Robert Berne, vice president of N.Y.U. for academic affairs, said negotiating the first-ever private university contract with graduate students would not be easy.
But Mr. Richardson said he would immediately seek to renegotiate the university contract and would find a different organization to handle security and facilities management at the two laboratories.
CAMBRIDGE--Late last month, concerned academic researchers met with representatives of funding bodies and university staff development offices to discuss the situation of university contract research staff (CRS).
Having university contract research experience as well as working in industry and marketing are all elements of my skills portfolio that help me to achieve the objectives of the Promoting SET Unit.
In 1987, having completed an MA in linguistics and German studies in Freiburg, Germany, the end of a temporary university contract presented me with a difficult choice: continue trying to finance a PhD with changing combinations of part-time university and teaching jobs or find a more reliable source of income for myself and my family, possibly by moving back home to Australia.
The ANHCS is a monthly cross-sectional survey among adults aged 18 years and older in the USA, conducted from 2005 to 2013 by GfK (previously Knowledge Networks) through a university contract.
In 1992, a state investigation of university contracts with companies tied to trustees found that Dr. Silber had received a $386,700 bonus for helping to sell Seradyn Inc., a university biotech company.
These results therefore support the commonly observed university policy of allowing faculty to consult with licensing firms outside of their university contracts.
The way it usually works is the professor at the university contracts with industry to do R&D and invites the postdoc researcher to participate.
Lapwood jumped scientific ship in the 1980s after a lectureship at the University of Surrey in the U.K. because, he says, there were no jobs in industry and proposed changes in university contracts made an academic career less economically appealing.
Although they represent the institution as a whole--rather than individual faculty members or students in their private capacities--they can frequently be helpful in explaining university contracts, policies, and practices.
