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March 12, 2010 1:36 PM
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MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director
The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). ScienceInsider has learned that Subra...
March 4, 2010 11:14 AM
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UPDATED: New Study Suggests Little Change Under Obama On Science Politicization
Has President Barack Obama pulled off his pledge to boost integrity in government science, as he promised a year ago? A new study (see p. 89) says yes and...
February 24, 2010 5:25 PM
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White House Space Plans Under Fire
A Congressional panel led by Bill Nelson, the influential Democratic senator from Florida, flayed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden this afternoon over the Administration's proposal to cancel NASA's $3 billion...
February 24, 2010 4:49 PM
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Holdren Takes Lumps From House Panel on Scientific Integrity
Presidential science adviser John Holdren found himself in some hotter-than-usual water today during a congressional hearing on the Administration's proposed 2011 research budget. Legislators from both sides of the...
February 24, 2010 2:38 PM
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Obama Errs on Research Number
Speaking last spring at the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama said he hoped that someday the country would spend 3% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on research...
February 23, 2010 3:53 PM
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The Latest Buzz: Orszag Budgets for Caffeine Genetic Marker
Peter Orszag, the high-energy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently shared some good news with Politico. No, he hasn't solved the country's economic problems....
February 10, 2010 1:24 PM
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Top U.S. Climate Negotiator: IPCC Woes "Shouldn't" Slow Emission Efforts
Speaking yesterday in Washington, D.C., U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern was asked whether recent questions about the accuracy of certain statements in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
February 9, 2010 12:45 PM
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Michelle Obama's War on Childhood Obesity Starts Now
First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major initiative on childhood obesity, one of her signature topics. The carefully orchestrated rollout—Obama has been foreshadowing her plan for over a...
February 3, 2010 1:09 PM
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Is Obama Scaling Back Cap-and-Trade Goals?
A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap-and-trade system to regulate the emissions of...
February 1, 2010 12:35 PM
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Obama Underscores Science's Gilded Status
In remarks on the budget this morning yet to be posted online, President Barack Obama made clear why science fares well in an otherwise austere budget year: We also...
February 1, 2010 10:56 AM
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UPDATED AGAIN: Science Triumphs in Obama's 2011 Budget Request
Wow. A first, quick look at what President Barack Obama wants to spend next year on science shows across-the-board increases for research and training. Those gains come despite the...
January 31, 2010 9:16 AM
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Encouraging Clues on Tomorrow's Budget for Research Fans
The New York Times offers vague hints about good news for supporters of scientific research in the budget that will be released at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Given the lack...
January 13, 2010 11:31 AM
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Panel Calls on U.S. Agencies to Require Free Access to Research Papers
A diverse group of scientific publishers, librarians, and university officials has come together to endorse a once-controversial idea: that all federal research agencies should require that papers published by...
December 18, 2009 9:38 AM
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Obama's Speech in Copenhagen: Right at China
President Barack Obama's speech in Copenhagen included some unexpected additions in which he subtly pushed China to change its position on "transparency" of emissions cuts, as the United States...
December 17, 2009 7:32 PM
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Exclusive: Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, ScienceInsider has learned....
December 15, 2009 5:05 PM
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Obama's Oceans Policy Emphasizes Science
The White House has unveiled its overall approach for improving ocean planning. In a report released 14 December, the Ocean Policy Task Force sketched out how nine new regional...
December 9, 2009 4:11 PM
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National Institutes of Health to Get 2.3% Boost in 2010
Biomedical lobbyists say they are satisfied with a $692 million increase for the National Institutes of Health in 2010 approved yesterday by a combined House of Representatives and Senate...
December 9, 2009 1:28 PM
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NASA to Get Administration's Spending Request for 2010
NASA has received the full $18.7 billion requested by the White House, including $4.5 billion for science. But House of Representatives and Senate conferees, releasing a report yesterday on 2010...
December 4, 2009 11:27 AM
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2011 Budgets Look Tight for NSF and DOE Science
Early word on President Barack Obama's plans for two important science agencies in 2011 is that White House budget officials are sticking to their guns—and that's bad news for...
November 30, 2009 5:38 PM
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Government Guidance for Gene Firms to Prevent Bioterrorism
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a set of guidelines for how providers of custom-made DNA sequences should do business. The proposal is the first comprehensive...
