Sentences with phrase «other federal science»
Unlike other federal science agencies, NOAA hasn't been authorized by law.
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Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.
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.
But, the article notes, «The National Science Foundation and other federal providers aren't doing a lot better.»
Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Regarding Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines [March 28, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Bill Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]
As a fellow, he works on Big Data policies and programs, participates in a coordination and leadership group on cyberinfrastructure investments, and works to advance the data - intensive science and high performance computing communities supported by NSF and other Federal agencies.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific and engineering societies on Tuesday underscored the implication of reports that staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were directed to avoid using seven words, including «science - based» and «evidence - based,» in federal budget docScience and other scientific and engineering societies on Tuesday underscored the implication of reports that staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were directed to avoid using seven words, including «science - based» and «evidence - based,» in federal budget docscience - based» and «evidence - based,» in federal budget documents.
The other major federal funder for alternative energy research is National Science Foundation.
As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.
A new interactive online tool, launched today by AAAS, makes it easier to spot U.S. federal funding trends such as the continuing rise in mandatory spending for programs such as Social Security with spending levels set by law, a shift which has left a smaller percentage of the overall federal budget for science and other so - called «discretionary» expenses.
The Big Data Research and Development Initiative pledges $ 200 million for NIH, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies to support data collection, analysis, and dispersion.
The day - long event was organized by the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and drew more than 200 people, including representatives from the U.S. State Department and other federal agencies, as well as leaders from UNESCO and The World Academy of Sciences in Trieste, Italy, and the Costa Rican ambassador to the United States.
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 seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month * by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.
Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.
But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.
Most of the other federal posts responsible for managing science and technology programs also remain vacant.
There are other ways to try to create incentives for greater support of science by industry, by philanthropy; and those ought to be pursued too because I think the record shows that we simply can't depend entirely on the Federal government — especially in view of the kind of fluctuations that result from either depressions in the national treasury; that result from reductions and tax revenues; or the expenditures sometimes unexpected like Katrina; or unfortunate expenditures like the ones we are spending now in Iraq.
As chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science, the Maryland senator has fought for federal science funding through the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and Science, the Maryland senator has fought for federal science funding through the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and science funding through the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and Science Foundation, and others.
«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and techScience and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and techscience and technology.
Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.
In a keynote speech at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science, Biden also eviscerated the current trend toward science denial by President Donald Trump's administration and other national leaders, and issued a passionate call to double or even triple federal science fScience, Biden also eviscerated the current trend toward science denial by President Donald Trump's administration and other national leaders, and issued a passionate call to double or even triple federal science fscience denial by President Donald Trump's administration and other national leaders, and issued a passionate call to double or even triple federal science fscience funding.
Their argument is much the same: Who else, other than the federal government, can ensure that this science for the public good is reliably carried out?
(Sec. 4004) Requires the NSF Director to establish a clearinghouse, in collaboration with four - year institutions of higher education, industries, and federal agencies that employ science - trained personnel, to share program elements used in successful professional science master's degree programs and other advanced degree programs related to science, mathematics, technology, and engineering.
Maine has never won a high share of federal science funding compared to other states, ranking 46th nationally in pulling in federal R&D money.
\ n \ nIn other words this is a political attempt, based on a technicality, to advance science in the field by getting the US Administration to greatly expand the number of human ES - cell lines that can be used under federal funding.
The discussion followed the familiar lines expressed by committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) and others at least since 2013 that 13 federal agencies are involved in climate change / earth science research, while NASA uniquely is responsible for space exploration.
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.
In a letter this morning addressed to Reps. Doc Hastings and Ed Markey, the Committee chairman and ranking member, Grijalva urges the Committee to determine whether Indur Goklany, the DOI Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy, received money he was promised by the Heartland Institute for writing a chapter in a book focused on climate policy in apparent violation of federal rules, among other issues.
The Council discussed membership, the Society's peer - reviewed journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), programming at the annual meeting, the usefulness of preprints, new schemes in federal science funding, and many other issues of importance to ASCB members.
