• 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

Volume 20 Index (pdf)

Archived Update

Volume 21

December 9, 2002   printer friendly pdf version

• Marburger, Branscomb Addressess Highlight Lively COSSA Annual Meeting

• Orlando Taylor Elected COSSA's Next President

• Appropriations Update

• Congress Passes Data Sharing and Confidentiality Bill

• Adjusted Census 2000 Numbers to be Released

• IOM Report Addresses Public Health Professional Education

November 18, 2002    printer friendly pdf

• GOP Takes Control:  Implications of Election 2002

• Congress Clears NSF Reauthorization Bill

• Bush Announces Intent to Nominate Hoffman to National Science Board

• NCHS Lacks Resources to Provide Much-Needed Health Statistics

• International Studies on Health and Economic Development Supported by FIC

November 4, 2002   Printer friendly pdf

• Zerhouni Meets with Behavioral and Social Science Advocates

• Charters of Dissolved HHS Advisory Committees Revamped

• Congress Concerned that Scientific Decisionmaking is Being Subverted by Ideology

• Bush Sign Election Reform Bill into Law; Political Scientists React

• Baldwin to Leave NIH for University of Kentucky

• Doubling of NIH's Budget Good for Social and Behavioral Science Research

• Sources of Research Support

October 21, 2002  printer friendly pdf

• House Spending Panel Gives NSF Step Toward Doubling as Congress Leaves Washington To Campaign

• Zerhouni Appears at Appropriations Hearing:  Assures Members 'Resources are Well Spent

• Update on Legislation

• IOM Releases Report Calling for a 'System Approach to Protecting Research Participants'

• Bush Announces Intent to Nominate Eight Individuals to the National Science Board

• Findings Relate Teen Sexual Activity to Relationship With Mother

• Academy Report Decries Federal Use of Polygraph Testing

October 7, 2002

• New Fiscal Year Begins; Budgets Continue At Old Year Levels

• National Children Study Continues to Take Shape

• COSSA Seminar Briefs Washington on Ethnic Conflict

• COSSA Transcripts Available

• COSSA Welcomes New Member

September 23, 2002  (printer friendly pdf version)

• HHS Dissolves Human Subjects Protections Committee

• Senate Commerce Panel Gives OK to Doubling NSF; Administration Expresses Opposition

• Data Sharing and Confidentiality Bill Moves Forward

• NAS Continues to Analyze the Organizational Structure of NIH

• Appointments:  NIMH, NIAAA Directors; Anderson Named CEO of APA

• Bush Announces U.S. Will Rejoin UNESCO

• Congress Returns Amid Sea of Uncertainty

• Senate Panel  Reports NSF Bill; Goal is to Double Funding in Five Years

• Academy Report Probes 'What Do Terrorists Value?'

• NIJ Panel Discusses Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement

• Census 2000:  Looking Back, Looking Forward

• IOM Says Research Needed on 'When Children Die'

• COSSA Welcomes Back Affiliate

• Sources of Research Support:  End-of-Life Care for Dying Children

August 5, 2002   (printer friendly pdf)

• Spending Bills Continue to Move Forward

• Homeland Security Department Passes House; Senate Bill Faces Delay

• IOM Committee Begins Examination of the Organization of NIH

• NRSA Grants Renamed to Honor Kirschstein

• FY 2003 Spending Bills Moving More Swiftly

• New Department Emerges From Select Committee:  S&T Gets Undersecretary

• Senate HELP Committee Approves Nomination of Carmona as Surgeon General

• NSF Holds Workshop on Risk Analysis and Decision Making

• America's Children:  Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2002

• Sources of Research Support:  SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program; NSF International Research Fellowship Program; Stigma and Global Health Research

July 8, 2002  pdf

• Homeland Security:  NAS Report, New Department Focus of Congressional Activity

• Appointments:  Gerberding Named CDC Director; Feuer Replaces Torrey as Head of National Academy Social Science Division

• COSSA Briefs Washington on the Genetic Revolution

• Social and Behavioral Development Through Early Head Start

• 'Reducing Suicide:  A National Imperative' Says IOM

• COSSA Welcomes Back Contributor

• Correction

• Appropriations Process Begins:  HHS, NSF, NIJ To Come Later

• Doubling NSF Budget Gains More Support at Senate Hearing

• Senate Hearing Considers Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium

• Institute of Mental Health meets with 'Partners in Research'

• Decade Briefing Focuses on Public Response to Terrorism

• COSSA Welcomes Back Affiliate

• Sources of Research Support:  Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS; Women's Health in Sports and Exercise

 June 10, 2002  pdf

• House Passes NSF Authorization Bill

• House Subcommittee Assess NIH Use of Increased Resources

• Senate Committee Holds Hearing on the Binge Drinking Epidemic at College Campuses

