Thursday, May 23, 2013
6.15.2012
About $50 million in federal university research funding that goes to smaller states, such as Louisiana, was restored in pending legislation through an amendment Thursday by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. The legislation that includes the National Institutes for Health funding was slated to cut nearly 20 percent of the funds for the NIH’s Institutional Development Award, or IDeA, program that was designed in part to assist smaller states. 
 
 
 

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