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Title Science and the university [electronic resource] / edited by Paula E. Stephan and Ronald G. Ehrenberg.

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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 304 p. : ill.
Series	Science and technology in society
	Science and technology in society.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index.
Contents	Who bears the growing cost of science at universities? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson -- How does the government (want to) fund science?: politics, lobbying and academic earmarks / John M. de Figueiredo and Brian S. Silverman -- University science research funding: privatizing policy and practice / Risa L. Lieberwitz -- Patterns of research and licensing activity of science and engineering faculty / Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby -- Commercialization and the scientific research process: the example of plant breeding / W. Ronnie Coffman, William H. Lesser and Susan R. McCouch -- The importance of foreign Ph.D. students to U.S. science / Grant G. Black and Paula E. Stephan -- Do foreign students crowd out native students from graduate programs? / George J. Borjas -- Foreign scholars in U.S. science: contributions and costs / Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin -- The changing composition of American citizen PhDs / Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo -- Where do new US-trained science engineering PhDs come from? / Richard B. Freeman, Emily Jin, and Chia-Yu Shen -- Global research competition affects U.S. output / Diana M. Hicks -- The workforce for biomedical research-- who will do the work? / Susan A. Gerbi and Howard Garrison.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Research -- United States -- Finance.
	Graduate students in science -- United States.
	Science students -- United States.
	Universities and colleges -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Stephan, Paula E.
	Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780299224806 (alk. paper)
	0299224805 (cloth : alk. paper)