News tagged with research funding

Construction starts on new marine research vessel

Construction of Australia's new $120 million Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator has started in Singapore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

States reduce funding for research universities

States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Funding for nonhuman primate research questioned

A major review of nonhuman primate use in medical research has been conducted in the UK by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, who is the president of the Zoological Society of London and an ethnologist from Cambridge University, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Banning federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research would derail related work

(PhysOrg.com) -- Banning federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research would have "disastrous consequences" on the study of a promising and increasingly popular new stem cell type that is not derived ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Obama administration to appeal stemcell research ruling

The US Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal as early as this week a judge's decision to block federal funding for stemcell research.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US court halts government funding of stem cell research (Update)

A US court on Monday ordered a temporary halt to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which President Barack Obama had authorized, saying it involved the destruction of human embryos.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 278

New report urges broad changes in mathematics education relationships

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) indicates that changes to the nature of the relationships between researchers and mathematics educators could benefit both. ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Era of rapid growth in biomedical research over

After a decade of remarkable growth, total annual funding for biomedical research in the U.S. has decelerated and may have even fallen when adjusted for inflation. That is the conclusion of a study today published in the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to encourage big ideas

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests certain types of funding -- which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results -- lead to more innovative and influential research.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

UK Research Funding to Reward Economic Benefits

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK government is developing a new scheme, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), to assess university research proposals and allocate public funds for research. The scheme is being developed in collaboration ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 weblog

Obama to reverse Bush limits on stem-cell research

US President Barack Obama will on Monday sign an executive order reversing Bush administration restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research, a senior administration official said.

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 31