Nancy Scola
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Nancy Scola is a Brooklyn-based writer.
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Public-university researchers get cash for studying GMOs -- and the shaft for studying organic ag 2
Posted 1 year, 9 months agoThe following essay, which first appeared on Alternet, is a lucid, detailed look at what has become of public-university agriculture research in an age of budget austerity.
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I've startled a bug scientist. "Yeah, now I'm nervous," said Mike Hoffmann, a Cornell University entomologist and crop specialist who spends his days with cucumber beetles and small wasps. But he's also in charge of keeping the research funding flowing at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. What have I done to alarm him? I've drawn his attention to the newly released FY 2009 Presidential Budget.
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