Canada to Begin Funding Overhead on Projects

摘要

Ottawa, Canada—Winning a competition last year for Canada's biggest new scientific facility in 30 years was quite a coup for the University of Saskatchewan. But along with the right to host the $116 million Canadian Light Source (CLS) came a king-sized headache: the need to find an estimated $9.4 million each year to operate the 2.9-giga electron volt third-generation synchrotron radiation facility once it's finished in 2004. It's a problem facing all Canadian universities, which unlike their U.S. counterparts receive no money for overhead on federally funded research projects. But help may be on the way.