The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed to trim the budget of the National Institutes of Healthby .6 percen, This would leave the NIH at $30.5 billion ,The Committee also proposes $582 million to launch the National Center for Advancing Translational Research, while eliminating the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘budget’
September 27th, 2011 - 8:38 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
BREAKING NEWS: NIH budget has modest cuts .. so far
What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
September 24th, 2011 - 5:11 am § in Science
National Academy Proposes Ways to Save US Research Endeavour
(based on article in The Scientist) A National Academy of Sciences panel, chaired by Chad Holliday, former chief executive of chemical company DuPont and now chairman of the board of Bank of America, is drafting a plan ….. for “significant belt-tightening.” Chad Holliday, told [...]
September 18th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Work Study:Free Tuition in Kentucky College
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Republican Government
THIS IS THE ONE THING YOU’LL SUPPORT? Program That Lets Jobless Work For Free Gets Key Backing From Paul Ryan …. Huff Post Meanwhile in Britain (from the Independent): Tens of thousands of benefits claimants will be referred to food banks by the Government, which is worried that many B[...]
Will the UW lose its role in global higher education?
Even a Century After the Fall of the British Empire, Oxford and Cambridge Retain Their Roles As Global Leaders in Higher Education …. The UW has that role today as one of America’s great “private ivies.” Will we retain our stature? (Based in part of report by CHRISTINE A[...]
Courts Make Bad Ruling on Who Owns a Gene
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 29, 2011 NY Times excerpted The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents on two human genes used to predict if women have an increased r[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UPDATE .. ROMNEY WILL BE GRILLED
UPDATE: TODAY the Republican candidates get quizzed by three inquisitors of the extreme right. God must hate Romney. I wonder if he now gets 33 minutes to be grilled? While huge media attention has been given to the way President Obama backed down so the Repricans could have their debat in Califor[...]
August 19th, 2011 - 6:23 am § in Misc.
Where is the money?
Top 20 cash-rich American companies Washington, Aug 8 – Here is the Standard and Poor’s list of top 20 US companies sitting on $1.4 trillion in cash, even as the debt-ridden world’s largest economy had to face an embarassing ratings downgrade last week: 1. Citigroup $526 billion 2.[...]
August 18th, 2011 - 11:33 pm § in Misc.
Free diabetes and blood pressure drugs for Brazilians
Brazil is to provide free medicines for everyone suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes. The drug s will be distributed through a nationwide network of budget pharmacies, where many medicines are already heavily subsidised. President Dilma Rousseff said the measure was part of her campaign t[...]