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.
He stays in close contact with his policymakers and sends them regular emails on the importance
of federal research funding and other priorities.
And, last year, the Obama administration launched the STAR METRICS program to track the effects of
federal research funding on employment, publications and other measures of productivity (see Let's make science metrics more scientific).
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.
Applied organic research is dramatically under - funded in the U.S. Specific suggestions include increasing the number of private - public partnerships,
securing federal research funding for the organic sector that is proportional to organic's market share, renewing funding in the next farm bill for USDA's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative, and creating large - scale partnerships among multiple companies, non-profits, and researchers.
As competition for
federal research funding heats up and companies pare down their research and development budgets, there's a shift happening in science.
Further, scientific research organizations and institutes that
receive federal research funding are covered under Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in any federally funded education program.
January 18, 2016 Comer Children's doctor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin call for
federal research funding into gun violence A University of Chicago Medicine physician Catherine Humikowski joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D - Ill., at a press conference Jan. 14 as he continued to push for federal funding for research into the causes and implications of gun violence.
The new findings, published in JCI Insight by a team of University of Michigan researchers, come at a critical time for the debate over the future of
U.S. federal research funding.
Canada's three
federal research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health ($ 1 billion annual budget in 2016 - 17), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ($ 1.1 billion), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($ 380 million)-- instituted an intellectual property law exception in 2014.
He came to see opportunism in some of those loudly sounding the global warming alarm — especially as they raced to obtain a piece of the growing pot of
federal research funding on the topic.
The US National Academy of Sciences
directs federal research funds to keep the public unaware that the Sun is the creator and sustainer of every atom, life and planet in the solar system:
In «Science slowdown» (SN: 11/30/13, p. 14), Beth Mole reported on how the recent U.S. government shutdown affected science and on the long - term decline
in federal research funding.
The SBIR program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment
of federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy... one business at a time.
Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and
federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.
Launched with $ 5 million in
federal research funds, it has since raised more money from such private sources as Mithril Capital Management and Y Combinator.
Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton rolled out a plan to boost manufacturing in the United States and assist recovering post-industrial communities, part of a package of tax credits and
federal research funding.
Under provisions of the current continuing resolution,
federal research funding would total $ 55.2 billion for FY 2007, a 2.6 percent decrease that would mark the first year - to - year decline in at least three decades.
An awful lot of
the federal research funding is, how do we fix Windows, how do we fix Linux, how do we make a stronger PC.
Cornell University's president, David Skorton, represented the academic establishment — in particular the Association of American Universities, whose 61 member institutions soak up half
the federal research funding and award half of all doctorates in the United States.
During the Clinton administration, the Pentagon's dominance of
federal research funds was throttled back to about a fifty - fifty balance with civilian studies.
The report's «highest priority recommendation,» a doubling of
federal research funding, could create a «commensurate increase in the demand for researchers.»
When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on
federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»
Andrea Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy and head of UCLA's Galactic Center Group, whose research is cited in the report as an example of work that could be sidetracked without
the federal research funding.
For 34 years, Hopkins has stood as the largest university recipient of
federal research funds in the United States.
For one thing, university faculty at major universities have an outsized influence in setting the nation's research agenda, steering professional academic associations, directing
federal research funding, and training the next generation of education thinkers.
They cried foul last summer when House Republicans proposed taking $ 1.3 billion from the Pell surplus to pay for a rise to
federal research funding.
[Translate] Christopher Keane, The Conversation Impacts of
federal research funding can be felt region - wide.
After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of
federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).