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Volume 27 (2008)
December 8, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 22
- Enhancing Diversity in Science Report Available
- NSF’s HSD Program Makes Final Awards
- NIMH Council Workgroup Makes Recommendations for Strengthening Research Training; Professional Associations Discouraged
- OHRP Seeks Comments on Draft Guidance Document
- Linda S. Birnbaum Named New Director of NIEHS
- Former Census Official John H. Thompson Named President of NORC
- Brookings’ Report Reiterates Need for More Resources for Prisoner Reentry Programs
- Center on Reinventing Public Education Claims School Finance Systems Still Deficient
- SRCD Celebrates Thirty Years of Fellows
- Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health Available
- CDC Funding Opportunities
- Editor’s Note: Farewell to 2008
November 24, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 21
- COSSA Annual Meeting Examines Changing Political, Economic, and National Security Landscapes; Also Hears About Disaster Research and Social Science Evidence
- Aletha Huston Named New COSSA President; Five Join Board as At-Large Members
- SBE Advisory Committee Hears from Bement and Olsen
- NSF Announces Search Committee for New SBE Leader
- House Examines the Role of Biomedical Research in Stimulating the Economy
- Senate Proposes $1 Billion for NIH in Economic Package
November 10, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 20
- Historic Election Sends Obama To White House; More Democrats To Congress
- Committee on National Statistics Examines Immigration Data
- Kington Appointed Acting Director Of The National Institutes of Health
- Jerry A. Menikoff Appointed OHRP Director
- NIGMS, OBSSR Hold Informational Conference on Modeling Social Behavior
- 2009 NIH Director’s Pioneer/New Innovator Awards: Pre-Applications Wanted
October 20, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 19
- COSSA Has Moved to a New Address
- 110th Congress Leaves for Election: Lame Duck Growing More Likely
- Election Forum Looks at Health and Science Research Funding
- Presidential Candidates’ Responses on Support for Basic Research
- DeGette Introduces New Legislation on Human Subjects’ Protection
- Peer Review: New NIH Policy to Fund Meritorious Science Earlier
- IOM Meeting Focuses on Behavioral/Social Determinants of Health
- Alcohol Use Disorder Focus of Congressional Briefing
- Brookings Session and Journal Re-Examine the Juvenile Justice System
October 6, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 18
- COSSA Relocates
- Zerhouni to End Tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health
- Continuing Resolutions Keeps Government Agencies Funded
- NSF Announces Search for New SBE Leader
- Academy Report Recommends Upgrading HUD’s Policy and Research Office
- Make the Census Bureau an Independent Agency: Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Former Census Directors Say Yes!
- Brookings Session Examines New Anti-Poverty Strategies
- Rural Researchers Look at the Future of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
- NSF Seeks Proposals for CDI Competition
- SRCD Fellowships in Public Policy Available
- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Available
September 22, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 17
- House Science Panel Examines the Role of SBE Sciences In Public Health
- House Panel Examines Implementation of the NIH Reform Act Of 2006; NIH Announces SMRB Members
- With the HIV Epidemic “Far From Over,” A House Committee Discusses Latest Prevention Strategies
- Senate Judiciary Panel Looks At Crime: Witnesses Call for Increased Federal Research and Data Activities
- House Judiciary Panel Examines NIH Open Access Policy
- IES Study Looks at After School Programs
- Political Scientist Recipient of 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award; Neuropsychologist Receives New Innovator Award
- Asset Building, Particularly For Women, Focus of Congressional Briefing
- Applications Wanted for NIH Roadmap Transformative Program
September 8, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 16
- Congress Returns for Brief Session Before Election
- NSF Report: Continued Decline in R&D Funding in FY 2007
- Harold Clarke New NSF Division Director
- Academy Report Recommends Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
- PRB 2008 Data Sheet Released: The Demographic Divide Widens
- Ready or Not Here They Come: Improving Higher Education Retention and Graduation
- More Calls for an Improved Poverty Measure
- Applications Wanted: HIV Prevention Programs
- Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics II
August 11, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 15
- Census Director Expresses Concern About Impact of Immigrants’ Fears on 2010 Count
- Higher Education Act Reauthorization Enacted
- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Holds Hearing On The FY 2009 Budget For NIH
- FY 2009 Senate Appropriations For Agriculture And Rural Development: Corrected
- Congress Hears About the State of Social Work in America
- CDC: New HIV Infections Higher Than Previously Estimated
- Political Science Group Issues Report and Holds Briefing on Global Inequalities
- NSF Solicits Proposals As Part of Project Minerva
