COSSA Washington Update
To keep its constituency informed, the Consortium produces a biweekly newsletter, the COSSA Washington Update, that covers:
- Federal policies and debates relevant to social and behavioral scientists
- Sources of federal support for research
- The administration’s funding request for each fiscal year in a special budget issue
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Volume 30 Index
December 14, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 22
- End-of-Session Tactics on Payroll Tax Cut Extension Stalls Omnibus Appropriations Bill
- NIH Director's Advisory Committee Examines Workforce and Diversity Issues
- Mary Bohman New Head of Economic Research Service
- Committee on Law and Justice Meeting Hears Laub, Focuses on Possible New Projects
- EU Proposes Horizon 2020 to Fund Research and Innovation: Includes Significant Emphasis on Societal Challenges
- GAO Examines Higher Ed Outcomes Across Different Types of Institutions
- Putting Disadvantaged Men Back to Work
- Briefing on Premature Births Includes Focus on Behavior Change in Pregnant Women and Doctors
- NSF's Law and Social Sciences Program Seeks Proposals from Law School Social Scientists
- New Opportunity to Enhance NSF-Census Research Coordination Network
- IIASA Seeks Young Scientists for 2012 Summer Program
November 21, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 21
- Minibus Clears Congress, Signed by President: Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, HUD, Transportation, and NSF Have FY 2012 Budgets
- NSF Announces CREATIV Initiative: Merit Review by Program Officers
- Lipinski Ensures Social Sciences' Inclusion in Natural Hazards Risk Reduction Act of 2011
- DBASSE Holds Meeting on Teaching SBE Sciences in K-12 Education
- AAMC: Behavioral and Social Science Foundations for Future Physicians
- IPCC Report on Managing Climate Change Adaptation Includes Human and Behavioral Factors
- Conservation Options for Farm Policy Explored at Forum
- Implications of the Economic Downturn for Health, Wealth, and Work at Older Ages - Applications Wanted
- NIH Director's Early Independence Awards
- NIDDK Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
- Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care
- Practical Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence in Primary Care
November 10, 2011 Volume 30 Issue 20-B
Summary - A Colloquium Celebrating COSSA's 30 Years of Advocacy - (PDF)
- The Changing Political Landscape: 1981-2011 - Thomas Mann
- Economic Well-Being - Charles Schulze
- Race and Ethnicity - James Jackson
- Crime Reduction - Al Blumstein
- Human Behavior and Environmental Change - Roberta Balstad
- Health and Behavior - Norman Anderson
- Cora Marrett
- The SBE Sciences in STEM Education
- Felice Levine
- Steve Breckler
- Robert Hauser
- Shirley Malcom
- Changing Demographics and Immigration Policy
- Richard Alba
- William Frey
- Michael Olivas
- Linda Jacobsen
- Looking Ahead: New Tools, New Areas for Researc
- Robert Groves
- Myron Gutmann
- Robert Kaplan
- Subra Suresh
- Challenges for Social/Behavioral Science in the Deficit Driven Federal Budget Climate
- David Price
- John Laub
- Ruth Lee
- Wendy Baldwin
- Michael McPerson
- Kenneth Prewitt
November 7, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 20-A
- Two Issues of Update
- Senate Clears First Minibus Appropriations Bill: Expiration of CR and Report of Deficit Reduction Committee Looming
- SBE Releases "Rebuilding the Mosaic" Report
- NIH Director: 'Agency is at a Paradoxical Point'
- COSSA Responds to Office of Human Research Protection Proposal to Revise the Common Rule
- Ladson-Billings Delivers AERA's 2011 Brown Lecture
- Karen Cook Named to AAHRPP Board
October 24, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 19
- Senate Takes Up 'Minibus' FY 2012 Appropriations Bill
- Senate Confirms John Bryson as Secretary of Commerce
- NIH Seeks 'Feedback' on Managing in 'Science in Fiscally Challenging Times'
- COSSA Executive Director Speaks at University of Texas
- NIH CTSA/NCATS Integration Working Group Release Recommendations
