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Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2008 |
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| Call for Proposals for CDI Competition |
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The Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Imagination (CDI) Initiative is a five-year activity to create "revolutionary" science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking. Requisite preliminary proposals are due December 8 and 9, 2008. Read More... |
| NSF Announces Search for SBE Assistant Director |
| The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a nationwide search for the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). This position manages a Directorate comprising three divisions: Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Science Resources Statistics (SRS). Read More... |
| MPSA Member Recipient of 2008 NIH Director's Pioneer Award |
| Political scientist Joshua M. Epstein, senior fellow in economic studies and director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution, is a recipient of this year's National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award. Each Pioneer Award provides $2.5 million in costs over five years. Read More... |
| The Body Politic: Biology May Shape Political Views |
| If conservatives and liberals can't see eye to eye, it may be because their brains are wired differently from birth, according to researchers at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, who have for the first time found a link between people's political leanings and their physiology. Read More... |
| Zerhouni to End Tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health |
| A physician-scientist and world-renowned leader in radiology research, Elias Zerhouni's tenure at the NIH saw an increased attention to the social and behavioral sciences. Zerhouni has announced his plans to step down as director at the end of October 2008. Read More... |
| Make the Census Bureau an Independent Agency? Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Former Directors Say "Yes"! |
| Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has introduced legislation to remove the Bureau from under the Department of Commerce and make it an independent agency, noting that "after three decades of controversy surrounding the decennial census, the time has come to recognize the Census Bureau as one of our country's premier scientific agencies." Read More... |
| NIH Implements New Grant Rule |
| On October 8, 2008, the National Institutes of Health announced that it will allow researchers only two opportunities to submit proposals for research grants. Read More... |
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