I know I bewailed the $132 million rescission of NSF Academic Research
Infrastructure money, but, upon further reflection, it strikes me that those
funds were targeted for federal inter-agency facilities and so academic
facilities like mine did not suffer the direct loss. What we have at NSF is
a current funding level in the ARI program of $118 million with a request
for $100 million for 1996 - still twice previous levels. There are, of
course, other NSF programs for instrumentation funding.
I just spoke with Dr. Marjorie Tingle, Director of NIH's (NCRR's) Biomedical
Research Support Program which administers the Shared Instrumentation Grant
Program. This program was slashed from $33 million in the early 90's to $8
million. Dr. Tingle tells me that the President's request is to increase
this fund from its present level of $9.5 million to $20.5 million. Not back
to where it was, but it's something anyway.
Let your Representatives and Senators know that you want them to support the
President's budget request for NIH and NSF.
wcs
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William C. Stevens, Ph.D. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Director Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4405
wstevens@siu.edu
wstevens@mols.siu.edu voice: 618-453-6498 fax: -6408
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