Sentences with phrase «leading federal research agencies»

«So last year they asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to ask the six leading federal research agencies for data on their applicant pools.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the lead federal agency on the report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produced Volume 1 of the 4th National Climate Assessment.

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of AgricFederal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agricfederal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. federal agencies have taken the lead in funding research in computational neuroscience, and the majority of government funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Previously he served as Senior Program Director for Evaluation and Policy Research at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organiResearch at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organiresearch, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organizations.

Academic reputations hinge on an ability to get work through peer review and into leading journals; university presses employ peer review to decide which books they're willing to publish; and federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health use peer review to weigh the merits of applications for federal research grants.

The scientists were led by the National Science Foundation, which is an independent American federal agency that supports vital research and education in science and engineering.

He has led research studies and service evaluations for numerous federal and state agencies and foundations in the area of children's services.