House Science Committee Passes Scientific Integrity Act and Bipartisan Report on Politicization of Government Science
October 23, 2019
Last week, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology passed the Scientific Integrity Act (H.R. 1709). The legislation would require some federal research agencies to develop and follow clear principles designed to protect research data, scientists and the research …
FABBS Honors Steven Hollon
October 23, 2019
Steven D. Hollon, Ph.D. is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the nature and treatment of depression, with a particular emphasis on the enduring effects of psychosocial treatments. He …
Q&A with Karen Murphy, AERA, PIBBS Co-Editor
October 23, 2019
P. Karen Murphy (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. She was a co-editor for the latest issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS), which …
Honors in Our Sciences
October 9, 2019
Roxane Cohen Silver, FABBS President-Elect, was awarded The Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Silver studies the acute and long-term reactions of both personal traumas and community-wide disasters …
Without a Need for the Closet, Kids are Just Kids
October 9, 2019
When preschoolers identify with a gender that is different than their birth sex, do they suffer more depression than other children? Do they feel the same way about their gender identity as other children their age? What …
A Focus on Foreign Influence in Washington, DC
October 9, 2019
Last month, Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), wrote a letter to the U.S. research community on the topic of foreign influence on our scientific enterprise. Dreoegemeier announced that the OSTP …
