to make 134 fewer awards。平均到每个
program也就少给几个award.
下来国会要讨论明年的budget,估计又是扯皮，明年NSF要能保持住2010年水平，就已经
不错了。
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: Good news right?
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| k******2
发帖数: 1396 | 4 NSF预算也就高盛年终奖金的一半吧。
billion
of
House.
53
【在 b**m 的大作中提到】
: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/nsf-gets-1-tr
: by Jeffrey Mervis and Eli Kintisch on 12 April 2011
: The figure may be $563 million below its 2011 request, and a cool $1 billion
: south of where the Obama Administration wants the National Science
: Foundation's budget to be in 2012. But NSF will be able to preserve most of
: its programs after applying the $65-million cut to its current budget that
: is part of the deal struck last weekend between Congress and the White House.
: The agreement gives NSF an overall budget of $6.81 billion for fiscal year
: 2011, which runs until 30 September. Its research account was trimmed by $53
: million, to $5.51 billion, and its education directorate saw $12 million
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