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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/04research.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
It looks fairly likely that cuts will happen.
Now, the stimulus did manage to shield universities from the recession (although some physics grad students did tell me that the recession still managed to make grad school more competitive than before). But now it appears that cuts will happen at a time when we haven't fully recovered from the recession. (and also since the stimulus expires 2 years after its inception)
Now, NSF, NOAA, and NIH don't directly fund grad students. But they do give out research grants, and these research grants might influence the funding available for professors to take grad students (and also the funding available for RA positions rather than TA ones). .
It looks fairly likely that cuts will happen.
Now, the stimulus did manage to shield universities from the recession (although some physics grad students did tell me that the recession still managed to make grad school more competitive than before). But now it appears that cuts will happen at a time when we haven't fully recovered from the recession. (and also since the stimulus expires 2 years after its inception)
Now, NSF, NOAA, and NIH don't directly fund grad students. But they do give out research grants, and these research grants might influence the funding available for professors to take grad students (and also the funding available for RA positions rather than TA ones). .
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