When is a Giraffe merely a Giraffe?

University Research & Economic Growth I recently ran across an article that stopped me in my tracks with this statement: A United Nations report on Asian higher education has questioned the widely held belief among policymakers that investment in university research…

And now, the DATA Act is on the Way to the President. The Senate passed a version of the DATA Act on April 1oth. That version of the DATA Act passed the House of Representatives today on a voice vote…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Agency for healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced in notice NOT-OD-14-074 published yesterday that effective immediately, they will no longer be assessing the similarity of the science in a new application to that of…

The final report of the 2012 Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Faculty Workload Survey is now available via the <a href="http://thefdp click this over here now.org” onclick=”_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘outbound-article’, ‘http://thefdp.org’, ‘FDP website’]);” target=”_blank”>FDP website. Tabulating results from over 13,000 faculty representing 111…

While neither the only nor the first to offer similar advice, the recent paper by Alberts, et al., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws, is the most recent and one of the…

The STAR METRICS (Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effect of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science) project grew out of a collaboration between federal agencies and academic institutions – members of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) – in…
Science in the Public Eye

Science is a common topic in the news today – the new Cosmos series, climate science, STEM education, genetically modified crops, stem cells, new drugs and vaccines, exploring Mars and beyond, evolution, pollution, nuclear waste, dinosaurs, even the President’s proposed…

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) will enter Phase VI in September 2014 and is open to applications from organizations receiving federal research funding, including public and private colleges and universities receiving federal research funding (including predominantly undergraduate institutions and minority…