- NIH Seeks Proposals Using Systems Science Methodologies To Protect and Improve Population Health
- Fogarty International Research Collaboration – Behavioral and Social Sciences
- NIDDK Seeks Planning Grants
- Editor’s Note: Update Takes a Vacation
July 28, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 14
- FY 2009 Appropriations Process To Resume; Domestic Spending Bills Still Unlikely Until Next Year
- Senate Panel’s Agriculture Funding Bill Includes Big NRI Increase
- Revising National Poverty Measure Examined Again
- House Panel Looks At Defense Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation
- NIJ Conference Highlights Research On Race And Crime, Corrections, and Mapping
- Climate Change Report Suggests Negative Impact on Human Health and Welfare
- CDC Official Discusses Climate Change and Global Health
- NSF Issues New Solicitation For Science Of Science And Innovation Policy Initiative
- Research Supplements To Promote Diversity In Health-Related Research Available
- Research Sought on Careers of Women in Biomedical and Behavioral Science and Engineering
- Applications Wanted To Study Interventions That Promote Research Careers
July 14, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 13
- NSF and DOD Sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Census 2010 Communication Campaign: Solution to Reducing the Undercount
- CNSF Holds Fourteenth Annual Hill Exhibition
- NSF Announces New Science and Technology Centers Competition
- House Passes Bill to Preserve Electronic Messages
- Fogarty Releases New Strategic Plan
- OHRP Seeks Comments on Mandatory Training on Human Subjects Protection
- Alyson Reed New Head of Linguistic Society
- Skedsvold to Lead Psychology Federation
- Millennium Promise Awards: Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases Research Training Program
- Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors
- Aging Institute Seeks Proposals on Social Neuroscience of Aging
- Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infections: Applications Wanted
June 30, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 12
- FY 2009 Spending Bills Move Through Committees: Face Uncertain Future After Blow-up in House
- NSF Receives Administration’s Proposed Increase: House Moves Funds from Research to Education: Supports SBE
- NIH Gets Increase: Appropriators Respond to ‘Crisis’
- Census Gets Extra Funding from Senate Committee, But Not from House
- House Panel Bumps Up NCVS, Senate Panel Cuts Social Science from NIJ
- House and Senate Committees Differ on International Education, Graduate Education, Research and Statistics
- American Time Use Survey Survives
- Homeland Security: House Panel More Generous than Senate for Human Factors and University Programs
- Head of OJJDP Faces Congressional Scrutiny Over Grant Making Decisions
- National Children’s Study Responds to the NAS Panel Review
- Has NCLB Made a Difference? Are Advanced Students Left Behind: Some Research Results
- AHRQ Intends to Fund Health Information Technology Research
- UNESCO Seeks Papers for Seminar on Sharing Research Agendas
- Library of Congress Seeks Nominations for Kluge Prize for Study of Humanity
June 16, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 11
- Congress Begins to Tackle FY 2009 Spending Bills
- Army Research Office Seeks Research Proposals as Project Minerva Gets Off the Ground
- NIH Begins Implementation of New Procedures to Enhance Peer Review
- Congress Enacts Farm Bill Over Bush’s Veto: Changes Made to Research Structure
- Congress Continues Scrutiny of Census Bureau: Outreach Programs Launched
- House Panel Examines Nation’s Gang Problem
- House Homeland Panel Reports Legislation to Codify ‘Controlled Unclassified Information’
- Poterba Replaces Feldstein as Head of National Bureau of Economic Research
- Research Libraries’ Association Appoints Lowrey as New Executive Director
- NIH Searches for new Head of OBBSR
June 2, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 10
- Congress Ready to Move Federal Spending Legislation
- 45 Years of NICHD Research Progress on Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities Celebrated on Capitol Hill
- Genome’s Francis Collins To Step Down; Guttmacher To Be Acting Director
- NSF’s SRS Division Re-Examines Confidentiality And Privacy
- 2ND Conference on Interventions to Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers
- The Condition of Education 2008 Report Released
- National Advisory Panel Calls for More Research on Math Teaching and Learning
- Congressional Briefing Examines Lack of Geriatric Care for an Increasing Elderly Population
- NIH Expands CTSA Consortium
- Web Discussion of NIH Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization Planned for June 11
- NIH, AHRQ to Hold 2008 Diabetes and Obesity Disparities In Healthcare Systems Conference
- Editors Note: Correction
May 19, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 9
- FY 2008 War Supplemental: Census in Both Bills; Science in Senate Committee Bill; Administration Threatens Veto
- Nanotechnology Act Renewal Emerges from House Panel
- Marburger Reflects on Science Policy At AAAS Forum
- House Science Panel Looks to Legislation to Overcome Gender Bias in Higher Education
- Administration Issues Memo on Controlled Unclassified Information
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Still Seeking Research and Dissemination Tactics to Improve Education