- APSA Releases Task Force Report on Changing Demographics and Political Science
- CNSTAT Seminar Examines Impact of 'Great Recession'
- NAS Committee Reviewing 2010 Census Examines Internet Use by Other Countries
- ERS Funds Research on Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs
Federal Role in Agricultural Risk Management Examined- PCORI Seeks Scientific and Stakeholder Reviewers for Pilot Project Grants Program
October 10, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 18
- COSSA 30th Anniversary Annual Meeting Adds NSF and NIJ Directors as Speakers
- FY 2012 Begins: CR Funds Government Until November 18
- House Chairman Announces His Recommendations for Labor, HHS, ED Spending Bill
- NSF Introduces 'Science Across Virtual Institutes' (SAVI)
- NSF Makes First I-CORPS Awards: Decision Scientist Among the Grantees
- DOT Calls for Abstracts for Transportation Workforce Summit
- Briefing on Economic Census Held on Capitol Hill
- Justice Policy Coalition Presents Session on Cutting Corrections' Costs and Populations
- Improving Student Performance: Brookings' Hamilton Project Has New Proposals
- Work and Family Research Latest Focus of Brookings' Future of Children
- Cyber Attacks and National Security Explored at AAAS Forum
- SRCD, PAA Seek Public Policy Fellows
- PCORI Announces $26 Million Pilot Projects Grant Program
- NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission
- COSSA Annual Meeting: Last Chance for Reduced Registration
- Senate Appropriations Committee Marches On: CR in Trouble
- CJS Panel Reduces NSF Funding Below FY 2011; Census Bureau Gets More, but Report Language Presents Major Challenges
- NIH Cut Slightly: Lots of Report Language on Health and Behavior
- NIH Deputy Director Addresses Joint NIDA/NIAAA Advisory Council Meeting: Merging of Institutes Discussed
- NICHD Council Discusses the Institute's Draft Vision Statement
- Census Director Appoints New Members and Chair to Scientific Advisory Committee
- Advancing Discovery: The Role of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research in Fighting Diabetes
- AERA, NAE Session: Evaluating Teachers Still Difficult Task
- Brookings Panel Examines Latest Poverty Numbers
- Farm Foundation Briefing Focuses on Agricultural Data
- Senators Seek New Way to Fund Agricultural Research
- ERS Holds Annual Conference on Research Issues Related to Food and Nutrition
- NSF Seeks Proposals to Transform Education through Cyberlearning
September 12, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 16
- COSSA to Celebrate 30th Anniversary at Annual Meeting on November 2 and 3:
Price, Marrett, Groves, Mann among Distinguished Speakers
- Congress Returns: Focus on FY 2012 Spending Bills, Jobs, and Waiting for the Super Committee
- Senate Appropriators Get to Work; House Appropriators Try to Finish
- Cutter Discusses Human Response during NSF Hazards Event
- NIH-Commissioned Study Identifies Gaps in NIH Funding Success Rates for Black Researchers
- NIH Establishes ACD Diversity in Biomedical Research Working Group
- DHS' START Center Event Examines Terrorism Ten Years after 9/11
- George Alter Appointed Director of ICPSR
- National Science Board Solicits for Nominees for its 2012 Awards
- SBE Seeks Projects to Create Metadata for its Major Surveys
- NSF Seeks Proposals at Interface of Computer and Social Sciences
- Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Group on the Future Biomedical Research Workforce Seeks Input
- Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Applications Wanted
- COSSA's Newest Member
August 8, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 15
- COSSA to Celebrate 30th Anniversary at Annual Meeting on November 2 and 3
- COSSA President Pens SCIENCE Editorial
- Congress Leaves Town; Faces Major Budgetary Decisions in Fall
- Merit Review Process Scrutinized by House Panel
- Democrats on SST Committee Release Response to Coburn Report on NSF
- House Agriculture Panel Examines USDA Research Programs
- Defense Department to Run Another Minerva Competition
- NSF Funds Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
- PRB Releases 2011 World Population Data Sheet
