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Funding Science in America, first published in 1999, explores the pros and cons of the academic earmarking issue.

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the

The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by

The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to