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Chapter 5 Funds

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    It was getting late, and a clear moon had already risen in midair.  When doing experiments, it is often day and night.  Several PhDs and post-docs under Huairu's leadership were also very desperate, and they were still busy under the lamp in the dead of night.

    The laboratory is a place that is in close contact with the virus, and the entire laboratory must be in a completely sealed negative pressure state as required.  The flow of people, goods and air flow is one-way to ensure that the pollutants in the laboratory will not cause infection due to leakage.

    Before officially entering the negative pressure laboratory, Huairu needs to wear protective clothing in the clean area, and then he can enter the laboratory through the buffer room.

    Several students and postdoctoral fellows are processing specimens and extracting nucleic acids in an orderly manner here.  Huai Ru stood in the corner, quietly watching every movement of the students.

    His breathing was very gentle, but his eyes were full of concern when he looked at the students: "It's getting late, you have finished the work at hand, go back and rest early."

    When leaving, Huairu took off the protective clothing in order, changed through the shower, and returned to the clean area.  All the necessary steps, he always remembers.

    Coincidentally, Huairu had just returned to the office when the landline on the desk made a beeping sound.  He pressed the hands-free button casually, then leaned back on the seat and stared at the ceiling.

    "I have filled out the application form for the fund project. Teacher Shi, please take a look. Is there anything else that needs to be revised? If possible, please sign it, and I will send the other materials together." The speaker was a new student from last year.  The recruited assistant researcher Xiao Xiao.

    The problem of scientific research funding in the United States is like a hurdle that straddles the heads of professors.  Just like Huairu's department and academy, there is almost no research funding support at all.  If you want to do research projects, it depends on the professors themselves to apply for funding projects of various names to support them.

    There are project funds every year, and the funds vary in size.  As for how much you get, it all depends on your ability and luck.  Applying for a fund is considered a personal achievement, and it looks glamorous on the personal resume.

    ? Especially for professors of science and engineering like Huairu, the support of the fund is even more important.  Big things like hiring postdoctoral fellows and researchers, updating laboratory equipment, small things like business trips, conferences, study visits, catering, and even printing paper in the office, all have to come from project funds.

    As long as it can be reimbursed, it means that there is enough food and ammunition, and it will be much fun to charge forward in the project.  Even some tenured professors who want to temporarily suspend their jobs from the school and go to outside companies as temporary consultants to earn extra money have to rely on the name of these project funds to make a living.

    But to put it another way, once you have an idea for a new project, you will face a series of troubles: from seeking funding support, to launching experiments, summarizing discussions at conferences and small meetings, and various interdisciplinary cooperation, etc.  It's a peace of mind.

    Even how to spend the money beautifully is a delicate matter.  If the money is less, the people who approve the fund will think that the experimental project is not worth the amount, and wait until the next time to apply, maybe they will be rejected.  Too much money is spent, and the problem of abuse must be prevented. If you are not careful, you have to get entangled in the corners of academic corruption.

    "Is this the only one? Have you voted for everything else?" Shi Huairu asked casually.

    There was the sound of a mouse click on the other end of the phone. This was Xiao Xiao checking the samples of the fund application.

    "I have voted for four before, and today is the fifth." Xiao Xiao replied softly.

    Xiao Xiao himself is the group of Guangjin who was attached to the last scientific research fund, and he has long heard that the experimental funds are already stretched.  It is not easy to apply for a fund, and there is always a probability.

    If Shi Huairu didn't plan to apply for more funds, I'm afraid the progress of the experimental projects in the future would be a problem.  And more directly, if this is the case, he will face unemployment.

    "Thank you" Hanging up the phone, Huai Ru closed his eyes slightly, and remained silent.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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