«I would still strongly encourage any child interested in science to pursue their dream and passion, but I hope that our current and future investment in NIH and other federal research support agencies will rise above any branch of government to help our next generation reach their potential and dreams.»
Other federal organizations, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, already have teams thinking about synthetic biology and the risks of amateur sfederal organizations, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, already have teams thinking about synthetic biology and the risks of amateur sFederal Bureau of Investigation, already have teams thinking about synthetic biology and the risks of amateur science.
While we are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we can also provide letters of collaboration for proposals to other federal scientific research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Energy (DoE), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Federal funding and direction routinely lead to research and development breakthroughs in science, medicine, and defense, among other fields.
(Other federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and Arts and Humanities endowments have engaged for decades in the funding, development, evaluation, and encouragement of curricula.)
In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.
The federal science agency will provide $ 855,668 to the researchers, who will explore ways that computers and other «information - handling technologies»...
For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.
The Louisiana law requiring that «creation science» be taught alongside evolution theory is unconstitutional because it «promotes the beliefs of some theistic sects to the detriment of others,» a federal district judge ruled this month.
The Education Department, along with other federal agencies and private funders, earlier this year awarded grants for the development of standards in science, history, and the arts.
Federal policies and programs must be strengthened to support local magnet schools, public military academies and other schools that provide educational opportunities through specialized curricula and unique learning experiences in science, technology, engineering, the arts, mathematics and other areas related to a well - rounded education.
The Local Wellness Committee will update or modify this LWP based on the results of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's annual self - assessment, the USDA triennial administrative review, and on other variables, including if / when HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's health priorities change; the community's health needs change; the wellness goals are met; new health science arises, new technology emerges; and new federal or state guidance / standards are issued.
''... Public university leaders working through the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative will catalyze action across sectors — state and federal governments, the business community, the K - 12 community, and others to seriously undertake the challenging effort of adequately preparing teachers to teach science and mathematics in the 21st century..Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative will catalyze action across sectors — state and federal governments, the business community, the K - 12 community, and others to seriously undertake the challenging effort of adequately preparing teachers to teach science and mathematics in the 21st century..science and mathematics in the 21st century..»
ASCD and more than 25 other major education organizations, representing a wide array of subject areas, are promoting consensus recommendations for how federal education policy can better support subject disciplines beyond reading, math, and science.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Federal authorities in Cleveland are examining an Illinois company that manages the local Horizon Science Academy schools and several others in the Midwest, and they have seized documents from several locations in the past week, including here in Ohio.
Educational loan forgiveness and cancellation programs are available at the state and federal levels for graduates who teach in low income or underrepresented schools; for those who teach math, science, and special education; for those who teach in agricultural and life sciences and nursing; and for those who plan to teach in other teacher shortage areas as defined by individual states.
Leading Companies, Federal Agencies and Others Host Science Festival on the Mall: More than 850 corporations, trade associations, federal agencies, colleges and universities and 300 K - 12 schools will come together October 23 - 24, 2010 in downtown DC to host one of the largest science and engineering festivals ever put on in the United Federal Agencies and Others Host Science Festival on the Mall: More than 850 corporations, trade associations, federal agencies, colleges and universities and 300 K - 12 schools will come together October 23 - 24, 2010 in downtown DC to host one of the largest science and engineering festivals ever put on in the United Science Festival on the Mall: More than 850 corporations, trade associations, federal agencies, colleges and universities and 300 K - 12 schools will come together October 23 - 24, 2010 in downtown DC to host one of the largest science and engineering festivals ever put on in the United federal agencies, colleges and universities and 300 K - 12 schools will come together October 23 - 24, 2010 in downtown DC to host one of the largest science and engineering festivals ever put on in the United science and engineering festivals ever put on in the United States.
But when you look at today's levels of federal investment in R&D (and large - scale demonstration) in energy sciences, compared to levels on other fronts that have mattered to society, do you see that as remotely sufficient?
The Department of Energy is trying to stimulate more breakthroughs, but with a paltry pot of money compared to federal investments in other areas of science that matter to society.