Sentences with phrase «increase federal science»

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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.

A constitutional amendment approved last year prohibits the federal government to increase spending above inflation for the next 20 years The situation is «dramatic,» says the science ministry's executive secretary, Elton Zacarias.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science's Next Wave, Vice President Al Gore unveiled details of an initiative to add $ 366 million to the $ 1.5 billion already in the federal budget this year for information sciences, a 28 % increase.

The federal government and its partners must coordinate efforts to increase student interest in math and science long before they reach college age in order to boost the number of STEM graduates entering the workforce.

This phenomenon needs to be understood by individuals, academic institutions, companies, and federal agencies who claim that they want to see the numbers of women and minorities going into science and engineering careers increase, because unfortunately «stereotype threat» is alive and well in the scientific community.

Removing the across - the - board spending caps known as «sequestration» to achieve modest increases for federal science agencies is a «strategic imperative,» George Washington University President Steven Knapp and AAAS CEO Rush D. Holt wrote this week in Roll Call.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

There is considerable overlap between AAU's recommendations for the government and measures proposed by the three bills, including a call for increased federal investment in basic research and more graduate scholarships in science and engineering.

Increasing federal support for research and science education used to be topics for bipartisan agreement.

The original COMPETES Act, passed in 2007, endorsed major budget increases for NSF, NIST, and research programs at the Department of Energy as well as bolstered federal efforts to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

Department of Energy: Few details on DOE's Office of Science, which funds most of the physical sciences in the United States, but the document promises «substantially increased support» for the $ 4.8 billion office «as part of the president's plan to double federal investment in the basic sciences.»

It's also been one of three agencies targeted for major increases as part of a proposed 10 - year doubling of federal support for the physical sciences, although Congress has whittled down the generous requests from the White House.

The increase is «consistent» with the America COMPETES Act, says Amy Scott, associate vice-president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities, referring to legislation that aims to double the money for key science - funding agencies, including the NSF, over 10 years.

Finally, all the participants were asked if federal spending on science should be increased, decreased or kept the same.

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.

Speaking here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW, Vice President Al Gore unveiled details of an initiative to add $ 366 million to the $ 1.5 billion already in the federal budget this year for information sciences, a 28 % increase.

Three years ago, a U.S. National Academies committee recommended (in the report The Gathering Storm) doubling federal investment in basic research in math, the physical sciences, and engineering while, at a minimum, protecting the health sciences against inflation (the cost of which, in math, the physical sciences, and engineering, equals the amount by which the nation's expenditure on health care increases every 7 weeks).

For fiscal year 2019, the ASBMB Public Affairs Advisory Committee is calling on Congress to increase federal investments in the life sciences by 8 percent at all agencies.

The Obama Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.»

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.

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

For several years, a slowly increasing number of engineers, architects, and physical scientists have joined together to dispute the truth of the official explanations proposed for 9/11 by the U.S. federal government (see: «Science at 9/11» at: http://www.ae911truth.org).

The Federal Government has announced a $ 1.1 billion plan to increase Australia's innovation, including a renewed focus on promoting science, maths and computing in schools.

Washington — Warning that American schoolchildren are in danger of becoming «stragglers in a world of technology,» a national commission on science, mathematics, and technology education has proposed a 12 - year plan that would significantly increase the emphasis on these subjects in schools and would cost the federal government $ 1.5 billion in new money during the first year of its implementation.

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.

Another facet of the federal effort to boost education is a push to increase the number of students who are proficient in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Under President Eisenhower, the National Defense Education bill was enacted that both increased the federal investment in math and science education and created the National Student Loan program providing low interest loans to the increasing number of students pursuing a college education.

In October 2015, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) established an Interagency Policy Group to identify policies and practices to increase diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce both in the Federal Government and in federally - funded institutions of higher education, by reducing the impact of implicit and explicit bias in their respective recruitment, hiring, development and training proScience and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) established an Interagency Policy Group to identify policies and practices to increase diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce both in the Federal Government and in federally - funded institutions of higher education, by reducing the impact of implicit and explicit bias in their respective recruitment, hiring, development and training proscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce both in the Federal Government and in federally - funded institutions of higher education, by reducing the impact of implicit and explicit bias in their respective recruitment, hiring, development and training processes.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

Two major federal climate science reports — one on climate change - induced extreme weather, the other on increasing difficulties in dealing with climate impacts on federal lands — were released last week with two nearly opposite communication strategies.

The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a poorly - researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down from 1998 until 2012 with little change in globally - averaged surface temperatures — a direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's temperature has been constantly increasing.

Under an expanded ERF policy the cost to the federal budget would increase sharply, and even more so if Australia adopted tougher targets in line with the science.