Sentences with phrase «federal research»

You pointed out that the amount of federal research funding for energy hasn't changed much since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

What followed were not cuts in federal research funding, but sustained increases.

But the problem has been growing — out of public view — for several decades, probably in annual budget negotiations for federal research agencies at the top of the research food chain.

As a result, labs funded by federal research grants have less money for salaries, lab equipment, and supplies than they used to.

More importantly, it shows that most federal research dollars actually support people, both the senior scientist on the grant and those working in his or her lab.

All other federal research programs will lose some funding.

Overall, two - thirds of next year's proposed $ 6 billion increase in overall federal research spending — a 4 % boost to $ 152 billion — would come from mandatory sources.

These machines serve thousands of scientists from universities, industry, and other federal research agencies in fields ranging from particle physics to structural biology.

Aside from a technology leap of epic proportions aided by federal research labs, the difference today is a hefty dose of support from federal taxpayers and a tweaking of state laws.

However, the panel says, it's «very clear» that «a concerted federal research effort» is needed.

He noted that interest payments on the national debt, at $ 230 billion per year, dwarf federal research budgets in all agencies combined — even at a time of low interest rates.

That decline limits hiring by universities and other nonprofit research institutions that receive federal research support.

Although the two programs together constitute a tiny fraction of the overall federal research pie, university lobbyists don't think that they should be growing at all.

And it could be a month before scientists learn the extent to which federal research agencies will benefit from the deal.

In recent years, the university has funded construction through private donations or by selling bonds and then paying them off through federal research grant money.

This is in line with current federal research that has shown that smoking pot before driving increases the likelihood of getting into a car accident.

The report also suggests where federal research agencies should focus their attention.

The committee recommended federal research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a significant global climate impact.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

These grand aspirations are now being pursued in a changing fiscal environment that is likely to see severe constraints on federal research expenditures.

On balance, 40 years of intensive federal research have produced no new technologies that could be called transformative.

He stays in close contact with his policymakers and sends them regular emails on the importance of federal research funding and other priorities.

In his reply, he describes a sense of responsibility to the public which, through federal research funding, pays for much of his science.

Miro is a trained truffle dog that belongs to Simon Egli, a co-author of the Biogeosciences paper based at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

Without Washington's billions — about 126.5 of them this year — America's university laboratories and a vast network of federal research centers would wither, if not collapse.

The latest version doesn't suffer from such restrictions, however, and both Faulkner and Smith expect the board to have jurisdiction over the entire federal research enterprise.

«For decades, Congress has complied with the gun lobby's demand for no new federal research into the public health crisis that gun violence has created.

DOE is responding to a February 2013 memo from the White House directing federal research agencies to come up with a plan for allowing free access to taxpayer - funded, peer - reviewed manuscripts within 12 months after the paper appears in a journal.

Gray's crusade against global warming «hysteria» began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old - fashioned stuff based on direct observation.

[5:19 p.m. Updated Below you can also read about new federal research concluding that strong hurricanes don't just pose a threat on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, but could threaten some of the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing parts of the seabed in relatively shallow waters.]

These recent efforts, each of which involved interdisciplinary teams of colleagues, culminated in the publication of marine mammal noise exposure criteria and research recommendations, and a U.S. federal research strategy for the coming decade to understand and manage noise impacts on marine line.

«One of the wise things about federal research policy since World War II is that it wasn't directed solely at conducting research but also at building capacity for research,» science and health policy journalist Daniel Greenberg says.

UPDATE: On February 17, 2017, the USDA announced that they were re-posting on their website some documents from certain Federal research facilities.

If the new administration really wants to restore U.S. manufacturing, fix the trade deficit, and boost innovation, it should leverage the best ideas that come from federal research programs and invest in funding the next big thing.

The Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (P.L. 97 - 219), reauthorizing legislation (P.L. 99 - 443) and P.L. 102 - 564 (Small Business Research and Development Act), encourages the effective use of small business in meeting federal research and development objectives.

He said increasing federal research dollars to fight the disease «is both going to be certainly one of my priorities, but I also think it will be National Institutes of Health's priority as we move into the coming years.

Our point was precisely the value of federal research investment and support for the principle of ARPA - ED (of which I spoke approvingly to HELP).

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

As federal research funding becomes even more difficult to obtain with cuts in funding, private foundation grants, such as from the SBTF, can permit researchers to start important research projects that can provide preliminary data for bigger grant proposals.

Among the highly publicized events was a series of spectacular and potentially lethal slip - ups involving such gold - standard federal research establishments as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration, and a hearing looking into those agencies» safety shortcomings by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

«So last year they asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to ask the six leading federal research agencies for data on their applicant pools.

Federal research minister Edelgard Bulmahn admits that some university administrations have used the new regulations as an excuse to dismiss scientists, which was not the intention of the reform law.