• COSSA Seminar Examines Welfare Reform's Impact on Children and Families

• 'Promoting Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education Through Department Change'

• COSSA Staff Undergoes Changes

• COSSA Co-Sponsoring Briefing on Terrorism

• Sources of Research Support

May 24, 2002  pdf

• Mikulski and Bond Decry Small NSF Increase; Renew Support for Doubling

• Doubling NSF Bill Emerges from House Science Committee

• Senate Subcommittee's 'Rollicking Ride' on Science and Technology

• Congress Discusses Role of Lifestyle in the Prevention and Intervention of Disease:  Heart Disease and Obesity

• Farm Bill Passed; IFAFS Definition Expanded

• COSSA to Hold Briefing on the Genetic Revolution

May 13, 2002  pdf

• Zerhouni Confirmed as First 'NIH Director in Century of Life Sciences'

• Doubling NSF Budget Gains Support of House Science Panel

• Marburger:  'NSF Most Important Science Agency We Have'

• House Passes OERI Overhaul; Senate Committee to Hold Hearing May 23

• National Academy Panel Explores Terrorism

• Brookings Releases Homeland Security Report

• Announcements:  New COSSA Contributor; Upcoming COSSA Seminar; GIS Science Conference

• Sources of Research Support

April 29, 2002  pdf

• Congress Examines Research Protection Oversight System:  Legislation Needed

• NIH Directors Testify to House Appropriators

• NIH Seeks Comments on Data Sharing Policy by June

• Coalition Requests Increased Funding for International Education

• Kincannon Confirmed; Barron to Leave Census Bureau

• Academy Hears Advise About Graduate Doctoral Study

• Decade Briefing Highlights Human Response to Disaster Research

• Sources of Research Support

• Marburger Declares Importance of Social Sciences

• Integrating the Social Sciences into the War on Terorrism

• NSF Budget Called 'Disappointing' By Appropriators

• Senate Hearing Held on Creation of Homeland Security Department

• Representatives Join Scholars in Assault on Bush Presidential Records Order

• Task Force Issues a 'Call to Action' on Drinking

• Interim Management Team to Lead the CDC

• Hillsman Named to Lead Sociologists

April 1, 2002    pdf

• Improvement of Education Research Gains Momentum

• Leading Economists Brief Senate on State of Economy

• Bush Administration Convenes its First HIV/AIDS Council Meeting

• President and HHS Secretary Make Key Health Appointments

• IOM Issues ‘Wake-Up’ Call to Health Care System

• Report Calls Human Dimensions of Fire Management Critical

March 18, 2002  pdf

• House Research Panel Discusses NSF Funding

• NIH Appears Before Appropriators

• Administration Proposes Justice Programs' Office Reorganization

• Restructuring of Education Research Underway in House

• Comings and Goings:  Zerhouni to Lead NIH?; Cassman and Koplan Continue Exodus; Political Scientist to Head HRSA; AHRQ Administrator Dies

• Census and Juvenile Justice Nominations Move Forward

• Hill Briefing Focuses on Stress and Health

March 4, 2002

This issue of COSSA WASHINGTON UPDATE contains a summary and analysis of the proposed Fiscal Year 2002 budgets for over 50 agencies and programs that support social and behavioral science research.  There is a nominal charge for the issue.  For more information, contact COSSA@cossa.org

February 11, 2002  pdf

• Administration Releases Patriotic Budget

• Research Protection Committee Acts on Social Science Issues

• Council of Economic Advisers Chairman:  Economy Resilient

• Announcements:  New NSF Division Director Named:  Part II

• Sources of Research Support

January 28, 2002   pdf

• Congress Returns:  Terrorism, Politics, Deficits Define Session

• Social/Behavioral Sciences Tackle Terrorism

• Laura Bush Testifies on Early Childhood Education

• Summit on Early Childhood Development Indicates Importance of Research

• President's Council on Bioethics Named, Holds First Meeting

• Announcements:  Brintnall to Lead APSA; Kington to be Acting Director of NIAAA; Talbott Elected President of Brookings

• Surgeon General Issues Call to Action on Overweight and Obesity

• OBSSR Urges Integration of Social, Behavioral, Biological Approaches

• Sources of Research Support

January 14, 2002   pdf

• Congress Clears Labor-HHS Spending Bill, Education Reform

• School-Based Surveys Dodge Death Blow; Now Face Bed of Thorns

• NIH Examines Economic Perspectives on Health

• OJJDP Reveals Plan for 2002

• Brookings Releases Governmental Priorities Study

• Annoucements:  COSSA Welcomes New Member; New BLS Commissioner Named; Meeting on Spatial Data Analysis Tools