Sentences with phrase «federal science»

And the delay was good news for many federal science agencies.

Here is a closer look at postdoc compensation, benefits, and transition grants, and some proposals for federal science - policy attention.

The pursuit of creativity in research work is a frequent obsession of scientific leaders and policymakers, particularly, it seems, when federal science budgets shrink.

It's particularly important nowadays, due to the planned cuts in federal science funding.

Experts on federal science and energy policy shared their perspectives on what lies ahead for public policy support for science and for the role of science in guiding government decision - making.

It's telling that the new climate engineering report didn't come via request from federal science agencies.

While corporate funding of science is not new, the focus on the ethics of such aid is growing as state and federal science grants are reduced amid budget cuts.

Canadian scientific research is under threat following the federal government making it more difficult to access scientific information and significantly down - sizing or closing federal science libraries.

As does every new president, Trump gets to fill out the ranks of federal science agencies with political appointees, from the agency chiefs who require Senate confirmation to lower - level bureaucrats.

The White House has been a very difficult administrator of federal science policy with making political decisions about scientific matters and not being able to create a long - term plan for how science ought to be supported.

The metrics examined in this report are receiving more attention from policymakers and other stakeholders, particularly in light of growing calls for the development of better evidenced - based budgeting in federal science programs.

(The rest of this story is based on the first few hours of today's markup of the bill, which covers NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the science programs at the Department of Energy, and federal science education policy.

Scientists welcomed those announcements, but were unenthusiastic to hear that the government will conduct the latest in a series of reviews of federal science spending.

Fed report: Time to examine purposely cooling planet idea — A.P. Seth Borenstein writes «It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling the Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

A number of these changes in text relating to questions of climate science altered the content of the draft as it had been developed by federal science program professionals.

Those words are «the subcommittee's subtle way to say that it does not agree with the House's approach,» says Joel Widder of Federal Science Partners, a small consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. House of Representatives today took a major step toward setting federal science budgets for the 2018 fiscal year that begins 1 October.

Despite some grumbling, today's NSF announcement marks a milestone: It means that essentially all of the major U.S. federal science agencies now have a public - access policy.

«It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

Bridge funding can help buffer scientists from a short - term funding downturn, but Matlin doesn't expect sequestration to be revoked, or congress to increase federal science funding anytime soon.

Officials with the Russian Ministry of Science and Education, which oversees federal science policy, announced plans to raise the average monthly paycheck of a researcher 5-fold to about $ 1050.

The R&D Appropriations Dashboard, created by AAAS» R&D Budget and Policy Program, provides anyone with an interest in following federal science funding an easy and accessible way to monitor a process that is often hard to follow, said Program Director Matt Hourihan.

Marburger's attendance provides postdocs with a unique opportunity to discuss what federal science - policy initiatives may improve their working conditions.

Unlike other federal science agencies, NOAA hasn't been authorized by law.

Clark's leadership skills and dedication were on full display in 1981, added Levine, when the administration of President Ronald Regan sought to reduce federal science investments.

As Underwood explained, «[f] rom time to time, Congress asks federal science agencies to prepare an expert «bypass budget» that lays out the funding the agency thinks is necessary to meet an important goal.

And Culberson, who chairs a spending subcommittee that sets the budgets for several federal science agencies, is not without his own considerable resources, including the backing of a national Republican Party desperate to retain his seat.

For some, concern that the BRAIN Initiative will be an unwieldy, «top - down» federal science project seems to have been at least temporarily allayed.

The success of one of the most ambitious and contested federal science programs in years may rest on the delicate shoulders of a one - pound albino breed of rat known as Sprague Dawley.

Discretionary spending — the part of the budget adjusted annually by appropriators, and the source of most federal science funding — was slated to be held flat at $ 1.07 trillion, under the second and final year of the Bipartisan Budget Act.

President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a White House East Room audience packed with federal science leaders, academic researchers, patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

In a keynote speech at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science, Biden also eviscerated the current trend toward science denial by President Donald Trump's administration and other national leaders, and issued a passionate call to double or even triple federal science funding.

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The Trump administration's proposal to slash federal science funding by 13 percent, or $ 4.3 billion in the 2018 budget strikes across the nation's science organizations.

Of course, Obama has barely been able to tweak federal science budgets beyond the one - time boost in the stimulus legislation, so the issues go far deeper than presidential politics.

A new National Academy of Sciences report gives good guidance on filling top federal science and technology positions with the best possible candidates.

Lock - step, consensus federal science prevented the US military and the US Department of Energy (DOE) from understanding the violently unstable nature of the energy source that powers the Sun and causes eruptions and flares from ordinary stars like the Sun and from pulsars [1 - 4].

Sea levels off the coast are rising a quarter of an inch annually, faster than anywhere else in the United States, except off Louisiana, according to federal science data.

In addition, we sent the recommendations to the Executive Office of the President and senior federal science executives overseeing the USGCRP and National Climate Service planning.

Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

A shutdown would have broad impacts on federal science programs, including halting granting activity at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

► Wednesday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out a long - expected and controversial «reauthorization» bill covering NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research at DOE, and federal science education policy.