- Susan Olson Named New Head of Law and Society Association
- PCORI Seeks Comments on Research Topic Areas for Potential RFA
- Autism Spectrum Disorders: Psychosocial/Behavioral Interventions and Services Research
- Translational Research: Research Leading to New Health Practices
- NEA Solicits Proposals to Research Value and Impact of the Arts
- Editor's Note
- CJS Spending Bill Emerges from Appropriations Panel; Timing of House Floor Action Uncertain
- Public Comment Sought on Proposed Changes to Common Rule Governing Research with Human Subjects
- Juvenile Justice Council Hears About Study of School Disciplinary Actions
- Jobs in Rural America Focus of Senate Hearing
- A Little Bit of Good News in the NAEP Geography Assessment
- Well-Being of Children Focus of Interagency Statistics Report
- Briefing Highlights Role of Demographic Research in Disaster Recovery
- Science and Human Rights Coalition Holds Meeting
- National Academies Release Framework for K-12 Science Education: SBE Sciences Still Missing
- PCORI Seeks Input on Definition of 'Patient-Centered Outcomes Research'
- NIH OppNet -- Sleep and Social Environment: Basic Biopsychosocial Processes
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Of Genomic Research
- Proposals for Research on Research Integrity Sought
- Social and Behavioral Research on the Elderly in Disasters: Applications Wanted
- European Union Offers Grants for US-EU Research
- AAPSS Seeks Executive Director
July 11, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 13
- COSSA to Celebrate 30th Anniversary at Annual Meeting on November 2 and 3
- CJS Spending Bill Emerges from House Panel: NSF, BEA Escape Cuts; Census, NIJ and BJS Do Not
- Science and Higher Education Community Rally to Support NSF and SBE
- House Passed DHS FY 2012 Funding Bill Slashes S&T Budget
- Senate Appropriations Committee Moves Its First FY 2012 Spending Bill
- 'Bringing the Vision Together' - NICHD Continues to Accept Comments on White Papers
- HHS Seeks to Improve Data Collection in Public Health Surveys
- Advancing HIV Prevention through Transformative Behavioral and Social Sciences
- IOM Report: Relieving Pain Examines Prevention, Care, Education and Research
- Request for Information: Feasibility, Scope, and Design of a State Health Policy Database
June 27, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 12
- NIJ Conference Hears from Holder, Sampson, Bobo
- OJP Announces CrimeSolutions.Gov Database
- OJP Scientific Advisory Board Holds Second Meeting
- Appropriations Subcommittee Chair 'Troubled' by Process to Stand up of NCATS
- National Prevention Strategy Released
- GAO Releases Report on HHS CER Awards
- Greenberg Named Acting Director of NIGMS
- Census Bureau Requests OMB to Continue ACS
- House Passes FY 2012 Agriculture and Rural Development Appropriations Bill: Major Cuts to ERS and NASS Thwarted
- VA Research Appropriations Matches President's Request for Reductions
- NCHS Publishes Health Interview Survey Early Estimates
- ETS and CDF Examine Educational Prospects for Black Boys
- Farm Foundation Event Examines Rural Development in Tough Economic Times
- AAAS Explores Budget Situation for Research and Development
- National Academies' Report on Successful K-12 STEM Education Released
- Evidence Based Policy Symposium To Occur at George Mason
June 13, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 11
- House Panel Scrutinizes Funding of SBE Sciences by NSF
- Rehberg Targets "Soft Sciences" in House Agriculture Appropriation Bill
- NIH ACD Holds 102nd Meeting
- Updates on New SUAA Institute at NIAAA Meeting
- Senate HELP Examines Early Childhood Programs
- New White House Rural Council Announced
- BEA Seminar Details NIPA Revision and Health Care Expenditures' Discrepancies
- Law and Justice Panel Examines Research on White Collar Crime
- Diane Ravitch Receives Moynihan Prize from AAPSS
May 31, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 10
- Coburn Attacks NSF: Calls for Elimination of SBE Directorate
- SBE Advisory Committee Meets: Looks to the Future
- House Begins Appropriations Process: Cut! Cut! Cut!
