July 15, 2019
Joshua Rosenbloom, professor and department chair, will collaborate with Donna Ginther, University of Kansas professor of economics and interim director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research, who was awarded a $236,790 National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of research funding on research outputs.
“The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding” was awarded through NSF’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and also included $313,624 in funding for Iowa State. The research will apply economic methods to policy questions about state and federal research funding and the effects of research funding.