Sentences with phrase «increasing federal research»

He said increasing federal research dollars to fight the disease «is both going to be certainly one of my priorities, but I also think it will be National Institutes of Health's priority as we move into the coming years.

«The suite of bills already passed would increase federal research & development (R&D) funding by an estimated 2.1 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the House and 3.2 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the Senate, slightly above the rate of inflation,» Holt noted.

«The suite of bills already passed would increase federal research & development (R&D) funding by an estimated 2.1 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the House and 3.2 % above FY 2016 levels in the Senate, slightly above the rate of inflation,» AAAS wrote, citing objective analysis completed by the association's R&D Budget and Policy Program.

If passed, the legislation would substantially increase federal research into threats from hormone - disrupting chemicals and require the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the environment.

Not exact matches

The decline in the formation of new businesses (with one to four employees) in areas where student debt increased by 2.7 percent over a decade, according to 2015 research by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

What do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research?

Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

She also served on the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) Advocacy Steering Committee to help build a strong nationwide presence for the food allergy community in the public policy arena, and to actively seek to increase federal funding for food allergy research.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

Importantly, this research shows that these trends are the same even for minimum wage increases implemented during weak economic periods, such as the 2009 federal minimum wage increase.

NBCC's mission includes increasing awareness about breast cancer, training people to be grassroots activists and increasing federal funding for research.

By Sean Ryan A proposal to use a federal gasoline tax increase to pay for carbon - emissions research is frustrating builder associations that want the money for highway construction.

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.

The federal funds for the internationalization of higher education and research have been increased by 140 % between the 1998 budget and the 2002 draft budget.

But he has also spoken generally in favor of increasing funding for federal research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which he would oversee if confirmed to the job by the Senate.

The report's «highest priority recommendation,» a doubling of federal research funding, could create a «commensurate increase in the demand for researchers.»

The federal government plans to increase funding to institutions researching 3 - D printing, a technology the White House hopes will boost U.S. manufacturing

Overall, two - thirds of next year's proposed $ 6 billion increase in overall federal research spending — a 4 % boost to $ 152 billion — would come from mandatory sources.

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.

Congress is on track to increase federal spending for research and development programs by at least $ 3.1 billion in fiscal 2017 over the previous year, a noteworthy boost at a time when overall federal discretionary spending is slated to remain flat, according to AAAS» latest analysis of federal spending programs.

The report also calls for a 10 % annual increase in federal funding for basic research.

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.

A decade of flat funding by federal agencies, declines in in - house research programs in industry, and an academic research culture that relies upon an ever - increasing number of trainees to execute research have flooded the market with highly trained scientists competing for few permanent positions that would utilize their skills.

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.

What followed were not cuts in federal research funding, but sustained increases.

Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal agencies will result in funding cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's research enterprise.

With an aging population placing increasing demands on entitlement programs like Social Security, and likely federal spending increases for defense and infrastructure programs, budgets for scientific research could come under intense pressure.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

Among its assorted recommendations — from supporting state syringe exchange programs to increasing federal funding for neurobiology research — the panel suggests that FDA dramatically expand the types of evidence it requires from companies to show that an opioid is safe and effective, both before and after it gets market approval.

The German federal government began blazing a trail last week by increasing the 2002 federal budget for the education and research ministry (BMBF) by 0.23 billion Euro -LRB-?)

Federal food policy changes led to increased availability of healthy foods at smaller urban corner stores in Baltimore, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

Brazilian scientists from the D'Or Institute of Research and Education (IDOR) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) found that ADHD kids and their mothers are more likely to have shorter telomeres, a hallmark of cellular aging, which is associated with increased risk for chronic diseases and conditions like diabetes, obesity and cancer.

«Increasing background ozone from rising Asian emissions leaves less room for local production of ozone before the federal standard is violated,» said lead author Meiyun Lin, a research scholar in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University and a scientist at GFDL.

First - term Democrat from Massachusetts cites own work in making the case for increased federal support for research

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

The Obama administration will ask for a 6 % increase in federal spending on research and development, according to a White House fact sheet previewing today's budget request to Congress for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins in October.

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.

Looking forward, the RAND team recommends that the federal government increase funding for gun research to levels comparable to federal research investments in other significant causes of death and injury, such as automobile accidents.

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).

In addition to her educational outreach activities, Scott has advocated for increased medical research funding with federal legislators in Washington, DC.

«With the recent increase in federal funding to support research on the Zika virus, we are optimistic that we will be able to combat this epidemic swiftly.»

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.

Both McCain and Obama voted in 2006 and 2007 for bills that would increase federal funding for the research, but President Bush vetoed those plans.

In addition, the Foundation is committed to raising awareness, education and increased federal funding and support for SMA research broadly.

However, the suit went to the Court of Appeals, which reversed the dismissal when it ruled that Sherley and Deisher were harmed by Obama's policy; as they only worked with adult stem cells, theoretically they would have to deal with increased federal funding competition (due to an increase in hESC research).

The scientists claimed that, because they used adult stem cells exclusively in their research, the new rules would increase competition for federal research dollars, thereby affecting their ability to obtain funding.

«For any state to invest in stem cell research, it increases the likelihood that investigators in that state can compete for federal funding,» Landis said.

Throughout her life, Milly tirelessly and effectively advocated for increased federal investments in PD research.