Topline: The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it directly funds scientific inquiry. Most universities enjoy contractually ...

There are many costs associated with running a business, but all of those costs don’t fall into the same bucket. One type is overhead costs, which are expenses not tied directly to the production of a ...

As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I research the effects of and solutions to ocean pollution, including oil seeps, spills and offshore DDT. I began my career by investigating the interaction of ...