Think it will be any better at small private vs large public institutions? I'm thinking like, are there institutions that might have more $$ for smaller internal grants?
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Internal grants are rarely big enough to do much or anything. A big internal grants is $100k, which is a small fraction of a typical AAG ( or any other grant). That will pay a postdoc for a year, at best.
Right, I'm thinking more small scale. Internal grants are how I've been funding undergrads, and they've been invaluable for accomplishing the bits and pieces that don't require years of specialized training. We're lucky that so much basic astro research can be done in this model.
but where are those grants coming from? If it's endowment, maybe, but some of that might be coming out of the XX% overhead on other grants. Even if endowment, they might have to use that to cover new gaps.
I actually don't know! But that's really part of the motivation under my initial question. If most schools use one particular funding model for these, we could predict a little how those opportunities will weather recent changes.
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