Sentences with phrase «spending on basic science»

The chunk of the federal budget that includes most of the U.S. government's spending on basic science would shrink by 10.5 % in 2018 under a plan outlined today by President Donald Trump and administration officials.

We need to increase the levels of spending on basic science, creating new knowledge, and make certain that the money is maximized, both in the direct costs of funding research and the indirect costs of the infrastructure, such as buildings and equipment.

One reason is that the public pays taxes that support much of the spending on basic science.

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I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

Markus Feuerer already had an MD when he went on to spend a further 3 years on a basic science project.

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

The debate about whether the federal government should spend money on basic research instead of giving more to applied research is an old one, said Melinda Baldwin, a lecturer in the history of science at Harvard University.

«This is really novel and inventive science, so we spent a lot of time on analysis, making sure the basics of the app were fine,» said Schreier, the vice president of the T - Labs innovation center.

Applied versus basic science — At the House science committee, several Republican lawmakers complained that DOE was putting too much emphasis on applied energy research in its spending plan for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins 1 October.

The House Committee on Appropriations» version of the so - called energy and water bill for fiscal year 2016, which begins 1 October, would boost spending by 0.6 % for DOE's basic research arm, the Office of Science, to $ 5.10 billion.

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

That number includes everything spent on basic and applied science as well as the development of new technologies and the construction of facilities.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

And the eGuide is a 33 - page basic weight - loss eGuide, filled with science backed tips that I've spent months researching about the latest stuff on diet and exercise.

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

Revkin: I spent 20 years focused on the basic physics and geoscience of this... But I've spent the last five or six years focused on the social science.