Sentences with phrase «federal research agencies»

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

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.

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

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

Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a spending panel that shapes the budgets of several federal research agencies.

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

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

Nicholson, like many researchers, has wanted federal research agencies to support more work in this area.

And the chairman and top Democrat of the House science committee have asked the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the ability of five major federal research agencies, including NSF, to ensure that their grantees comply with Title IX.

The policy, released on March 29, makes it compulsory for the first time for all U.S. federal research agencies to assess research proposals for their dual - use risk in cases where the research involves one of a list of dangerous pathogens specified by the policy.

Federal research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through grants to faculty members.

Although the need for more R&D funding has become a familiar refrain in science and technology circles, supporting federal research agencies «is a particular challenge now» said John Holdren in a 30 April speech that opened the 40th AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy.

President Barack Obama has vowed to veto the legislation, despite the political problems arising from rejecting a bill meant to help small businesses, including a provision to extend a long - running research program paid with a tax on federal research agencies.

For Flake, advocating for such changes might be a better way to help federal research agencies get the biggest bang for their bucks than his current efforts to ferret out bogus examples of wasteful spending.

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.

The chairperson of the full Senate committee on government oversight, Senator James Lankford (R — OK), took a slightly more measured tone in critiquing current practices at federal research agencies.

Michelucci received a joint PhD in cognitive science and mathematical psychology from Indiana University, and has been advising federal research agencies since 2006.

The Senate bill invites the NSF director to work with other federal research agencies to give researchers they fund access to the I - Corps program.

AAU today thanked Senator Durbin for introducing the American Innovation Act, legislation that would help close the nation's innovation deficit by bolstering funding for several federal research agencies.

But he has also spoken generally in favor of increasing funding for federal research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which he would oversee if confirmed to the job by the Senate.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

On 12 May Chairman Miller pushed through the House an amendment to the then - pending reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, which contains funding for a number of federal research agencies.

The original COMPETES act aimed to double federal investment in the physical sciences through DOE, the National Science Foundation, and other federal research agencies to help the United States meet increasing competition from countries in Europe and Asia.

NSF should sharpen its criteria for choosing research projects to make sure they are «transformative,» it says, other federal research agencies should measure their portfolios against what's going on elsewhere, and the White House should make innovation a higher priority by creating a presidential council to track the issue.

Federal research agencies were greeted with varying degrees of fanfare when they finally fired up their Twitter accounts again today.

In contrast, he says, most scientists funded by federal research agencies are told «you've got 3 years to get refunded, so that's how you work.

The 66 - page report, previewed last month by its co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, doesn't mention any federal research agency, much less any particular program.

The document follows a well - trod path of asserting that a federal research agency is funding trivial and duplicative research in addition to exercising inadequate oversight of existing programs.

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.

Instead, she was a «rotator,» on leave from SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, under a program that NSF uses far more than any other federal research agency (see Part 1, «NSF Urged to Improve Oversight of Program for Scientists on Loan»).

The three federal research agencies of Canada — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada — recently published a revision of their official human research ethics policy [1].

Weinberg said that the news Tuesday that scientists with some federal research agencies were barred from communicating with the public «lit a fire under us.»

Federal research agencies have an obligation to explain to American taxpayers why their money is being used on such research instead of on more worthy projects.»