Harvard, MIT thwart effort to cap research overhead payments

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5 pointsirollboozers4 comments

Harvard overhead rate: 69%. North Dakota State U: 44%.

I would love to see how much of the $175 million Harvard took as overhead went towards 'building depreciation'.

Cutting edge research isn't cheap in the 80's I worked at a place that brought a single item of HP instrumentation kit that cost the same as a small house.

This was before HP started to suck obviously.

Funny you should say that, because there is definitely a trend of decentralizing science (see: Science Exchange) that is making it much cheaper. Science is no longer a large ominous "too expensive to do" undertaking.

I would reference this paper (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7427/full/492034a...), but it's behind a paywall. lol.

well for some id agree but if your building models of nuke reactors you do have to backcheck your mathematical model and some times at over scale - and that is not cheap.

There is a reason that Red Bull (f1 world champions) have wind tunnels as well as CFD models

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