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 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 20 Index (pdf)

Archived Update

January 18, 2005

• Congress Returns and Begins To Organize The 109th

• National Social Science Committee Examines 2004 Vote

• NSF Announces Competition for American National Elections Studies

• Report On Firearms and Violence Released

• Brookings Center Releases Annual Report On Education

• Report Examines Research Priorities for Environmental Decision-Making

• NIDA and Michigan Release Report On Teen Drug Use

• Demography Centers Established At NIH

January 24, 2005

• Abrams Discusses Future of Social/Behavioral Science At NIH

• NRC Makes Recommendations For Education Research

• One Survey Cancelled; Another to Eliminate Gender Category

• Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

• NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

February 7, 2005

• Bush Administration Releases Austere Budget

• Lightfoot to Lead SBE at NSF

• Democratic Governance Discussed at Law Schools Meeting

• More Research Necessary on Links Between Physical Activity and Built Environment

• University of Maryland Named Newest Homeland Security Center of Excellence

March 7. 2005*

• Research and Development Budgets:  Who Gained And Who Lost In The FT 2006 Budget Proposal

• NSF:  Dreams Of Doubling Deferred

• How Appropriations Committee Restructuring Will Affect Social And Behavioral Sciences

• NIH:  Analysis And Summaries of all Social and Behavioral Science-Related Institutes

• Homeland Security Sees Large Increases for Research and Development

• Administration Again Seeks to Eliminate Department of Education Programs

• State Department Sees Increases for Educational and Cultural Exchanges in the War to Win “Hearts And Minds” in The Muslim World

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March 21, 2005

• Old And New Spending Panels Scrutinize NSF Budget Proposal

• House Appropriators Discuss NIH Funding With Zerhouni

• House Committee Wants NIH Reauthorization Bill

• House Science Committee Discusses R&D In FY 2006 Budget

• Senate, House Differ on Overall Spending in Budget Resolution
• COSSA Holds Capitol Hill Briefing on Future of Rural America
• Schofield Nominated to Lead Office of Justice Programs
• COPAFS Discusses ACS and Immigration Statistics
• NIH Discusses Genetics and Environment
• Request for Comment on Human Research Protections
• Sources of Research Support

• Specter and Harkin Still Champion NIH

• Ending Formula Funding for Agriculture Research “Just Isn’t Going to Happen”

• Gerberding Discusses CDC Budget with Appropriators

• Restore Fiscal Sanity:  “It’s Healthcare Stupid!”

• Steele New Head of Advance Study Center

• New NSF Cybersecurity Center:  Social and Behavioral Science Included

• Sources of Research Support

• Dalton Conley, NYU Sociologist, Wins NSF's Waterman Award

• Kincannon, Stakeholders Address House Subcommittee

• Marburger: “Social Science of Science Policy Needs to Grow Up”

• SAMHSA, NIDA, NIAAA, and NIMH Discuss The Coming Year With House Committee

• Sources of Research Support

May 16, 2005

• FY 2006 Appropriations Process Underway In House

• Crime Prevention Research And Policy: Can They Connect?

• NAS: More NIH Support for Social/Behavioral Science Training Needed

• NAS Panel Discusses Usability of ACS Data

• Schofield on the Road to Confirmation

• William Kruskal, Giant of Statistical Theory, Dies At 85

• Sources of Research Support

• Lightfoot Takes Command; Bement Voices Support At Sbe Advisory Committee

• Capitol Hill:  Scientists Discuss “Six Degrees Of Separation”

• Spending Bills Move Forward In House; Senate Begins Process

• Schofield Clears The Senate

July 11, 2005

• House Achieves Its Goal; Passes All Spending Bills by July 4

• COSSA Brings Privacy Protection Dialogue to Capitol Hill

• Meth Addiction Research: Encouraging News for Treatment

• Feucht to Lead NIJ Research and Evaluation Office

• Ed Department Helps Implement Constitution Day

• Sources of Research Support

July 25, 2005

• Senate Labor, HHS, Education Bill Emerges From Committee; NIH Gets Boost

• House Committee Holds Hearing to Discuss NIH Reauthorization

• NIJ Holds Conference on Criminal Justice Research

• OSTP/OMB Seek Reactions to Multiple Investigator Proposal

August 8, 2005

• COSSA Holds Capitol Hill Briefing on the Future of the Middle East

• Higher Education Act Revisions Emerge From House Panel

• Mark Weiss New OSTP Social Science Director

• Olsen Confirmed as NSF Deputy Director

• Mark Schneider to Head Education Statistics Center

• Sarah Hart Leaves NIJ; BJS Director Sought

• Special AAPSS Annals Issue

• NIH Request for Information

• OBSSR Request for Comments

• Editor’s Note

September 12, 2005

• Washington Returns to Work in the Aftermath of Katrina

• Higher Education Bill Emerges from Senate Panel

• Social Science Community Still Relevant in Risk and Crisis Communication

• Symposium Discusses Possible Return of “Imperial Presidency”

• Democracy at Risk, According to New APSA-Sponsored Book

• NIMH Issues Request for ‘Rapid’ Grant Applications

• NSF Seeks New Division Directors for SBE

• Sources of Research Support

• American Sociological Association Celebrates 100th Anniversary

• Privacy Transcripts Now Available

• New COSSA Member

September 26, 2005

• New Fiscal Year on Horizon, Congress to Pass Continuing Resolution

• Zerhouni Encourages Researchers to “Embrace Change” at NAMHC Meeting

• Education Secretary Spellings Announces Higher Ed Commission

• NIGMS Council Discusses Creation of Biobehavioral Training Program

• NHLBI Director Discusses New Initiatives

• Census Bureau Talks About Katrina Recovery

• Economic Research Bureau Holds Tax Policy Briefing

• Sources of Research Support

October 10, 2005

• Texas Senator Calls for NSF to Refocus Efforts Away From Social Sciences

• Fiscal Year Begins, Push for Spending Cuts Accelerates

• Behavioral Scientist One of Thirteen To Win Pioneer Award

• Senate Committee Debates Marriage Development Accounts

• National Children’s Study Set to Begin

• Middle East Transcripts Now Available

• Sources of Research Support

October 24, 2005

• Appropriations Process Trudges On

• Census Faces Difficult Choices As Funding Cuts Loom

• Zerhouni Meets With NIH Stakeholders

• NSF Awards To Examine Nanotechnology And Society

• AERA Addresses Black Education And Research

• Bernanke To Be New Fed Chairman

• Comings And Goings

• AAG and NIDA To Hold Symposium On Geography And Drug Addiction

• Returning Member

November 7, 2005

• Marburger, Delauro, Lightfoot, and Abrams Headline COSSA Annual Meeting

• NSF, NIH, NIJ, BJS Receive Appropriations Increases, ACS and 2010 Census Saved

• NIH Seeks To Create Clinical and Translational Science Program

• William O. Baker, Advisor to Five Presidents And COSSA, Dies

• New COSSA Member

November 21, 2005

• Science Panel Hears Social Scientists on Disaster Response

• House Rejects Labor, HHS Conference Report; New C.R. Passed

• CBO Director to Leave; Bernanke Nomination Moves Forward

• Sources of Research Support

 December 12, 2005

• Centralizing NIH’s Trans-Agency Research  

• Congress Seeks To Finish Session

• Geography Transcript Available

• New HSD Competition Announced

• No NIH Reauthorization Bill This Year

• The New American National Election Studies

• NIH Seeks Applicants For Pioneer Award Program

• CDC Seeks Public Comment On Research Agenda