Petition to Support Peer Review Launched
June 21st, 2017
On June 12, the Coalition to Promote Research (CPR) released a petition urging Congress to support the nation’s scientific research enterprise by allowing the federal peer and merit review processes to judge the relevance of research proposals. …
FABBS Presents to NSF SBE Advisory Committee
May 25th, 2017
At the invitation of the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences Advisory Committee, FABBS Executive Director Dr. Paula Skedsvold was asked to share FABBS’s perspective on legislative and communications issues facing the social and behavioral sciences …
FABBS Joins Effort to Urge Congress to Reject Administration’s Proposed R&D Cuts
May 25th, 2017
Spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 149 U.S. science, engineering, medical, health, and higher education organizations signed onto a letter urging Congress to reject the President’s proposed cuts to science in the …
NIH Rolling Out New Policy to Limit Support for Individual Grantees
May 25th, 2017
On May 2, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy, restricting the amount of support individual grantees may receive from the agency. In a statement, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said NIH was enacting …
Feldman Barrett Highlights Need to Integrate Neuroscience and Behavioral Science
April 20th, 2017
At a Friday morning meeting of behavioral and social science representatives at NIH, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, called for a greater integration of neuroscience with behavioral science as well as the need for a cumulative …
President Launches Effort to Reorganize Federal Agencies
March 15th, 2017
In one of the latest Executive Orders to come out of the White House, the President directed the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to put together a “comprehensive” plan to “reorganize governmental …
