The need for a balanced research portfolio is gaining traction, as evidenced by the move to double the NSF budget over five years by Bond and Mikulski. This is the largest overall increase that the agency has received in several years. However, several of the science accounts, while receiving increases, also contained a large number of earmarks, essentially offsetting the increases. This is the third installment of a five-year plan to double the NIH budget. This is remarkable given the amount of bad publicity surrounding the Department of Energy during the last several years, as well as the original low funding levels proposed by the House.
Cuts correspond to dramatic increases in academic earmarking in the bill.
This high performance disk storage system can be expanded up to 11 terabytes if needed. This Enterprise Storage System provides the capacity for a multitude of production, quality assurance and development databases in support of the University's central administrative systems. The Center will continue as NIFL's partner for the Workforce Education Special Collection and will become the partner for the Literacy and Learning Disabilities Special Collection.