Scientists also welcomed Thursday's development but said questions remained about their prospects for getting the long-term grants they needed to keep their laboratories afloat.
Ms. Kight complied and believes that the reason for the rush was to get the grant financed before the new rules went into effect.
Though there is hope that Tulare County will be able to get the grant for Monson, he said, "some people, smart people, are trying to solve these problems and feeling frustrated".
I applied to the Ford Foundation for a grant old saying, when God wants to punish you, he gives you what you ask for!—and got the grant".
"If the city doesn't have the money, or doesn't like the program it is for, it won't get the grant and that will leave us $44 million in the hole," a council official said.
At least a dozen different faculty got involved in formulating specifications of the kinds of programs that would best serve the worldwide scientific community if we got the grant for the Simons Institute.
"What we've got the grant for and what we're doing is we're creating an open standard that can give the likes of built environment owners… such as retailers… or transport networks… we give them advice through the standard… on how they might install and maintain and decide on which technology they should be using inside their built environment," says ustwo's Umesh Pandya.
By the end of March, Chin got the grant -- about $18 million for the first year.
Part of the reason for getting a research grant is disseminating the results widely – are academics being pushed too far to get publicity?
Open information advocates have tried for years to get the administration to grant further access to publicly funded research, and have even used the White House's petition tool to draw more attention to the subject.
