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Volume 34 (2015)
December 17, 2015, Volume 34 Special Issue | PDF
December 15, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 23 | PDF
- Featured News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- Funding Opportunity Announcements
- COSSA Member Spotlight
- Events Calendar
December 1, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 22 | PDF
- Featured News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- COSSA Member Spotlight
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November 17, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 21 | PDF
- Featured News
- Congressional News
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- COSSA Member Spotlight
- Events Calendar
November 3, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 20 | PDF
- Featured News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Seeks Input on 2016-2020 Strategic Plan
- OBSSR and AHRQ Release Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights
- NIH Announces Plans for ECHO Program
- HHS Seeks Comments on New Objectives Proposed For Healthy People 2020
- NCHS Releases First National Data on Electronic Cigarette Usage
- NIH Blog Explains NIH Commons
- NIA Director Reports on the Progress of Alzheimer’s Research and Funding
- NIA Releases 10 Funding Opportunity Announcements Focused on Alzheimer’s disease Research
- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunity Announcements
- COSSA Member Spotlight
- Events Calendar
October 20, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 19 | PDF
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- Congressional News
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- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunity Announcements
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October 6, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 18 | PDF
- Featured News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- NIH Associate Director for Data Science Discusses Opportunities and Challenges of Data Science
- National Science Board Seeks Nominations for 2016 Class
- Michael S. Lauer Named NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research
- NIH Seeks Comments on Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minorities
- USDA Starts Collecting Data on Post-Harvest Food Safety Practices
- White House Holds Forum on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing; OSTP Issues Memorandum to Agencies
- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunity Announcements
- COSSA Member Spotlight
- Events Calendar
September 22, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 17 | PDF
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- Funding Opportunity Announcements
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September 8, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 16 | PDF
- Featured News
- COSSA in Action
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- HHS Releases Proposed Updates to the Common Rule
- White House Chief Data Scientist Seeks Input
- NIH Plans for Redirection of National Children’s Study Funds
- OAR Outlines Overarching AIDS Research Priorities; Studies of Behavior and Social Conditions with Multiple Negative Outcomes Deemed Low Priority
- NIH Issues Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Research Priorities
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- Funding Opportunity Announcements
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- Featured News
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- COSSA Washington Update Returns September 8
July 28, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 14 | PDF
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- Funding Opportunity Announcements
- COSSA Member Spotlight
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July 14, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 13 | PDF
- Featured News
- COSSA in Action
- Congressional News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- White House Issues Annual S&T Guidance for FY 2017 Budget
- Congressionally-Mandated Strategic Plan, FY 2016 Budget Discussed by NIH Advisory Committee to the Director
- NIH SMRB Working Group Approves Recommendations on Streamlining the NIH Grant Award Process
- NIH Seeks Feedback on Using mHealth for the Precision Medicine Cohort
- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunity Announcements
- COSSA Member Spotlight
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June 30, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 12 | PDF
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June 16, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 11 | PDF
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June 2, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 10 | PDF
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May 19, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 9 | PDF
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May 5, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 8 | PDF
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- COSSA in Action
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- Member Spotlight
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April 21, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 7 | PDF
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April 7, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 6 | PDF
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- COSSA in Action
- Congressional News
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- Nominations Sought for USPSTF Members
- White House Releases Antibiotic Resistance Action Plan
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Strategic Visioning Initiative Seeks Scientific Community’s Input
- RFI: Proposed Funding Priorities for Neuroscience Research, Input on High Impact and Cross-Cutting Opportunities
- RFI: Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of Biomedical Research
- Let Out Your Inner Behavioral & Social Scientist – OBSSR Issues Call for Videos
- NIMH Releases Strategic Plan for Research
- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunities
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March 24, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 5 | PDF
- Featured News
- COSSA in Action
- Congressional News
- House Funding Panel Discusses NSF Budget, Social Science Funding
- House Appropriations Funding Panel Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services Discusses NIH Budget
- Senate HELP Committee Examines ‘U.S. Leadership in Medical Innovation,’ NIH/FDA Budgets
- House Panel Discusses Department of Education’s FY 2016 Budget Request
- Federal Agency & Administration News
- Publications & Community Events
- Funding Opportunities
- COSSA Member Spotlight
- Events Calendar
March 13, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 4 | PDF
- COSSA in Action
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- Next COSSA Washington Update: March 24
February 24, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 3 | PDF
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January 27, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 2 | PDF
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January 13, 2015, Volume 34 Issue 1 | PDF
- From the Executive Director
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- Funding Opportunities
- COSSA Member Spotlight
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