Sentences with phrase «federal research money»

They * debar * researchers, meaning that for N years, research gets * no * Federal research money, not just from DHHS.

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.

The graph above shows trends in federal research money since the Sputnik wake - up call.

In the study, Cantwell and Barrett Taylor, assistant professor of counseling and higher education at the University of North Texas, found that U.S. universities receiving more federal research money and awarding more doctorate degrees in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) tend to score higher in the Shanghai rankings.

Not exact matches

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.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

National and local health care officials said cuts in federal spending to combat the Zika virus means fewer pregnant women will be tested and there will be less money available to develop a vaccine and research how the disease affects fetal brains.

By Sean Ryan A proposal to use a federal gasoline tax increase to pay for carbon - emissions research is frustrating builder associations that want the money for highway construction.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

The debate about whether the federal government should spend money on basic research instead of giving more to applied research is an old one, said Melinda Baldwin, a lecturer in the history of science at Harvard University.

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

Of course, whether NSF is spending its money wisely is part of a larger debate about how much the federal government should invest in research.

I will have a say in where the federal money goes, thus influencing the future of these fields of research.

With the U.S. budget under intense pressure, lawmakers increasingly are looking to save money by cutting federal spending on research and development.

Given cuts in the current federal budget for renewable energy research and development, it is hard to believe any more money for solar power is coming.

«The bottom line of all of this is that there hasn't been very much money put in... by the federal government or industry,» says Nancy Kinner, an environmental engineer and co-director of the Coastal Response Research Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

The real action likely will be with countries such as China that are pumping money into projects with federal dollars, said Joe Ralko of IPAC - C02, a Canadian - based research organization.

The most famous Einstein letter is in 1939, but in the spring of 1940, when Szilard and Fermi were not receiving the money that they were promised, they wrote a second letter; that is, Einstein and Szilard, in a fact, blackmailing the federal government and saying, if you don't send us the money to do research at Columbia, we're going to publish our results.

When scientists talk about federal stimulus money for research, many focus on the approaching «cliff,» when funding will run out after 2 years.

«Most NSF money [awarded by MPS on research awards] goes to fund graduate students, so this is a natural way for us to contribute to the federal mission of providing support for veterans.»

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory Uniresearch that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory Uniresearch enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory Uniresearch campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory UniResearch Center at Emory University.

Some have also argued that at the very least this new discovery means that federal taxpayers should not fund the destruction of embryos for research (which could proceed in the private sector) and public money should support this new alternative.

Money can be spent immediately: Federal funding for non-defense research has fallen in real dollars every year since 2004 for the life sciences and far longer for the physical sciences.

The plaintiffs claimed that the new policy violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, established in 1996, which states that federal money can not be used for «research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.»

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Representatives Jay Dickey and Roger Wicker proposed banning the use of federal monies for any research in which a human embryo is created or destroyed.

Their promise was so great that when President Obama announced last March that he was lifting the ban on the use of federal money for research on human embryonic stem cells, critics on the right were apoplectic: iPS cells, they said, made such a move scientifically unjustified.

Aware of the political ramifications of the research, his laboratory used no federal money during the course of that study (though it would have been eligible for funding).

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.»

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

Current policy only allows federal monies to be used for research on 21 stem cell lines that existed before 2001.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

OERI was responsible for a network of federal research labs and centers (there are ten federal R&D labs scattered across the country) where innovation was a watchword but where federal money went disproportionately for administration and dissemination rather than fresh ideas that made a mark.

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham told Education Review, «The research demonstrates that more money spent within a school doesn't automatically buy you better discipline, engagement or ambition.

New research by Jonathan Butcher shows that, on average, federal money pays for 41 percent of the salary expenditures at state education departments in states that contain more than 70 percent of the nation's K — 12 students.

And indeed, it is a substantial sum of federal money that is being sought to float the research and development activities of the recently established National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

New research by Jonathan Butcher shows that, on average, federal money pays for 41 percent of the salary expenditures at state education departments in the 34 states for which comprehensive data are available — but federal requirements are disproportionate to the federal contribution.

Private - sector providers received $ 400 million in federal money for what are called supplemental educational services in 2005 - 06, according to a new report on K - 12 tutoring by Eduventures, a Boston - based market - research firm.

The office of educational research and improvement has become politicized, diminishing its credibility and restricting the amount of money the Congress is willing to provide for its activities, concludes the report, «Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination: Reclaiming a Vision of the Federal Role for the 1990's and Beyondresearch and improvement has become politicized, diminishing its credibility and restricting the amount of money the Congress is willing to provide for its activities, concludes the report, «Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination: Reclaiming a Vision of the Federal Role for the 1990's and BeyondResearch, Development, and Dissemination: Reclaiming a Vision of the Federal Role for the 1990's and Beyond.»

The World Wide Web can be shaped into a vibrant educational tool serving all learners if more money is devoted to research and development and if governments clear away many conflicting and obsolete rules, a federal panel has concluded after a 10 - month study.

Puzzlingly, lack of research evidence has not stimulated rigorous research (funded by the federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example) into why so little if any progress occurred and how federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that spent it.

Research found that nearly 50 percent of black students who borrowed money in 2004 for a bachelor's degree program had defaulted on a federal student loan by 2016.

Before you give your trust and money to student loan aid companies to work on your behalf, set aside some time to research how you can reduce your federal student loan payments on your own (and free of charge)!

This is because scientists usually apply to federal programs funded by taxpayers in order to get money for research.

Here's a 50 - year view of big initiatives, seen through the lens of federal money for basic research and development.

Here, once again, is the dribble of federal money for basic research and development work on energy frontiers (yes, I have mantras, too):

Republicans in Congress have begun an investigation into the work of the scientists who sent the messages — many of whom have conducted much of their research with money from the federal government — and the scientific and policy decisions that may have flowed from them.

But the importance of money in our universities, the very high status of research, and the fact that so much research funding comes either directly or indirectly from the Federal Government, means that vice-chancellors and deans are unlikely to look with favour on an academic who dares to suggest that the emperor seems increasingly devoid of clothes.

Many of the cuts result from Congress's decision to forgo earmarks, in which lawmakers can funnel money toward research projects federal agencies may or may not have on their wish lists.

New research shows that through additional policies, federal and state governments and businesses can encourage investment in cost - effective technologies that rein in methane leakage, helping the natural gas industry save money while reducing harmful air pollution.