Word: researching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Olin's annual report notes that Harvard took in about $500,000 from the foundation for research in topics including Russian research, law, economics, government and sociology...
Olin currently helps finance post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars, professors and three major projects. These research projects examine Congress and defense policy, Soviet and American views on the post-Cold War and the decline of multinational continental empires, Huntington reports...
Economic tides may have the most obvious impact on higher education giving. But for social scientists seeking research support, windshifts in public interest often signal more lasting changes...
Professors in government, history, economics and other such fields receive the large part of their research funds from private foundations. These organizations, unlike the government agencies that support most pure science projects, are often buffered against economic fluctuations by conservative investment strategies...
Harvard has typically done well in the competition for foundation dollars. Non-federal money accounted for slightly more than one-quarter of the University's annual research grants in 1989. That year, Harvard received about $67 million from corporations, foundations and other universities...