Sentences with phrase «in federal science»

The Council discussed membership, the Society's peer - reviewed journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), programming at the annual meeting, the usefulness of preprints, new schemes in federal science funding, and many other issues of importance to ASCB members.

As scientists, we have watched with dismay as senior positions in our federal science agencies remain unfilled, science advisory panels get disbanded and science - based policies are undermined.

As mentioned in yesterday's quick summary, the Trump Administration's full budget request is seeking historically large cutbacks in federal science and technology programs, particularly to basic and applied research (see table at right; updated on June 6 with additional agency data).

Not exact matches

The federal government is betting big on investment in innovation, science and R&D.

Canadian Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains speaking in the House of Commons.

The U.S. was No. 1 in stem cell science until the last Bush administration restricted federal funding.

The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.

About half of the company's $ 2.7 million in revenue comes from the federal government, with law, marketing research, and life sciences firms responsible for the rest.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

That raises doubts about a key argument for proponents of federal immigration reform: that companies need looser rules to import overseas workers because there aren't enough job candidates in the United States who can fill specialized skills, namely in science, technology and engineering.

Oracle (orcl) also said in April that it would donate $ 200 million over the next 18 months to a federal government program for computer science education.

We can hold our own in attracting information - technology talent given computer science programs at major universities and federal government cybersecurity operations.

Over at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters in March that spending federal money on climate science is «a waste of your money.»

Sophie is also a member of the Science and Technology Council of Canada, which provides external advice to the federal government in the domain of science, technology and innoScience and Technology Council of Canada, which provides external advice to the federal government in the domain of science, technology and innoscience, technology and innovation.

ID was never dominant, has been thoroughly debunked, and was ruled not science by a federal court in Kitzmiller v. Dover PA School Board.

There is a peti tion at «We the People» to ban Creationism and Intelligent Design in the science classroom as federal law.

Caroline Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest testified that federal food safety agencies need authority to order recalls and trace food.

The Austrian Federal Institute for Education Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE) recommends Steiner Waldorf schools as models for teaching in the sciences.

Researchers at ETH Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, in a joint study with the University of Illinois, confirmed the «biofouling phenomenon» by which bath toys become breeding grounds for bacteria and

Disregarding sound nutritional science has real and troubling implications for all of us, regardless of what state we live in, in that it may weaken the proposed Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and undercut our federal school food nutritional standards.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

In the massive budget bill just passed, Congress stuck in language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost / benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science - based nutrition guidelines for marketing to childreIn the massive budget bill just passed, Congress stuck in language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost / benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science - based nutrition guidelines for marketing to childrein language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost / benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science - based nutrition guidelines for marketing to children.

«This federal investment will allow Syracuse to use their expertise to help underrepresented communities break into the science and engineering world,» said Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y. in a press release.

Mr Blair also used his trip to California to woo researchers in stem cell science to come to the UK, after Mr Bush used his first presidential veto to block the further expansion of federal investment in this area of research.

Speaking during his citizens» engagement tour of some local government areas in the state, Prof. Ezeon explained that the said voting machines were designed by the Nigeria Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and demonstrated to the National Assembly members for adoption for elections, adding that the federal government was yet to adopt the electronic voting procedure for elections.

A group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the arrests of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and his Science and Technology counterpart, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onu.

For daring to investigate the alleged rot at the Federal Science and Technical College, Aka Offot in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, three journalists: Aniefiok Macauley of Daily Independent, Aniefiok Udonquak of BusinessDay and Patrick Odey of DailyTrust were on Wednesday detained by the Police.

Karan Alexander, who graduated from nursing school in 2009, enrolled in Alfred State College's bachelor of science in nursing program last year in hopes that it would lead to «less physically intensive and more managerial» jobs, according to her Manhattan federal lawsuit.

Although definitions for each category exist (as outlined by the National Science Foundation in Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function: Fiscal Years 1995 - 1997), agencies are not always consistent in their reporting.

The bipartisan budget deal reached in late October offers some much - needed relief for federal science agencies, but it remains a temporary fix for programs hit by the spending caps known as «sequestration ``, which took effect in 2013.

As mentioned above, science and technology funding in the Obama years ultimately fell victim to broader Congressional efforts to shrink federal spending and deficits.

Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's priorities could see 350 jobs go over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more than $ 15 million to climate and environmental science in the 2014 — 15 federal budget.

«The event provided a platform for S&T Policy Fellows to apply skills in communicating succinctly and effectively to diverse audiences — a vital skill for making an impact in science policy,» said Cynthia Robinson, director of the S&T Policy Fellowships Program, which places scientists and engineers from a range of sectors in federal government assignments to learn about policymaking.

AAAS, on May 13, responded to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) request for public comment on the Presidential Memo on Scientific Integrity published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2009.

The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic sScience, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic sciencescience.

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Judge Barbara Rothstein, a visiting U.S. District Judge from the Western District of Washington state and past director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., offered a reality check on how science is used in the courtroom.

Both of us were working in specialized fields and wanted to gain a better understanding of the many ways science intersects with Washington policymaking and learn more about how the Federal government, and the complex set of institutions through which it operates, actually works.

Topical lectures will include discussions on the responsibility of the scientific community to address sexual harassment by Meg Urry of Yale University; solutions to the opioid crisis by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the future of science in Africa by Thomas Kariuki of the African Academy of Sciences; forensic science and the law by federal district judge Jed Rakoff; music for brain health by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University; the violence of migration by anthropologist Jason De León of the University of Michigan; and more.

Holt also wrote an editorial in Science on 17 November addressing the uncertainty of federal support for scientific research under the new administration and advocating for better integration of science into policyScience on 17 November addressing the uncertainty of federal support for scientific research under the new administration and advocating for better integration of science into policyscience into policymaking.

DOE presents a good distillation of the Administration's general approach to science and technology: a particular skepticism of federal technology programs and hostility to climate research; a general interest in scaling back even fundamental science; and a desire to increase investment in defense - related activities.

This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Chief Executive Larry «Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's priorities could see 350 jobs go over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more than $ 15 million to climate and environmental science in the 2014 - 15 federal budget.

This matters because discretionary spending is where just about all science and technology lives in the federal budget, and House appropriators have written their spending bills with these changes in mind.

Provides the nation's most comprehensive fellowship experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy.

Holt pointed to the far - reaching implications of the proposed reductions in non-defense discretionary spending for science and engineering programs spread across the federal government.

When it comes to federal research spending, there are «some silly good numbers in here,» tweeted Matt Hourihan, who analyzes U.S. science spending patterns for AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) in Washington, D.C., when the deal was released this past Wednesday.

She tries to broaden the range of groups involved in climate change research, and works with federal, state and municipal government agencies and the private sector on science - based solutions.