Gas Money flowing into Universities
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Length: 07:06
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There's a gas rush on in Pennsyvlania. There's also a rush to study the risks and rewards of the Marcellus shale. Some of that research is paid for by the very corporations extracting the gas. Should public universities do research that benefits corporations? The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier went to Penn State, one of the biggest corporate funded research schools in the country, to see what research Marcellus shale drillers were funding.
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There's a gas rush on in Pennsyvlania. There's also a rush to study the risks and rewards of the Marcellus shale. Some of that research is paid for by the very corporations extracting the gas. Should public universities do research that benefits corporations? The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier went to Penn State, one of the biggest corporate funded research schools in the country, to see what research Marcellus shale drillers were funding.
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There's a gas rush going on in Pennsyvlania. There's also a rush to study the risks and rewards of the Marcellus shale. Some of that research is paid for by the very corporations extracting the gas. Should public universities do research that benefits corporations?
As the Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier found out, corporate cash can help researchers, but some wonder whether the public is really being served.
FRAZIER: $103 million dollars. That's how much Penn State gets from big corporations to fund research every year. Only Duke, Ohio State and MIT get more research dollars from industry. The money pays for work in everything from computer science to nanotechnology to Marcellus shale.
KOHL: So this is the core lab, we've got almost 6,000 feet of core over here I think, I'm not quite sure what the last number is.
FRAZIER: Dan Kohl is a graduate student in Penn State's Department of G...
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