November 25, 2009 11:55 AM
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Breaking: Obama Will Visit Copenhagen Climate Talks, Announce 17% Emissions Cut
The big news this morning is that President Obama will attend the Copenhagen meeting and probably announce a U.S. commitment, contingent on Congressional agreement, of a 17% cut in...
October 26, 2009 10:55 AM
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PCAST Tackles Science Education
Does the United States need another high-powered panel recommending ways to improve how students learn science and math? The President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) thinks...
October 8, 2009 2:41 PM
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Congress Goes Easy on Two Science Agency Nominees
The nominees to head the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the Department of Energy breezed through their joint Senate confirmation hearing...
October 8, 2009 11:15 AM
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Obama Honors Science Medalists, Present and Future
President Barack Obama spent time yesterday looking at the stars—both real and those in the scientific firmament. In a formal ceremony in the East Room of the White House,...
September 30, 2009 2:11 PM
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Obama Announces $5 Billion in NIH Grants; Cancer, Autism, Heart Disease Named as Targets
President Barack Obama paid a visit to the National Institutes of Health this morning to announce that the agency has given out $5 billion in stimulus money for over 12,000...
September 23, 2009 5:12 PM
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Meet Obama's Head Energy Research Gambler
Last week, the White House nominated Arun Majumdar to lead ARPA-E, the risk-taking blue-sky energy research shop at the Department of Energy. Majumdar is a professor at the University...
September 22, 2009 6:58 PM
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Three Answers and Three Questions on China and Climate
The biggest news coming out of the one-day U.N. General Assembly summit on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions...
September 3, 2009 5:17 PM
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Obama Keeps Head of Nuclear Weapons Program
The Obama Administration announced today that it will retain Thomas D'Agostino as head of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. The decision was met with dismay by many in the...
September 2, 2009 5:59 PM
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No Augustine Report Yet
A spokesperson for the Office of Science and Technology Policy said today that the White House has not received a report from the panel reviewing NASA's plans for human space...
September 1, 2009 2:07 PM
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Lost in Space: The Latest Casualty in Reviewing Science for Obama
See an update to this item here.The much-ballyhooed report on the future of the U.S. human space program was submitted today to the White House. Or so rumor has it....
August 14, 2009 5:00 PM
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Dog Days of Augustine for U.S. Space Panel
The chair of a blue-ribbon panel reviewing the U.S. human space program briefed senior Obama Administration science officials today on what's expected to be a frank assessment of NASA's choices....
August 7, 2009 12:24 PM
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Collins Confirmed as NIH Director
The Senate today confirmed geneticist Francis Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health. A Senate committee had approved the nomination of the former NIH genome institute director on...
August 4, 2009 2:54 PM
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Obama Hopes New GI Bill Will Produce More STEM Workers
President Barack Obama hopes that a new bill that will provide college tuition for veterans and other service members will boost the number of homegrown scientists and engineers in the...
July 15, 2009 1:50 PM
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DOD Dominates Presidential Early-Career Awards
The Department of Defense has claimed the largest share of a prestigious presidential award for young scientists, a change from previous years and part of a broader effort to build...
July 13, 2009 2:21 PM
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Obama Nominates Rural Health Specialist as Surgeon General
The White House has nominated an African American doctor from Alabama as Surgeon General of the United States. Regina Benjamin is the founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre...
July 10, 2009 9:25 AM
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McNutt Named to Lead U.S. Geological Survey
President Barack Obama has nominated a prominent oceanographer to lead the U.S. Geological Survey. Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing,...
July 9, 2009 3:10 PM
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Report Urges Fewer Restrictions on Skilled Immigrants to U.S.
An expert panel convened by the Council on Foreign Relations has recommended increasing the number of foreign students and skilled workers allowed to enter the United States as part of...
July 8, 2009 4:59 PM
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White House to Nominate Collins as NIH Director
It's official: The White House intends to tap geneticist Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. President Barack Obama's announcement today ends months of speculation that Collins, leader...
July 8, 2009 3:11 PM
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Finally, An NIH Director
This afternoon, the White House will nominate geneticist Francis Collins to be director of the National Institutes of Health, administration sources say....
June 29, 2009 5:38 PM
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Prez Nixes Power-Wasting Lights
Energy efficiency got a moment to bask in the sun of presidential attention this morning. With the Senate poised to take up climate legislation, President Barack Obama took the opportunity...
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