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House Science Committee Holds Hearing on FY 2021 Research and Development Budget Request
On February 27, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing to review the Administrationās fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget request for research and development (see COSSAās analysis of the Presidentās budget request). Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), was the committeeās only witness and discussed the administrationās priorities across federal science agencies. Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) expressed concern for proposed cuts to research funding at the National Science foundation (NSF), NASA, the Department of Energy, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In her opening…
2016 Presidential Candidatesā Science Policy Platforms
Over the last year and a half, presidential candidates have provided hints as to what their science policy priorities would be if they were to win. Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released details of her āInitiative on Technology and Innovationā, which includes commitments to grow the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the research budgets at the Department of Energy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While Secretary Clintonās published positions related to science primarily focus on computer science and technology, in response to a questionnaire from the Scientific American, Secretary Clinton…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 35 Issue 6
Featured News Recap of the 2016 COSSA Annual Meeting COSSA in Action Social Science Advocates Take Capitol Hill COSSA Presents Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson with Distinguished Service Award Congressional News House Subcommittee Discusses FY 2017 NSF Budget, Funding for All Disciplines of Science NIH Makes Annual Appearance Before House Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Federal Agency & Administration News DARPA Announces Next Generation Social Science Program; Abstracts Due March 31 HHS Seeks Members for Healthy People 2030 Advisory Body Publications & Community Events Friends of IES Briefing Highlights Research on Supporting Students with Disabilities Transition to Adulthood Funding Opportunity Announcements COSSA Member…
Funding Opportunity Announcements
AHRQ: AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Health IT Safety (NOT-HS-16-009) DARPA: Next Generation Social Science (NGS2) (DARPA-BAA-16-32) NIJ: Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence (NIJ-2016-9091) NIH: NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5) (RFA-RM-16-006) NIMH: Using the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Approach to Understand Psychosis (R21) (PAR-16-135), (R01) (PAR-16-136) NCI: Cancer Research Education Grants Program to Promote Diversity – Research Experiences (R25) (PAR-16-138), (R25) (PAR-16-139) NIGMS: Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (R35) (RFA-GM-17-002) NIH/AHRQ: Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01) (NOT-CA-16-025), (R21) (NOT-CA-16-026)Ā [NCI, AHRQ, NCCIH, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIAAA,…
Funding Opportunity Announcements
NIJ: Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections (NIJ-2016-9086) NIJ: Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the Presidentās Task Force on 21st Century Policing (NIJ-2016-9095) NIJ: Research on Bias Crimes (NIJ-2016-8979) NIJ: FY16 Visiting Fellows Program (NIJ-2016-8890) IARPA: Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation (CREATE) (IARPA-BAA-15-11) Back to this issueās table of contents.
White House Hosts Conference on BRAIN Initiative
On September 30, the White House hosted a conference on President Obamaās BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative. The Initiative is a large-scale effort to provide researchers with important insights to treat a variety of disorders, including Alzheimerās disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury, among others. Four agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have together committed more than $110 million to the Initiative in FY 2014 (see Update, April 7, 2014, pg. 26).
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