Talk Overview
Although the US research enterprise is successful and productive, Michael Teitelbaum explains it is not very stable. This instability is primarily due to a history of boom & bust funding cycles. The most recent cycle occurred from 1998 to 2008, when the NIH budget doubled and then abruptly stalled. These boom & bust funding cycles are harmful to universities, faculty, and, most especially, early-career scientists and trainees. Teitelbaum offers three solutions for how to bring stability to the US research enterprise and make it sustainably productive.
Speaker Bio
Michael S. Teitelbaum
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Michael Teitelbaum is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, and former Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a demographer who studies labor and worklife issues of scientists and engineers. Teitelbaum has authored many books over the course of his career, most recently Falling Behind? Boom,… Continue Reading
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