But if by using the term "research project," Chassy and Tribe, like others before them, are implying that the potatoes were never intended to be introduced, that is false.
For one long term research project in psychiatry this has already been done and in addition to HAMD, YMRS and BDI forms to capture admission and discharge data, for example, about diagnosis, medication and therapy were implemented in the CIS.
True, the National Science Foundation has a rapid-response grant program that has been a lifeline to independent researchers, dispersing more than $14 million to 90 short-term research projects associated with the disaster.
Most importantly, students could benefit from an explicit understanding of the communicative purpose and faculty expectations of the graduate degree research proposal: to convey a persona of a budding and yet relatively competent researcher with sufficient motivation and focus, to undertake long-term research projects.
Historically, university management has proved better for long-term research projects than corporate governance.
More recently, we opened a science and engineering research support facility, which will facilitate the development of long-term research projects with local businesses – a project which received £3.9m from the European Regional Development Fund.
Ethical questions notwithstanding, academic-corporate partnership may be the future of stem cell research, some experts said, because they avoid the kinds of governmental action, like the recent court injunction, that can derail long-term research projects.
Jayne Glennon, Head of Major Gifts at Leeds University, said: "It would be unsustainable to use the University's financial surplus, which varies in size from year-to-year, to fund long-term research projects which need their own income streams.
The customers range in age from 18 to 72: students, baristas, the newly separated, scientists hired for short-term research projects, truck drivers, an elderly couple from North Carolina who visit a grandchild who is undergoing several brain operations.
However, such long-term research projects require long-term budgeting and more flexibility, scientists warn.