- Senate Finally Confirms Cora Marrett as NSF's Deputy Director
- NCES Releases Condition of Education 2011
- START Session Features Authors of Radicalization Volume
- NIMH to Seek Proposals on Mechanisms Underlying Patterns of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders across Diverse Populations
- NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Implementation Science and Impact Evaluation
- History of Science Society Rejoins COSSA
May 16, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 9
- NIH Director Makes Annual Appearance before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
- Education Department Eliminates and Reduces Many Programs as a Result of FY 2011 Appropriations
- HELP Committee Hearing on Improving Health Quality and Patient Safety: First, Do No Harm
- National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality Meets
- New Director of National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Named
- National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Meets
- Two NAS Panels Seek Better Ways to Measure Deterrence and Innovation
- NAS Workshop Examines STEM Education Schools and Programs
- CNSF Holds Seventeenth Annual Exhibition
- Meeting of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
May 2, 2011 - Volumen 30 Issue 8
- On to the FY 2012 Appropriations Process!
- NIH Releases FY 2011 Fiscal Policy
- Legislation Would Remove Many Positions from Senate Confirmation
- Science Subcommittee Examines Behavioral Science Uses for Airport Security
- DOD and USDA Collaboration for Military Families
- NIGMS Releases Strategic Plan for Biomedical/Behavioral Research Training
- NIH Establishes Working Group on the Future Biomedical Research Workforce
- Roger Beachy Leaves NIFA
NIFA, in Keeping with the Administration's Priorities, Announces Grants to Fight Childhood Obesity- USDA Seeks Nominations for Vacancies on the NAREE Advisory Board
- Genes, Cognition and Behavior Report Released
- Institute on Medicine Releases Research on Families Report
- IOM Report - Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters
- Report and Briefing Implore State Action on STEM Education
- NSF Seeks Proposals to Transform STEM Undergraduate Education
- Wendy Baldwin New PRB President
- Society for Anthropological Sciences Joins COSSA
April 18, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 7
- Congress Finally Completes FY 2011 Appropriations After Government Shutdown Averted
- Committees Examine FY 2012 Spending Proposals
- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hears from HHS Secretary Sebelius
- Census Director Outlines Lessons Learned From 2010 Count
- House SST Committee Questions NSF's Large Budget Increase
- HHS Releases Action Plan and Stakeholder Strategy to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- OBSSR Workshop Summary Available
NIH Releases Updated Strategic Plan for Obesity Research- National Academies Report: LGBT Health Research Gaps and Needs
- NIH Launches Training Institute on Dissemination and Implementation Research
- NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Implementation Science and Impact Evaluation
- NICHD's Visioning Process Continues: Comments Wanted
- HHS Seeks to Make Health Data More Accessible
- Social Work Caucus Launched on Capitol Hill
- Conference on Obama in Office
- New COSSA Staff Member
April 4, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 6
SPECIAL EDITION: PROPOSED FY 2012 BUDGETS FOR SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE (PDF)
On February 14, President Obama released his FY 2012 budget proposal that would ―put forward a plan to rebuild our economy and win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building our global competitors. He also stated that the U.S. should ―invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. His priorities in the proposal included science and technology, education, and national infrastructure.
This task has become more difficult in the continuing failure of the Congress and the White House to reach an agreement on the budget for FY 2011, which began on October 1, 2010. On March 18, the President signed the congressionally-enacted sixth Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government open. This CR runs out on April 8. As you read this, Washington is rife with talk of a coming government shutdown.
