Keeping research grants alive

摘要

Universities and federal funding agencies have experience transferring the occasional grant from one faculty member to another because of illness, death or other unexpected circumstances. But in the shooting on 12 February, the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH), lost principal investigators on seven projects in less than a minute.rnThe grants range from a US$415,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the acquisition of a confocal microscope to a $22,000 study of silver nitrate for battling the superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.