A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That’s the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday\u00c2\u00a0to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million.\u00c2\u00a0 Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), applauding what he called the lawmakers’ “strong support for science.\u00c2\u00a0 The bill (HR 2642) contains $62.5 million each for NSF, NASA, and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science and $150 million more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)<\/p>\n
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The House demonstrated its strong support for education by funneling two-thirds of the supplemental funding into NSF’s efforts to train science teachers. In addition to doubling the current $10 million budget for\u00c2\u00a0 the supplemental bill\u00c2\u00a0which pays savvy college graduates to earn master’s degrees and become\u00c2\u00a0 teachers in the public schools and also improves the skills of existing teachers<\/p>\n
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A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That’s the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday\u00c2\u00a0to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million.\u00c2\u00a0 Arden Bement, director … Continue reading