March 7, 2011 - Volume 30 Issue 5
- FY 2011 Budget Battle Continues
- Bob Hauser to Lead DBASSE
- Joan Ferrini-Mundy Named AD for NSF's Education and Human Resources Directorate
- Census Bureau Seeks Nominations for Science Advisory Board
- NIH Examines the Science of Research on Discrimination and Health
- AHRQ -- Health Care Quality Progresses at Slow Rate; Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist
- GAO Report Identifies Duplicative Government Programs Adding Fodder for Spending Reductions
- Community Disaster Resilience Subject of NAS Report
- Women and Girls Subject of White House Council Report
- NIH Seeks Comments on its Director's Early Independence Award
- NSF Seeks Proposals for Research Coordination Networks in SEES
- NIA: Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context
- OBSSR at NIH Launches Summer Institute on Mobile Health
- RWJF 2011 Call for Proposals on Public Health Law Research
- President Obama Releases Proposed FY 2012 Budget
- House of Representatives Goes on Budget Cutting Spree
- Congress Asks for Report on Humanities and Social Sciences
- More Funds for Cops, Not Prisons, Message of COSSA, ASC Congressional Briefing
- AERA Briefing Explores Payoffs of Long-Term Investment in Education Research
- NICHD Seeks Input on Defining an Agenda to Address Research Capacity Building
- AHRQ Annouces Interest in Career Development Grants Focused on Health Care System Redesign
- NIA and AoA to Support Joint Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain their Health and Independence
- American Finance Association Newest COSSA Member
- Budget Debate About to Begin
- OJP Science Advisory Board Holds Initial Meeting
- 'Energy and Commerce Leaders Probe HHS:' Waxman Questions Approach
- President Obama Annouces Appointment ot Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health
- On the Fast Track" NCRR Dissolved/NCATS Create by October 2011
- Harkin Reintroduces the 'HeLP America Act'
- 2010 Census Advisory Committee Holds Last Meeting
- SBE Makes 2020 White Papers Available
- NSB Seeks Feedback on NSF's Merit Review Criteria
- Head Start Advisory Committee Holds Initial Meeting
- NCHS' Board of Scientific Counselors Meet
- NIAID Pre-testing of its Biomedical HIV Prevention Research Communication Messages - Seeks Comments
- Investing in the Future: NIGMS Seeks Comments on its Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training
- CDC Releases Health Disparties and Inequalities Report: 'Compelling Arguement for Action' - Need for Better Data
- NINR Interdisciplinary Approaches for HIV/AIDS Risk-Avoidance Decison Making in Developing Adolescents
- NCI's "Provocative Questions Project" - Identifying Perplexing Problems to Drive Progress against Cancer
- National Medal of Science Nominees Sought
- New Congress Continues to Organize: Awaits State of Union Address
- Examination and Potential Reorganization of HHS by House Energy and Commerce Committee
- NIMH Advisory Council Member Resigns Citing 'Short Shrift' to Psychosocial Research
- National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council Meets: Hears Valedictory Advice from Departing Social Scientist
- Nursing Institute Seeks Public Comments on Draft Strategic Plan
NIFA Director Pumps Up "Science for Food and Agriculture"- Patricia Hu New BTS Director
- NAS Report on Research Training in Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences Released
- National Research Center Conference Examines Teacher Issues
- NSF Solicits Proposals for Large Multidisciplinary, Multi-Institutional Science and Technology Centers
- NSF Seeks to Stimulate Research Related to the Science of Broadening Participation
- DBASSE Executive Director Sought
- Search for New Director of Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change
- COSSA Welcomes New Member
- Welcome to 2011: A New Politics?
- NSF Director Suresh Speaks at PCAST Meeting
- NSF Explains Sustainability Initiative
- President Names Former BLS Commissioner Katharine Abraham to CEA
- Measuring American Well-Being: SSRC's Human Development Project Issues Report
- NSTC Sponsors Workshop on the Science of Science Measurement
- IOM Report Examines the Role of Measurement of Health Outcomes
- New NHGRI ELSI Funding Opportunities
- Research on Alcohol-Related Public Policies
- ASPE Seeking Comments on Comparative Effectiveness Research Inventory