Sentences with phrase «federal research effort»

Better yet, the federal research effort should find ways to embed evidence gathering into the daily work of school districts and state agencies.

In addition, the bill establishes a working group to make recommendations on existing programs and research and to prepare a report summarizing these recommendations as well as current federal research efforts related to Lyme disease and other tick - borne diseases.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

The bill is intended to strengthen and provide transparency in federal research efforts to understand the potential environmental, health, and safety risks of nanotechnology.

Especially now that the federal government is returning power to states under the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law by President Obama on December 10, 2015, federal research efforts should be refocused to more effectively help states and districts develop and test their initiatives.

Gerwin (2013) Harvard University, Center on the Developing Child Examines Federal research efforts on the science of early childhood development and the use of home - visiting Early Head Start programs to build responsive caregiving and help alleviate the effects of toxic stress.

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That research led to improved gearbox designs, reducing the overall cost of wind energy and showing how collaborative industry efforts and federal support for R&D can resolve performance challenges.

Don't expect cuts to the federal program that funded the cleanup of the Buffalo River, sturgeon restoration in the Niagara River, beach forecasting programs on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and other research and rehabilitation efforts in the Great Lakes, Rep. Chris Collins said.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a survivor of Lyme disease, says the federal government is falling behind in its effort to battle the tick - borne disease, despite a move by Congress to boost research into a vaccine.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

After the hearing, Senator Serino issued a statement, saying that the health department efforts so far have fallen short and that «more is needed from our partners at the State and Federal levels» for research, prevention and to develop more effective testing and treatment options.

AAAS wrote to leaders in Congress and the White House, encouraging them to back efforts to expand federal support for stem cell research.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

Many of the new research efforts that will be rolled out by private partners and the federal government aim to fill the gaps identified by the IOM report.

The America COMPETES Act will help them do that by devoting more federal funding to research and development efforts at universities, creating hundreds of new opportunities for young scientists.

Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and two congressional representatives commending their efforts to end a long - standing federal freeze on gun violence research.

President Donald Trump today unveiled a 2019 budget request that — once again — calls for eliminating numerous federal research programs, including a fleet of NASA satellites, energy research efforts, and climate and environmental science programs.

Biomedical research productivity perhaps has fallen because after receiving a large infusion of federal funding in the past decade it may take time for new or expanded research efforts to become efficient.

Researchers can search a directory of algal specialists, browse documents that spell out state, federal, and international research and control efforts, and access references and outside links.

Last summer, Biden launched the Biden Cancer Initiative along with his wife Dr. Jill Biden to continue, outside the federal government, an effort he has led since 2016 to speed advances in cancer research and care.

The original COMPETES Act, passed in 2007, endorsed major budget increases for NSF, NIST, and research programs at the Department of Energy as well as bolstered federal efforts to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across KResearch Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kresearch innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

Although the net effect of the various research measures was essentially a flat - lined science budget, the community was grateful that the government decided to delay by a year its efforts to rein in the federal deficit.

And Australian scientists have their fingers crossed, hoping the directive from Greg Hunt, revealed this morning, really indicates the federal government is reversing a previous decision to scale back climate research efforts.

, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, on March 31 saying: «We strongly support the efforts of the federal government, such as the NIH mandate and the Federal Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research.federal government, such as the NIH mandate and the Federal Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research.Federal Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded researchResearch Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded researchresearch.»

«We believe such a drastic reduction to OSTP's budget will dramatically inhibit the ability of the federal government to coordinate, prioritize and manage the federal research and development (R&D) effort,» Leshner wrote.

The government is making strenuous efforts to clean up and redevelop the region, and researchers at the Federal Environmental Agency will be managing research projects associated with this.

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

Teitelbaum says the new Democrat majority in the U.S. House could bolster efforts to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research beyond the limits that President George W. Bush laid down in 2001.

Last year, a federal effort to coordinate research, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, found ocean warming already was forcing a migration of some research, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, found ocean warming already was forcing a migration of some Research Program, found ocean warming already was forcing a migration of some species.

The report calls on federal agencies and other research funders to support efforts to build the surveillance systems and develop case studies on the health of individual marine mammals and populations.

The NIA leads the federal effort supporting and conducting research on aging and the medical, social and behavioral issues of older people.

Among its directives, the legislation will direct federal researchers to launch a «Manhattan Project» - type effort on all stem cell research.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

A new paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) summarizes efforts by the ARM Climate Research Facility, through collaborations with university and federal partners, to develop and use unmanned aerial capabilities for atmospheric research in theResearch Facility, through collaborations with university and federal partners, to develop and use unmanned aerial capabilities for atmospheric research in theresearch in the Arctic.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

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.

While it is unlikely that the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009 will pass in the coming weeks, we believe that this is a time to celebrate the remarkable efforts of the entire SMA community in driving forward the Federal Government's interest in SMA research.

There are promising success stories in the remaking of federal efforts in education research.

WASHINGTON — The number of schools participating in the federal school - breakfast program jumped 8.9 percent this fiscal year — the biggest increase in 13 years — due to a sluggish economy and stepped - up efforts to sign up schools, a research and advocacy group reported last week.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

Jennings's book is an interesting and informative window into the past, but we shouldn't look to him for cutting - edge research or compelling proposals for future federal efforts.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

Third, he seems annoyed, in noting the principled case for a federal role in supporting basic ed research, that we didn't list various administration efforts or proposals (like i3 and ARPA - ED).

Previously he served as Senior Program Director for Evaluation and Policy Research at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organiResearch at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organiresearch, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organizations.

This is especially true given state and federal statutes, salary schedules, and established policies that restrict the ability to redeploy resources and that make aggressive efforts to act on data and research exhausting and contentious.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

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