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No Stimulus for Korean Research?
A South Korean scientist frets in the JoongAng Daily about the country's lack of support for basic research....
March 26, 2009 4:27 PM
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NIH Braces for Stimulus Impact, Children's Study Overruns
The mood was mostly upbeat today at a House of Representatives Appropriations Committee hearing to discuss how the National Institutes of Health is spending its $10 billion windfall in the...
Science's Celtic Tiger Tries to Keep Roaring
The Republic of Ireland’s economy boomed during the 1990s and the early part of this decade on the back of infrastructure funding from the European Union and inward investment from...
March 24, 2009 4:33 PM
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Stimulus Smiles on Autism Research
So far, the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation have said they plan to spend the bulk of the stimulus money on already-reviewed research projects proposed by investigators....
$50 Million Texas Biomedical Building Stirs Debate
Some Texas lawmakers are crying foul after the governor diverted $50 million from a fund designed to help state businesses close tech deals to Texas A&M for a new science...
DOE Allocates $1.2 Billion in Stimulus Funding to Labs and Universities
It's time to call in the bulldozers at many of the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Officials at the 10 laboratories have been waiting, wish lists in hand, to hear...
March 20, 2009 9:15 AM
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White House Nabs Science Money Whiz
The science wonkocracy knows well the work of Kei Koizumi, Washington, D.C.'s, premier research budget number cruncher. That includes newly confirmed science adviser John Holdren, who's hired Koizumi away from...
March 19, 2009 3:23 PM
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Stimulu$ Funds to Follow Soon at Energy, NSF
The National Science Foundation is only a few weeks away from awarding the first portion of its $3 billion in stimulus funding, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science...
March 19, 2009 3:16 PM
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Republicans Interested in Conflicts of Interest
Scientists who receive grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not be trusted to “self-regulate” on matters involving a potential conflict of interest, suggests a letter...
March 5, 2009 7:06 PM
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Key Lawmaker Backs Growing the Science Budget
U.S. scientists would love to see funding levels in the stimulus package become the baseline for federal research agencies rather than a one-time bonus for their favorite agency. Today, they...
March 2, 2009 8:18 AM
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Ocean Lobby: NOAA Budget on Course, Smooth Sailing
A month or two ago, the science community was fearing the dreaded continuing resolution for a number of science agencies—a flat budget for the rest of 2009 basically following the...
February 27, 2009 12:15 PM
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White House Requests New Funding for Autism
Autism research will get a funding boost if U.S. President Barack Obama has his way. In his budget overview released yesterday, Obama requested $211 million as part of the Department...
February 27, 2009 10:50 AM
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Obama and Yucca
President Barack Obama has come through on a campaign promise to oppose plans to build a storage vault for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Yesterday's budget request scales...
February 26, 2009 5:26 PM
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Cap and Trade and the Budget
Chris Mooney makes an interesting point about the $15 billion the 2010 budget assumes a cap-and-trade system to battle greenhouse emissions will deliver to the Treasury next year: So now,...
February 26, 2009 10:25 AM
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2010 Science Budget ... Big But Sketchy Numbers
In a decidedly old-school style for the digitally minded Obama Administration, this morning the Government Printing Office released a booklet on the 2010 budget. (The sparse document will be released online...
February 25, 2009 2:48 PM
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And Win the War on Cancer, Too
In addition to saving the banks, shoring up the cratered real estate market, and capping greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama had another ambitious goal for the stimulus package in...
We're Already on Top, Mr. President
In his speech last night to Congress, President Barack Obama promised that his education policies would help more people attend college, ensuring that "by 2020, America will once again have...
Obama on Energy: "We Will Lead Again"
In his "State of the Union"-like address just now, President Barack Obama touted the stimulus package's multibillion-dollar boost to renewable energy research, deployment, and infrastructure, as well as basic research...
February 24, 2009 12:07 PM
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Federal Science Budget Schedule 101
It's a confusing week with essentially three budgets crashing into one another. Here are the basics: Last week, President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package, with roughly $21...
February 24, 2009 8:36 AM
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Good Day at the Office (of Science)
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science comes out a big winner in the draft budget for 2009 formulated by the U.S. Congress yesterday. But a closer look shows that...