- American Academy Awards First Moynihan Prize To Alice Rivlin
- Howard University Celebrates E. Franklin Frazier
- NIDA Announces Conference on Blending Science and Treatment
- Future RFA To Support Women In Biomedical And Behavioral Research
May 5, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 8
- Social Sciences And The Military: Understanding The Human Terrain, Focus of Joint Committee Hearing
- NAS Workshop Examines Strengthening the Nation’s Vital Statistics’ System
- Education Secretary Announces Proposed Regulatory Changes to NCLB
- Broadening Participation in The Social, Behavioral And Economic Sciences: Third Annual SBE Alliance Conference Held
- The Impact on Children of Electronic Media Use Focus of Journal and Briefing
- NOAA Seeks Comments On Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty In Climate Change Decision making
- NIH Seeks Ideas for Common Fund/Roadmap Trans-NIH Strategic Initiatives
- NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings Available
April 21, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 7
- Defense Secretary Proposes Closer DOD/University Connections Including More Social Science Research
- Federal Spending: No News is No News
- Census 2010 in Crisis Redux; Gutierrez to Senate Again; Supplemental Emergency Funds Sought
- CDC Discusses Difficulties With Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness
- Interdisciplinary Research Discussed at Geographers’ Meeting
- Social Science Research Institutes Organize A New Consortium
- AHRQ Grant Opportunity To Investigate Implementation of Quality Improvement Strategies
- Behavioral Medicine Group Joins COSSA
April 7, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 6
- Commerce Secretary Explains to House Spending Panel the Need for More Dollars for Census 2010
- Science of Behavior Change Included in Third Cohort of the NIH Common Fund/Roadmap
- IES Director Looks Back Over His Tenure and the Lessons He Learned
- COSSA and NCOVR Present Briefing on Violent Crime
- More From the Enhancing Diversity Retreat
- Law Schools’ Group Names Susan Prager New Executive Director
- NIH Issues Request for Comment on its Open Access Policy
- NHLBI Seeks Input on Translating Discoveries in the Basic Behavioral Sciences
March 24, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 5
- Silver Delivers Plenary Speech At SSSA Meeting
- COSSA Organizes Enhancing Diversity in Science Retreat
- FY 2009 Budget Season Starts In Earnest
- House and Senate Adopt FY 2009 Budget Resolutions
- NSF Faces Friendly Spending Subcommittee
- Health Research Agency Leaders Testify to House Funding Panel
- OJP Request for Consolidation of Programs Draws Skepticism
- Spending Panel Hears About Social Science Field Research for National Security
- Census Bureau Faces Criticism on 2010 Plans from Oversight and Spending Panels
- Demographic Shifts to Challenge Higher Education System
- Abrams to Leave OBSSR, Bachrach Designated Acting Director
- New COSSA Members
March 10, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 4
- President Releases FY 2009 Budget: Will Congress Pay Any Attention?
February 11, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 3
- House Passes Extension of Higher Education Act
- NSF Seeks New Leader for Social And Economic Sciences Division
- The Future of Education Research
- Commission on NCLB Pushes Reauthorization
- NIAAA Advisory Council Hears Update on College Drinking Research
- Strategies For Promoting Innovative Research Discussed at NIDA Advisory Council Meeting
- NIH Seeks Research Proposals on Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias Effects on Health Care Delivery
- Applications Sought for Research Education Grants For Statistical Training In The Genetics of Addiction
- Proposals Wanted for Alcohol Research Education Project
- NIDA Seeks to Support Comprehensive Research “Center Of Excellence” Grant Program
January 28, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 2
- 110 Congress Returns for Second Session
- House Panel Hears Calls for More Federal Support for Early Childhood Education
- General Medical Sciences’ Strategic Plan Includes Behavioral/Social Sciences
- COSSA Members Comment on NIMH’s Strategic Plan
- National Children’s Study to Add Locations and Centers
- Molly Broad New President of American Council on Education
- NIH Seeks Economists for Research Diet, Activity, and Obesity
- NIMH Seeks Applications for Research Education Grants
- OBSSR Issues Three Solicitations for Community Participation Research
- Workshop Participants Sought for Human Dimensions of Global Change Meeting
January 14, 2008, Volume 27 Issue 1
- Welcome to 2008
- FY 2008 Appropriations Process Ends with Omnibus Bill; Bush Gets His Way
- Murdock Confirmed As Census Bureau Director
- Sedgwick Named OJP Acting Head; Hagy Gets Hearing
- NAS Panel Assessing NIJ Holds First Meeting
- OBSSR Releases Strategic Prospectus
- NIH Issues Revised Public Access Policy
- New NSF Solicitation: Science of Science and Innovation Policy
- NIDA Invites Comments on Its Draft Strategic Plan
- 2007 Human Research Protection Award Recipients Announced
- NCI Transition Career Development Award To Promote Diversity
- Applications Wanted to Develop Complex Models of Oral Health Behavior
- NIH Supplements Grants