But in the battle of the moment, it’s easy to lose sight of a decades-long alliance between the U.S. government and the nation’s most prominent universities, forged to fight a world war.

But in the battle of the moment, it's easy to lose sight of a decades-long alliance between the U.S. government and the nation's most prominent universities, forged to fight a world war.

A link that dates to World War II The grants are testament to a system that has its roots in the early 1940s, when the U.S. government began securing cutting edge research through a singular ...