These are especially difficult times for researchers who depend on government money. Their "anxiety is palpable," Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote last 2006. Moreover, Leo Furcht, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, warned Congress that "we are, quite simply, losing our global position as the leader in science and technology." This article discusses the financial shortfalls now afflicting academic science and considers alternative sources of money for research. The author reckons that the financial shortfalls could be alleviated by dipping into the bountiful treasuries of many rich universities, and by industry's agreeing to pay more for the knowledge and skills that it admits to finding indispensable. Nevertheless, Washington, will always be the mainstay for university-based research.