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[QUOTE="crazypaco, post: 4304481, member: 2275"]
It doesn't work like that.  While research projects are applied for and awarded to investigators, the money is actually provided to the institutions to manage and they take indirects out of it (that is overhead for facility maintenance, etc that can be well over 50% of the award).  In essence, the NIH essentially pays the institutions for their facility upkeep and part of their faculties' salaries to work on the projects that the NIH decides to fund...NIH doesn't pay researchers directly.  Researchers buy supplies and hire lab staff through their institutional research offices that acts as custodian for extramural money.  Note that according to NIH lists, Cornell Weil research $ does not count towards Cornell's NIH total because it is awarded to what is technically two separate entities. Geography has something to do with how the AAU looks at things.  The University of Nebraska's Medical school in Omaha did not factor into its research profile when it got kicked out of the AAU.

Bottom line, there is no shortcut unless you plan to outright buy and fully integrated a major research institution, which isn't going to happen, and even then, it would likely need to be located fairly close to the Syracuse campus.

However, it also isn't true that the Big Ten requires members to have AAU membership.  It is more like a nice-to-have box to check for their presidents. It isn't some deal breaker.
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