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Societies Consortium Continues to Grow and Develop New Tools to Support STEMM Community, including Members of FABBS

September 24, 2020

The Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM held its second all-members meeting this September. The Consortium was created with over 100 inaugural member organizations standing together against sexual, racial, and other intersecting bases of harassment, conceived …

NIMH Council Meeting and FABBS Helps Launch the Friends of NIMH

September 24, 2020

The NIMH Council met on September 15, covering a wide range of important topics. In his Director’s report, Dr. Gordon provided an update on numerous invitations from Congressional offices, including participation in a briefing for the Congressional …

Continuing Resolution Passed in the House, Research Relief Prospects are Hopeful

September 24, 2020

On Tuesday night, after a long day of partisan disagreement around farm aid, nutrition assistance, and timeline, the House voted 359 to 57 to approve a bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open until December …

Focusing on Numbers Ignores Sources of Gender Bias

September 10, 2020

In a new paper on testing and gender bias published in the FABBS journal, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, author Joseph R. Cimpian quotes an elementary school teacher:

            “These are my students’ standardized …

White House Releases Memo on the Budget R & D Priorities for Fiscal Year 2022

September 10, 2020

Last month, Russell Vought, Director of Office of Management and Budget, and Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, issued a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies regarding ‘FY …

Dr. Ruby Takanishi, Founding Executive Director of FABBS – In Memoriam

September 10, 2020

With heavy hearts, we mourn the passing of Dr. Ruby Takanishi, the founding Executive Director of FABBS.

As we commemorate 40 years of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, we will be asking the …

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