Re: [Microscopy] Funding pilot projects

[Phillips, Thomas E.]

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I am not sure I agree with this interpretation of the federal rules. They are essentially awarding internal grants. The core simply has to "bill" the funding agency (e.g., the university's office of research) the same rate as they bill federally funded users. If it was free to anyone for as much as they want unless they had a grant, that would be a violation. If the school gives a "grant" of 20 hrs of confocal time, how is that different from giving a start up package to a new Asst Prof that is used to pay for core fees.  Assuming a core is not 100% self-sufficient, it is simply a different way to deliver a subsidy to the core.


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Allan Mitchell posted an entry in this thread referring to their "Zero Fees Scheme".  It sounds intelligent and wonderful.  However, they are in New Zealand, and laboratories in the USA should remember that they may not offer a scheme like this if their instruments have Federal funding.  In the USA, research on Federal funding must be offered the instruments at the lowest rate.  Therefore, if there is a "zero fees scheme" all federally-funded research would have to be free.  Similarly, if classes are not charged, research would have to be free.  There was a thread on this recently.

Alwyn Eades

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Lehigh University

 
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