Sentences with phrase «funding agency representatives»

► In an editorial, Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt recapped a June meeting at the AAAS headquarters in which editors from 30 major journals, funding agency representatives, and scientists discussed ways to promote reproducibility in the biomedical sciences.

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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

«U.S. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke announced on the steps of City Hall on Monday that they had written a letter to the president urging him to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the federal agency charged with enforcing the nation's gun laws.

Washington (CNN)- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $ 447 billion spending bill that funds several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year - money needed to keep government funded after next week.

Representatives from some county - funded agencies expressed appreciation for the proposed budget and were thankful for the continued support from the county.

The Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and Senate have been at odds over whether to pass the House's DHS funding bill, which would fund the agency but blocks financing for President Barack Obama's controversial plan to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation through an executive order.

This is a representative list of federal agencies that host and fund fellowships.

That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during «town halls» with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Representatives of various funding agencies concurred on the importance of the postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory and the immediate need to define the postdoctoral scholar position.

These were just a few of the questions raised in an open meeting on 10 October 2002 in Washington, D.C. Within the ornate halls of the National Academy of Sciences building, members of the scientific and legal communities, ethicists, and representatives from funding agencies and professional societies discussed a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct.

Hanging over the effective decrease in support proposed by the House of Representatives last week is the «sequester», a pre-programmed budget cut that research advocates say would starve US science - funding agencies.

This meeting will bring together postdocs, administrators, officials of funding agencies, and disciplinary - society representatives.

Subsequent articles will examine comments from postdoc office administrators, funding - agency representatives, and disciplinary - society officials; they will also discuss the potential for federal science - policy initiatives to enhance the postdoc experience.

During 2014, Science worked with members of the research community, other publishers, and representatives of funding agencies on many initiatives to increase transparency and promote reproducibility in the published research literature.

That's the first official answer from lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to President Donald Trump's request to make deep budget cuts at several key science funding agencies.

The United States Senate appropriations committee is set to approve a NASA budget for 2010 that mirrors President Barack Obama's $ 18.7 billion request for the agency, setting up a fight with the House of Representatives, which slashed $ 212 million from the funds sought by NASA for its human exploration program.

The House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee today scaled back proposed funding levels for three key science agencies as part of its reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate has blocked a House of Representatives plan to restore current funding levels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through 15 December, saying House Republicans shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose which federal agencies they'd like to reopen.

Welcome to the Postdoc Network electronic mailing list, an online community of nearly 1000 postdocs, faculty, administrators, professional society representatives, and funding agency officials.

«The Census Bureau is inadequately funded,» argued Representative José Serrano (D — NY), the top Democrat on the House spending panel that oversees the agency, at a markup last month of a 2018 spending bill.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have again shown their low regard for the Census Bureau, voting to use it as a bank to fund other federal agencies and telling people they don't have to fill out a survey that allows the government to track the country's changing demographics.

Fattah relinquished his position on the Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee today and was replaced by Representative Mike Honda (D — CA), a former high school principal who has been a reliable vote for additional federal funding of research and education.

The U.S. House of Representatives during last week's debate on a spending bill that funds the National Science Foundation and other agencies.

This was GRC's fourth annual meeting and included representatives from 56 science and engineering funding agencies from around the world.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which has identical versions in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would expand to other research agencies the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 4 - year - old policy requiring investigators it funds to submit copies of their peer - reviewed manuscripts for posting in a public database.

Responding to concerns from advocates for public access to government - funded research, the House of Representatives science committee has agreed to shorten the deadline within a draft bill requiring federal agencies to provide free access to scientific papers that they supported.

To this end, representatives of all the interested constituencies will host sessions: postdocs, administrators, disciplinary societies, and funding agencies.

EuroScience organised a special Get - Together session for all young researchers who have received a grant to participate in ESOF2012 to not only meet their peers but also meet and thank in person the representatives of funding agencies whom they have been awarded the grant from.

Responsive to the needs of the community, the AAS reviews and issues small research and travel grants (sponsored by the AAS, NASA, and the NSF), holds town meetings with agency representatives, and has recently demonstrated its leadership in preparing The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy (funded by the NSF; AAS, 1997).

Participants will include innovators and leaders in biology research and education and representatives of professional societies, funding agencies, and research and educational centers.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

This group comprised of 32 providers, funders, state agency representatives and community stakeholders got right to work, discussing the most important priorities for the state of Texas and researching the standards of other states, which they will use to inform their recommendations.

This group, comprised of thirty - six funders, state agency representatives, researchers, intermediaries and program providers has released a draft of the program quality standards for community feedback.

Julie Belaga, a former regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency as well as a former Connecticut State Representative and candidate for governor has been a champion on behalf of the environment and a long - time member of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment's Board of Directors with Esty.

Thanks to the efforts of numerous Senators and Representatives on both sides of the political aisle, numerous sections of ESSA enable states and local education agencies to utilize federal funds to support college coursework for:

In a letter from March 19, 2018, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D - CA), asked Chairman Tom Cole (R - OK) and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to fund SLRSP at $ 14.5 million in the FY 2019 appropriations bill.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).

Requires eligible partnerships to include: (1) at least one local agency eligible for funding under the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (PCTEA) for secondary education programs or an area career and technical education school or education service agency; (2) at least one post-secondary institution eligible for PCTEA funding; and (3) representatives of the community with experience in clean energy.

Every other year, the Panel meeting is held as part of a US CLIVAR Summit, which assembles the SSC, the Panels, the Project Office, funding agency managers, and other US and international program representatives to review progress, explore science needs, and plan future activities.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

He has represented a broad range of clients, including publicly traded companies, manufacturing firms, retailers, real estate development companies, recording studios, captive and independent insurance agencies, hedge funds, mutual funds, registered representatives, and investors, in Federal and State Courts, arbitration forums, and administrative agencies across the country.

This group may include early childhood policymakers and representatives of Child Care and Development Fund administrators, Head Start Collaboration offices, Head Start grantees, Early Head Start — Child Care Partnership grantees, child care resource and referral agencies, and State Advisory Councils.

The funding provided for a series of meetings and consultations with relevant state and territory government agencies and a National Roundtable held on 15 June 2005 with a range of representatives from the community and university sector as well as state government agencies.

The agencies include the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) and Victoria's Native Title Representative Body (Native Title Services Victoria), as well as Caring for Country (CFC), a Victorian community initiative which administers several ILC and National Heritage Trust funded programs in Victoria.

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