Washington Update Archive

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• OHRP Seeks Comments on Draft Guidance Document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