Sentences with phrase «science agency funding»

She also foresees language attached to science agency funding bills that prevents them from spending money on certain areas or types of projects.

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The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

Universities receive funding through the Joint Fire Science Program, which is jointly funded by the Interior Department and the Forest Service, and indirectly through other agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Defense Department's environmental research programs and NASA.

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Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences.

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This move would allow the agency to continue funding for several Earth Science missions slated for elimination in the request, including Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 (OCO - 3), Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), and Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder.

Former Senator (D — NY) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she «would increase funding for scientific research at agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation.»

Although definitions for each category exist (as outlined by the National Science Foundation in Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function: Fiscal Years 1995 - 1997), agencies are not always consistent in their reporting.

«[T] he increased reliance funding agencies place on [such] classic bibliometric indicators» as short - term citation metrics and journal impact measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the authors observe.

In the end, NASA funding didn't fare much better or worse than other science agencies.

But as can be seen in Figure 1, following the Recovery Act and some early growth in regular appropriations, [1] most major science agencies spent most of their time below pre-Obama funding levels.

Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (1R01NS091010 - 01, 1R01DC014690 - 01), Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO), Pew Charitable Trusts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, McKnight Foundation and New York Stem Cell Foundation.

The research was done in collaboration with Kyoto University and funded by the European Research Council, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

On January 21, AAAS sent a letter to the Office of Science and Technology Policy commenting on Public Acccess Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government.

Pearl's placement in 2002 at the National Science Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and enginScience Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and enginscience and engineering.

Raising the spending caps does not automatically mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.

The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.

The $ 1.3 - trillion spending deal boosts funding for nearly all science agencies, avoiding cuts the White House had proposed.

After returning to Argentina in late April, he has been finalizing recommendations to be presented in the fall detailing how Argentina will set up, design, fund, track and evaluate a science policy fellowship program that is expected to get underway in earnest with a pilot project placing five scientists in select agencies in 2018.

Among the largest deficits have been researchers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine — areas largely funded by high - spending agencies such as the Medical Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

In another important spending bill that funds science programs that Senate appropriators have not yet taken up, the House Appropriations Committee approved July 13 the fiscal 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies measure that would give NASA a $ 219 million boost above 2017 enacted science programs that Senate appropriators have not yet taken up, the House Appropriations Committee approved July 13 the fiscal 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies measure that would give NASA a $ 219 million boost above 2017 enacted Science, and Related Agencies measure that would give NASA a $ 219 million boost above 2017 enacted levels.

The success of these initial experiments will be critical in demonstrating the long - term viability of HAARP to the agencies funding the efforts along with the navy: the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.

The European Science Foundation has been in existence as an association of the national research funding agencies for more than a quarter of a century concentrating on coordination mechanisms and support.

Science funding agencies are letting students experience weightlessness in hopes of keeping them grounded in sScience funding agencies are letting students experience weightlessness in hopes of keeping them grounded in sciencescience.

NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and other science funding agencies are expanding adventurous undergraduate research opportunities in the United States and other countries in an effort to encourage students to choose careers in science and enginScience Foundation (NSF), and other science funding agencies are expanding adventurous undergraduate research opportunities in the United States and other countries in an effort to encourage students to choose careers in science and enginscience funding agencies are expanding adventurous undergraduate research opportunities in the United States and other countries in an effort to encourage students to choose careers in science and enginscience and engineering.

Although Framework makes up only 5 % of European science funding — national agencies pay the lion's share — the massive program sums up the challenge of weaving the research communities of the member states into a cohesive whole.

Because legislation ultimately affects the regulations and policies that scientists must follow, as well as the amount of funding available to scientists through support of the science agencies such as NIH, NSF, DOE, and NASA, Olsen says, «it is so critical to have a person in those offices who has a strong science background.

On returning to NSF from her 2 - year sabbatical, Olsen took on the challenge of overseeing the funding for the agency's science and technology centers.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

Competing for scarce funds with a myriad of other money - strapped domestic agencies, the civilian science agencies face the likelihood of budget cuts, some quite substantial.

The Louis Stokes Missouri Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), which includes each of the publicly funded baccalaureate - degree - offering institutions in the state and several state governmental agencies, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to begin a second 5 - year project.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administscience policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administScience Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

Hanging over the effective decrease in support proposed by the House of Representatives last week is the «sequester», a pre-programmed budget cut that research advocates say would starve US science - funding agencies.

The Jackpot's Consequences 3 April 2009 As science funding agencies begin to dispense the huge stimulus appropriation, opinions about its ultimate impact on early - career scientists are mixed.

Although no one doubts that the sequester would have a major impact on US science funding (see «Winners to losers»), no agencies have announced what they will do if it happens.

Funding agencies such as the National Science and Technology Board (a sponsor of Next Wave Singapore), the National Medical Research Council, and the Biomedical Research Council are already in place to oversee the appropriate granting of research funds.

Shaheen echoed Culberson's wish, saying that such an agreement is essential for providing NSF and other research agencies with the funding they need to maintain U.S. leadership in science.

This study was funded by grants from the Brazilian Financing Agency for Studies and Projects (FINEP 01 · 12 · 0514 · 00), Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Itaú Bank.

When we passed the America COMPETES Act, we bolstered basic funding at the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and we created ARPA - E, an innovative program, modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to encourage the pursuit of high - risk, high - reward renewable, clean energy technology development.

The Washington, D.C. — based group said in a statement: «The extreme funding cuts to science agencies and related programs included in the budget released today would harm America's research enterprise and our nation's leadership in scientific discovery.

If science agencies» funding returns to pre-stimulus levels or something close, then what happens to all those postdocs, technicians, and students hired for the interim?

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

In 2013, the agency invested $ 512 million in science funding, more than many nations in the region.

Some science and technology programs within agencies would see their funds increase, but the administration recommends extensive cuts to basic research overall.

Cattaneo hopes funding agencies will remember that science is also about exploring the unknown.