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Senate Holds Nomination Hearing for Top White House Science Advisor
Dr. Eric S. Lander, PhD
The U.S Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation met on April 29th to discuss and question Dr. Eric Lander, President Biden’s nominee for Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), recently elevated to a cabinet-level post. Dr. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician. He was a principal leader of the international Human Genome Project and was a professor of biology at the Massachusetts
read moreFABBS Submits Comments on NIH UNITE Initiative
May 5, 2021
Last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis S. Collins announced the UNITE initiative to identify short-term and long-term actions to end structural racism and improve the diversity and inclusion of talent within the NIH scientific workforce.
UNITE is named for five separate, but coordinating objective-based committees:
Committee U – Understanding stakeholder experiences through listening and
read moreEndless Frontier Act Reintroduced
On April 21, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Todd Young (R-IN), Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) reintroduced the Endless Frontier Act, a $100 billion dollar proposal to ramp up investment in technology research and development aimed at countering China and ensuring American leadership in innovation.
Should it pass, the bill would have major implications for the National Science Foundation (NSF). It would invest $100 billion over
read moreFABBS a Cosponsor for Understanding Diversity in STEM: WMPD Day
The release of the 2021 biennial report, “Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities (WMPD) in Science and Engineering,” inspired a day of online events dedicated to recognizing the progress that has been made and understanding the gaps that remain in the state of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The United States Congress first mandated the National Science Foundation (NSF) to transmit a biennial report on minorities and women in scientific and
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