University Daily Kansan, May 4, 1981 Page 3
Shankel testifies for science funds
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
A continuing federal commitment to research is essential if the United States is to remain a world leader in science and technology, Acting Shankl testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee last week.
The testimony, made on behalf of several organizations of higher education, was an effort to save the national Science Foundation's basic funding cuts in science education and instrumentation upgrading.
In an interview Friday, Shankel said that scientific research on university campuses had slowed the development of new equipment were not available.
"We are not investing as large a percentage of our national resources in science research and development as we were 10 to 15 years ago," he said.
SINCE 1967, the percentage of the federal budget allocated for
research and development has fallen from 11 to 6 percent.
One of the major cuts in the National Science Foundation's budget eliminates proposed cuts to research equipment required by the nation's research laboratories.
"To delay longer the support of an instrumentation on provision program begs our viability in research and research training and contributes to the process of dismantling the research effort in our country." Shankel told the subcommittee.
"The stream of knowledge needed to keep pace with worldwide competition cannot be turned on and off at will." Shankel told the Senate's Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee. "Each discovery builds on earlier discoveries, often in unpredictable ways.
"Unless new, stronger foundations are lauded in the 1980s by people trained to new levels of excellence, and we need a way to meet the need of the 1990s."
SHANKEL SAID that a research base required 15 to 20 years to build
and that a funding interruption even for only one or two years could destroy that base.
"If that happens as a result of erratic or insufficient funding patterns, or as a result of having to dismantle existing work research teams, it begins again in 19 to 20 years to regain the position we have now," Shankel said.
Shankel also objected to the proposed reduction of the National Science Foundation's role in science education. He said the loss of docu- tories would create a severe shortage of trained researchers.
"It is more difficult than it used to be to persuade some of the best students to consider a career in medicine, but not particularly," he said. "That is why I think the fellowship programs are very important."
AFTER SHANKEL'S 20-minute presentation, the subcommittee of the firm, Harrison Schmitt, R.N.M. requested Shankel about research funding.
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