As Congress and President Obama work to settle on a budget deal and avoid the self-imposed “fiscal cliff” of mandatory spending reductions, they must take care not to undermine university research, UGA and Georgia Tech’s president’s argue in a recent opinion column.

“Much of America’s competitive advantage in innovation can be linked back to university research,” the University of Georgia’s Michael Adams and Georgia Tech’s G.P. “Bud” Peterson write in a guest column published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“In our increasingly global environment, if we reduce our investment in education and research while other countries increase theirs, we

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