Sentences with phrase «federal science grants»

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Further the STEM Education grants to provide funding for projects to leverage state and federal funds for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Ordinarily, researchers in the U.S. apply for federal grants through agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation (NSF).

While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of Ascience policy director for the Weed Science Society of AScience Society of America.

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

«So let's recap: according to some, scientists who receive money from oil and chemical companies are perfectly qualified to provide the EPA with independent science advice, while those who receive federal grants are not,» he wrote.

So let's recap: according to some, scientists who receive money from oil and chemical companies are perfectly qualified to provide the EPA with independent science advice, while those who receive federal grants are not.

• Also on Thursday, Mervis wrote a ScienceInsider story about a bill introduced by Representative James Lankford (R - OK) that would revise federal grant processes in ways that could cause trouble in science.

There seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month * by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Soon, the approximately 130 PSM programs will likely be joined by dozens more, as the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) prepares to issue an announcement — expected later this month — of grants for establishing PSM programs with federal stimulus funds.

Beaudet also indicated CIHR is postponing the deadline on a forthcoming grant competition until after the working group meets, and Philpott said the results of the meeting will be expected to inform the findings of a recently launched Advisory Panel for the Review of Federal Support for Fundamental Science.

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 miscience 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 miScience Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, in collaboration with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU), have hosted meetings...

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

You think if there weren't giant federal grants earmarked broadly for «Science» that only research with practical applications would ever get funded?

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Over the past several rather tense weeks, the federal government froze all science grants while seeking to balance the nation's budget.

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.

That money, most of it from federal grants through the Human Genome Project, has paid for the first rough guides to the 3 billion nucleotides in human DNA: maps studded with thousands of landmarks called «sequence tagged sites» (Science, 25 October 1996, p. 540).

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [Grant R01DC012931 to T.E.F., Grant R01DC012555 to S.C.K., and Grant P30DC004657 to Dr. Diego Restrepo (University of Colorado, School of Medicine)-RSB-, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Germany (W.M.).

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research is a federal grant program led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help states develop their research capabilities and institutions.

If the cuts in the skinny budget had made it into law, they «would've really decimated the federal sciences,» and not just what the agencies do themselves, but in academia as well «because that's where the grants come from,» Shultz, said.

The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science's flagship funding program, the Junior Faculty Awards are designed to provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to grow into vibrant research programs attracting major federal grants.

Senators Gardner and Peters were recognized for their bipartisan work on the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA), legislation that reauthorizes activities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), STEM education programs, and seeks to reduce the administrative burden associated with federal grants.

Dan has also been a tireless advocate for plant science by serving on more than a dozen federal grant panels.

July 14, 2015 Ci3 awarded $ 1.2 M NIH grant to boost STEM, health literacy among urban teens The Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC Design Lab), a signature program for the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago, has received a five - year, $ 1.2 million federal grant to investigate gameplay and game design as a way to enhance science and health education for minority groups.

New federal grant expands initiative to increase PhD student diversity beyond the life sciences.

The SBIR grant is supported by Senators Susan Collins (R - ME) and Angus S. King Jr. (I - ME), who have been advocates of federal initiatives to build a strong science and technology sector, including legislation to promote biotechnology research, development and manufacturing, and to protect intellectual property.

A high - ranking National Science Foundation official who oversees K - 12 education grants has agreed to pay $ 24,900 to settle a federal civil lawsuit.

Changes to the federal student - loan programs put in place by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 will take effect on July 1, including increased Pell Grants for some students majoring in mathematics and science.

The Education Department, along with other federal agencies and private funders, earlier this year awarded grants for the development of standards in science, history, and the arts.

The federal agency rejected a request for a two - year, $ 3.1 million grant for the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination of High School Science Education project run by the Arlington, Va. - based National Science Teachers Association.

Twenty - four projects will be receiving $ 240 million in federal grants to support efforts to raise student performance and the quality of teaching in the nation's math and science classrooms.

The grants are from the federal Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program, which supports efforts by colleges and universities to provide high - quality professional development programs for teachers with the goal of improving instruction and closing achievement gaps in mathematics and sScience Partnership (MSP) program, which supports efforts by colleges and universities to provide high - quality professional development programs for teachers with the goal of improving instruction and closing achievement gaps in mathematics and sciencescience.

U.S. Department of Education officials don't want to grant that exemption, saying California can't ignore the federal requirement to measure students» progress in science annually.

MCPER has been awarded a $ 2.5 million, 4 - year federal grant to launch the Scientific Explorers project, which will design and test a science program for the full range of second - grade learners, including those with or at risk for learning disabilities in mathematics, reading, and science.

Ineligible for federal grants, undocumented science students must rely on private fellowships — which often depend on DACA.

CA — Congressman Jerry McNerney, who represents California's 9th District and serves on the House Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Caucus, has joined the advisory board of STEM Learning Opportunities Providing Equity, an endeavor supported by a federal Investing in Innovation grant.

When I was the Math Curriculum Coordinator for a K — 12 district, I had the privilege of being a co-principal investigator for a three - year, $ 1.5 million federal Math — Science Partnership grant designed to improve the pedagogical content knowledge of middle school mathematics teachers.

The city schools system is planning to use up to one - tenth of its $ 256 million share of the federal grant money for as many as 16 new standardized exams to cover science, math, social studies and English in the 3rd through 12th grades.

Districts can use federal grants to help struggling schools improve math, science and vocational courses.

All of the major federal agencies that it relies on for research grants — including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — are feeling the squeeze of shrinking spending in an effort to control the ballooning federal budget deficit.

The federal judge overseeing two climate liability lawsuits in California hosted a tutorial on climate science in his courtroom Wednesday, granting climate activists something they've long desired — «a trial on climate science.»

There are rules in place at universities and imposed by the federal government (usually the National Science Foundation) that are designed specifically to prevent scientists from becoming rich with grant money (aka defrauding the grantor).

The Polar Science Center is funded through grants and contracts from federal and state agencies and private foundations.

Under a three - year, $ 700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, faculty from two UMass research centers, the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Electronic Enterprise Institute, will work with the National Mediaton Board, an independent federal agency that works to help resolve labor relations disputes in the railroad and airline industries, to investigate the use of technology and ODR to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee recently approved a bill that would provide federal grants to encourage other states to enact distracted driving bills to discourage drivers from talking on their cellphones or text messaging on them.

University research is often made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation and other federal programs that support important academic innovation.