EPA External Research Grants Program faces steep budget cuts

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2000 Research Grants--FANRR-20

This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to encourage new and innovative studies of food security, hunger, and publicand private-sector efforts to alleviate these problems among lowincome residents of the United States through food and nutrition assistance. The report ...

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Budget cuts to the U.S. EPA will reduce government data on pollutants, and increase reliance on industry data.

The PRIME Lab external research program

PRIME Lab has a multidisciplinary external research program with projects in geomorphology, hydrology, ocean science, planetary science, environmental science and biology. Introduction PRIME Lab is a national AMS facility for measurement of the long lived cosmogenic nuclides Be, C, Al, Cl, Ca, and I [1]. Since its inception in 1991 we have chemically processed over 2000 samples and have measure...

Research Grants Studies

Section 1110 of the Social Security Act provides for a cooperative research grants program. The grants given by the Social Security Administration (SSA) under this program are to nonprofit organizations for research in the broad area of social security. Reports on six recently completed grants projects are summarized below, accompanied by a list of completed SSA research grants projects, with t...