Christian Science Monitor: One university’s key to R&D – the right senator
Like most public universities, Mississippi State wants to help improve the state economy – the nation’s poorest.
But unlike most schools, MSU is getting $37.2 million this year in special help from Congress to get the job done.
It’s a magnet for money – call it pulled “pork” – that few schools can rival. By comparison, North Carolina State University, which serves a population four times larger, got $500,000 this year.
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