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NSF Changes Guidelines for Informative Titles, Abstracts
France Córdova (Photo: NSF)Under fire from Republicans in the U.S. Congress for being opaque about how projects are selected for National science Foundation grants, the federal agency is responding by...
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New Congress Gets First Peek at Proposed NSF Budget
Freshman Representative Barbara Comstock chairs the House of Representatives Science Committee’s Research and Technology subcommittee this term.It’s a new year and a new U.S. Congress, but “unpopular”...
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Bill: Make ‘National Interest’ Explicit in NSF Grants
Texas Republican Lamar Smith is the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.In February officials with the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards...
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The National Interest and the NSF
Lamar Smith, an eight-term Republican representing the Austin/Kerrville/ San Antonio areas of Texas in the House of Representatives, is the current chairman of the House Science Committee.On October...
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Lamar Smith’s National Interest Bill Passes House
Lamar Smith, an eight-term Republican representing the Austin/Kerrville/ San Antonio areas of Texas in the House of Representatives, is the current chairman of the House Science Committee.The...
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NSF Escapes Attention in First Draft of Trump Budget
The first page of Donald Trump’s budget proposal sounds familiar themes from his campaign. The first swipe at a federal budget from the Donald Trump White House does not mention the National Science...
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House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith Will Not Seek Re-election
Lamar Smith attended Yale University and Southern Methodist University School of Law. Republican Congressman Lamar Smith, chairman of the House of Representatives science committee since 2013 and a...
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No, Most NSF Grad Student Funding Does Not Go to Social and Behavioral Science
Texas Republican Lamar Smith is the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. The head of the House science committee falsely claimed the National Science Foundation funds...
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Washington and Social Science: Science Chair Still Questions Value
Congress cleared the final fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act, and the president signed the measure into law, narrowly averting another government shutdown. The House and Senate approved...
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A Remedy for Broken Science, Or an Attempt to Undercut It?
David Randall and Christopher Welser are unlikely authorities on the reproducibility crisis in science. Randall, a historian and librarian, is the director of research at the National Association of...
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