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Ballots and Budgets
Can the care and feeding of science win support and votes for a politician? From the record of recent presidential campaigns, including the current marathon, the candidates don’t think so. None among the platoon of
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The Federal Budget Season
Apple-picking, leaf piles, and pumpkins — all things that come with fall here in the East. But there’s another thing that’s synonymous with fall hereabouts: the annual Congressional scramble to pass the federal budget that
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We Need a Second NIH
“In my opinion, the greatest risk for science is to stop taking risks,” Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has written. In furtherance of this theme, which holds sacred status
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From There to Here: Testifying Before Congress
When I defended my dissertation one year ago, I had no inkling that I’d be testifying in front of a Congressional committee soon afterward. Talk about life taking a path uncharted! I recently had the
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How to Avoid the Budget Blues: Q&A with Grant Swinger
Following is an interview with Dr. Grant Swinger, Director of the Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds, who spoke with Daniel S. Greenberg, a Washington journalist. Greenberg has previously interviewed Dr. Swinger for Science
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Congress Reauthorizes NIH
After 13 years, Congress finally reauthorized the National Institutes of Health under the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, setting priorities for the restructuring and funding of the $30 billion agency. NIH was
