Interesting Article from Scientific American

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Barbee

I appreciate the info about SolCAP. It's always nice to have background information about how things begin.

I realize that OSU and other universities have to get their funding from somewhere to keep going. I realize that Monsanto provides a lot of fellowships and scholarships, along with large $$ grants to these universities. It's what Monsanto does with these field trials and studies that bother me terribly. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject, because it bothers me that much.

Barbee, SolCAP was funded by a $5 million dollar Federal grant to Michigan State University which is currently the headquarters to SolCAP as the website shows.

Having spent my entire career in academia teaching/researching at two Medical Schools and a private Liberal Arts college I would say that soft money grants to same used to be common, but from what I know, no longer are as common b'c of conflict of interests.