The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/research_funding/)
The new Nexus Scholars Program offered the first cohort of Arts and Science students the opportunity to conduct research this summer in an eight-week paid undergraduate research opportunity.
University researchers have been selected to receive millions in federal grants for their innovations in clean energy technologies.
The Chinese company is currently embattled with several Western governments that have accused it of spying on behalf of the Chinese government.
Despite the budget cuts across all departments of the University, scientific research at Cornell has the finances to prosper thanks to the funds received from the government’s stimulus plan.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 passed by Congress in February pumped $787 billion into the ailing economy. A part of the stimulus included increasing spending in education, health care and infrastructure.
But the Act also allotted $8.9 billion to scientific research, which was split among several of the nation’s major research centers, including NASA, the National Science Foundation, research universities and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Last week, lawmakers gathered in Albany to meet with New York Gov. David Patterson in response to his new budget that failed to include funding for research programs that were funded last year. One noticeable absence was $450,000 in funding towards Cornell’s Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors. According to Newsday, without these same funds that the program received last year, the researchers would be forced to discontinue their work. The proposal also did not include the $300,000 for a hotline for breast cancer patients and their families based out of Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y.