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Some of that money goes to the grad students. Source: I paid grad students the majority of my research funding for 16 years, and so did all my colleagues. Unl
by robotresearcher 5mo ago
Some of that money goes to the grad students.
Source: I paid grad students the majority of my research funding for 16 years, and so did all my colleagues.
Unless you’re building a new facility at CERN, etc, the bulk of research cost is people.
- evolighting 5mo agoI don’t think this is really about salary. The “whole thing” is never cheap. Running something like a university — providing the environment, infrastructure, administration, facilities, compliance systems, equipment, libraries, grants offices, laboratories, and institutional platform that allow professors and graduate students to do research — is itself extremely expensive. After all, if you look at the fiscal budgets of major economies, public spending on education and research is often much larger than military spending.
- robotresearcher 5mo agoThe grad students get facilities along with their salary and benefits, yes.