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VP for Research and Innovation Updates Academic Council on Regulatory Environment
The graph showed a dramatic exponential increase of data points over the past decade. To microbiologist Jennifer Lodge, the chart “looks like a bacterial growth curve with no sign of flattening out.” But as Duke’s vice president for research and innovation, Lodge said the chart was, in fact, something else: The rate of increase of new government rules for federally funded research. “We are aware of the growing administrative burden on faculty regarding research,” Lodge said to the Academic Council Thursday. Her message to the faculty was that she knows time-consuming…
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