Sentences with phrase «of federal research dollars»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Based on the chart you have on Katusa Research of the U.S. dollar versus gold and in the wake of the Federal Reserve's inaction at its last meeting, what's your thesis for gold for the rest of 2015?

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.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

Major sources of federal climate research dollars include NASA's Earth Science program, NSF's Geosciences directorate, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s climate research programs, among others.

«Depending on whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, passage of the Scientific Research in the National Interest Act (HR 3293) is either a simple reminder that federal dollars should be spent wisely, or an unwise and unwarranted intrusion into NSF's grantsmaking process.»

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

But imagine the clout of the person who controlled the tens of billions dollars that the federal government currently spends on research and development.

Several House of Representatives lawmakers yesterday introduced a plan to make research papers produced with federal dollars freely available to the public.

When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»

Between 1986 and 1995, federal funding for biomedical research almost doubled, with half of those dollars allocated to academic research, and much of that portion allotted to medical schools.

The real action likely will be with countries such as China that are pumping money into projects with federal dollars, said Joe Ralko of IPAC - C02, a Canadian - based research organization.

DOD accounted for 12.3 % of the $ 40.1 billion in federal research dollars universities received in 2012, up from about 8 % a decade ago.

U.S. universities complain about the high cost of complying with rules to ensure that federal research dollars are being spent properly.

«It's important to have federal dollars in the game as a match,» says Thomas Van Arsdall, director of the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research.

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.

Republican budgetmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives signaled their support for basic research and their reluctance to invest federal dollars in applied research today in their markup of a bill that would set the budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) next year.

In effect, the federal government already made this decision around 2003, because its support of basic research has stagnated in constant dollars since then.

University administrators and faculty members have long complained that some of the never - ending stream of rules designed to ensure that precious federal research dollars are spent wisely are time - consuming, unnecessary, and occasionally even conflicting.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

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.

In the end, George Bush tried to split the difference with a partial ban that limited the kinds of embryonic stem cell research that could be paid for with federal dollars.

At several large research universities, including Johns Hopkins, the University of Washington, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, federal dollars comprised 80 percent of research spending.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

In education, the medical research model — using federal dollars to build a knowledge base within a community of experts — has manifestly failed.

What I would argue is that a much larger share of the federal education research dollars... should be devoted to helping states begin to use the data that they've been accumulating to start evaluating their own programs and policies.

A review of the research on Head Start and other preschool programs, with a rigorous consideration of the benefits claimed by these programs and an informed cost - benefit analysis, must therefore be undertaken before the federal government spends billions of dollars on a new, untested program.

In last week's State of the Union address, Obama promised more federal research and development dollars to fund more efficient vehicles but again emphasized his goal for 1 million EVs on the road by 2015.

DETROIT - With hundreds of millions of dollars of private and federal research work behind it, the Precept from General Motors, an experimental model to be introduced here Sunday, is probably the most expensive single car ever built.

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).

Such a dilemma brings to question the debate over government subsidies, as well as the billions of dollars in federal spending that gets dumped into the research well.

Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm... Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $ 1.7 billion today.

To date the federal government has invested on the order of $ 5 billion dollars in CCS research, including $ 4.8 billion under the Obama administration and millions of dollars during the Bush administration.

But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.

Because of such marginalization, some $ 42 billion dollars has been spent on ACW by the US federal government in the past 15 years — 90 % of all research dollars on the matter worldwide.

Though not exclusively an energy bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided for more than four billion dollars in federal tax credits to homeowners for energy efficiency improvements, authorized additional renewable energy and efficiency research and development, and called for reductions in diesel engine emissions.

«It has always been in their interest to portray global warming as alarming, and therefore in need of even more federal research dollars,» Michaels wrote.

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Arthur J. Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes that, «Careful academic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent on early childhood development provide extraordinary returns compared with investments in the public, and even private, sector.

Research by Pew has found that, though most states fund at least one of the evidence - based models identified in the federal criteria, the majority do not direct their dollars toward proven home visiting programs.