Sentences with phrase «of federal research»

Larry Lindsey, former economic advisor to George W. Bush, may be nominated for the position of Federal Research vice chairman, according to CNBC.

Larry Lindsey, former economic advisor to George W. Bush, may be nominated for the position of Federal Research vice chairman...

After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).

These rights figure in the Bayh - Dole Act of 1980, which is intended to ensure that valuable inventions reach the public by allowing universities and other recipient of federal research dollars to apply for patents that protect resulting inventions, and provide incentives for their development.

Crawley, the former Program Manager at the federal Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, a precursor to the Department of Energy), oversaw a significant portion of the federal research that went into the development of shale gas fracturing technologies.

Providing timely, comprehensive, and independent analyses of federal research & development funding trends since 1976.

He came to see opportunism in some of those loudly sounding the global warming alarm — especially as they raced to obtain a piece of the growing pot of federal research funding on the topic.

[Translate] Christopher Keane, The Conversation Impacts of federal research funding can be felt region - wide.

Gray's crusade against global warming «hysteria» began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old - fashioned stuff based on direct observation.

So there is a contradiction buried in the report: it recommends the initiation of a federal research program into albedo modification but does not give a plausible analysis of the circumstances in which the solar shield might be deployed.

-- The President shall establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all Federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of Federal global change research efforts.

Subtitle E: Adapting to Climate Change - Part 1: Domestic Adaptation - Subpart A: National Climate Change Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efforts.

One way to consider the question is to look back at the gush of federal research and development dollars that underpinned the actual space race (and led to a string of innovations that NASA says have produced far greater economic benefits than the research cost).

You pointed out that the amount of federal research funding for energy hasn't changed much since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

Funding for the new STOP School Violence Act, which funds school security and safety measures, will come at the expense of federal research about school safety.

Our point was precisely the value of federal research investment and support for the principle of ARPA - ED (of which I spoke approvingly to HELP).

In the panel conversation, the lack of good networks, better use of the emerging edtech incubators, the structure of federal research funding, the lag - time between learning and tangible results, and other things surfaced as additional facets of the problem.

OERI was responsible for a network of federal research labs and centers (there are ten federal R&D labs scattered across the country) where innovation was a watchword but where federal money went disproportionately for administration and dissemination rather than fresh ideas that made a mark.

Since the mid-1970s a few members of Congress from both parties have allied themselves with the largest beneficiaries of federal research contracts (the labs and centers) and ensured that these organizations receive a substantial portion of federal education funding for R&D.

Maris Vinovskis calls attention to the misuse of the federal research dollar in education and the need for a basic restructuring of the federal research enterprise.

As a researcher, he's generated about $ 14M of federal research grants over the last decade and published more than 200 papers.

He stays in close contact with his policymakers and sends them regular emails on the importance of federal research funding and other priorities.

The American Astronomical Society strongly endorses community - based priority setting as a fundamental component in the effective funding, management, and oversight of the federal research enterprise.

Universities receive some 10 % of their federal research dollars from the Department of Defense (DOD).

«We are having to answer inquiries from farmers every day of the week,» says Manfred Dambroth of the Federal Research Institute for Plant Breeding and Crop Husbandry in Brunswick.

Last year the national laboratories had a budget of DM2.5 billion (# 800 million)-- 29 per cent of the federal research budget.

And although setting science policy won't be part of his job, don't be surprised if he weighs in on one important aspect of federal research policy, that is, how to foster innovation to improve U.S. competitiveness.

Two spending panels in the U.S. House of Representatives that hold sway over large chunks of federal research spending will have new chairs when the 114th Congress convenes in January.

We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.

► On Thursday, new chairs for two House of Representatives spending panels that «hold sway over large chunks of federal research spending» were announced.

But a number of federal research programs and projects remain in Trump's cross hairs, including five of NASA's Earth science missions and various research, including on climate or environmental science, at the EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.

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

On 12 May Chairman Miller pushed through the House an amendment to the then - pending reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, which contains funding for a number of federal research agencies.

Without Washington's billions — about 126.5 of them this year — America's university laboratories and a vast network of federal research centers would wither, if not collapse.

During the Clinton administration, the Pentagon's dominance of federal research funds was throttled back to about a fifty - fifty balance with civilian studies.

AAAS» R&D Budget and Policy Program has been providing independent analyses of federal research and development programs for more than 40 years.

The SBIR program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy... one business at a time.

Not exact matches

The company was in the midst of negotiating a new round of financing and awaiting a cheque from the federal government's Scientific Research and Experimental Development program — both of which eventually came through.

But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education.

The economists who did the research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that average workers see most of their earnings grow during the first 10 years of their career and begin to stagnate after age 35.

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?

However, looking at DHS data on the arrest rate of illegal entrants at the Mexican border, Federico S. Mandelman, a research economist and associate policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Andrei Zlate, a senior financial economist in the Boston Fed's Risk and Policy Analysis Unit, found the numbers have been plummeting.

Western Australia has been allocated $ 21 million for research as part of the federal government's $ 363 million national funding package.

As a result, in the federal exchange's first week, only 1 percent of the 3.7 million people who tried to register were successful, according to the nonpartisan research firm Millward Brown Digital.

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

Dunderdale said the federal government would cover $ 280 million of the investment for research and marketing, while the province will kick in the rest.

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

Gekko Systems co-founder Elizabeth Lewis - Gray has been appointed chair of a new «mining growth centre», which is part of a $ 189 million federal government initiative designed to encourage commercially - focused research and development activity.

U.S. «The economy isn't in imminent danger of relapsing into recession [according to the Federal Reserve, most private economists and Wall Street strategists]... but the Economic Cycle Research Institute, an organization with an excellent track record, says the U. S. is actually heading into another recession.»