February 23, 2009 5:10 PM
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2009 Looking Sweet for the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation would get a 6.7% increase, to $6.49 billion. Although that's half of its overall requested boost for this year, it comes on top of a $3...
February 23, 2009 4:28 PM
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2009 Budget: Winners and Losers
After last week's stellar stimulus bill for U.S. federally funded research, science fans have a mixed result coming from Capitol Hill this afternoon. The House of Representatives released the draft...
Energy Research Budget a Walk on the Wild Side, Says Official
Mild-mannered Anna Palmisano, head of DOE's biological and environmental research arm, said at an advisory board meeting yesterday that "the past 3 weeks have been as wild as any as...
Museums and Zoos Go Ape Over Stimulus Stigma
By signing the $787 billion stimulus bill Tuesday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which draws part of its power from rooftop solar panels built by a local...
February 18, 2009 3:21 PM
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Why a Science Booster Couldn't Support the Stimulus Bill
No House Republican voted for the $787 billion stimulus package that President Barack Obama signed into law yesterday. But there's at least one who was tempted to do so...
February 13, 2009 2:41 PM
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$10,000,000,000.00 for the National Institutes of Health
In the economic stimulus package, the biggest winner among U.S. science agencies is probably the National Institutes of Health, which will receive $8.2 billion for research. Another $500 million will...
February 12, 2009 9:40 AM
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Science Headed for Big Stimulus Boost
After years of flat budgets, U.S. scientists have been hoping for the federal government to boost their prospects in a rough economy. If a fact sheet released late yesterday by...
Harvard Science Expansion Slowed?
The recession seems to be making even Harvard University, with its massive endowment, reconsider its ambitious expansion plans. The new science complex now under construction in Allston—across the river from...
February 9, 2009 11:02 AM
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Science Pared in Latest Senate Stimulus Package
Biomedical research trumped other science as U.S. senators labored over the weekend on a $820 billion stimulus package awaiting a vote tomorrow. The bipartisan compromise, proposed by moderate Senators Ben...
February 6, 2009 10:54 AM
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Austrian Scientists: Shillings
The great and good of Austrian science are passing around a petition to confront the government over funding cuts announced late last year....
On Conflicts of Interest, Grassley Not Conflicted
Continuing his quest to bring to light researchers' conflicts of interest, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has introduced an amendment to the stimulus package the Senate is considering that would...
February 4, 2009 5:03 PM
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On Regs, Obama Thinking Out of the Box
Cass Sunstein, the Obama Administration's choice to head a powerful White House office overseeing all federal regulations, hasn't been confirmed yet, but he's already making his presence felt. His fingerprints...
February 4, 2009 10:35 AM
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Billions in Biomed Boosts?
Biomedical research may be headed for a big 2-year boost in the stimulus bill—more than even some lobbyists expected. In debate last night, the Senate agreed by voice vote to...
February 3, 2009 5:58 PM
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Congress Puts Off Decision on 2009 Budget
Figuring out how much the U.S. government will spend this year on science got a little more complicated today after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the 2009 spending...
January 29, 2009 3:27 PM
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Canadian Genomicists Lament Cuts
Researchers funded by Genome Canada, Canada’s preeminent funding body for large-scale genomics and proteomics research, are reacting with shock to news that the Canadian government is withdrawing funding from the...
January 29, 2009 1:46 PM
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Budget Squeeze Has Cali Ocean Mappers Feeling Lost
California marine scientists have encountered some rough seas lately, following the state finance department's decision last month to freeze all funding derived from the sale of bonds. That decision...
January 28, 2009 10:42 AM
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Canada Cuts Research Funding
Canadian scientists are afraid that the government's decision to cut funding to the main source of research grants will trigger a new brain drain to the United States. Prime Minister...
Obama Wants Big Money for Science Students
In his first presidential radio address on 24 January, Barack Obama announced that the Administration's proposed stimulus package working its way through Congress would "triple the number of fellowships in...
January 16, 2009 6:10 PM
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NIH's Bounty Split Between Bricks and Basic Science
Biomedical researchers will have the chance to apply for quick-hit, $1 million challenge grants as part of the funding that the National Institutes of Health is slated to receive under...
Biodefense Gets Its Billion
The stimulus package adds $900 million to the biodefense gravy train, which has received billions in federal funds since 2001. About $420 million of the money would go to the...
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