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[USA] Political Science: Physicist Bill Foster Heads Back to Congress

[USA] Political Science: Physicist Bill Foster Heads Back to Congress | Higher Education and academic research | Scoop.it
From news.sciencemag.org - November 19, 2012 8:28 AM

ou can't question Bill Foster's determination. After losing his seat in the House of Representatives two years ago, the Illinois Democrat snagged a different one as he trounced seven-term House veteran Judy Biggert (R-IL) in the contest to represent the state's newly drawn 11th district. An independently wealthy businessman and a particle physicist by training, Foster worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, for 22 years before leaving in 2006. When he takes office in January, he will be one of two Ph.D. physicists in Congress. [The other will be Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ), a plasma physicist who will return for his eighth term in the House.] (...) - ScienceInsider, by Adrian Cho, 14 November 2012

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Italian Government Seeks Massive Research Merger

From news.sciencemag.org - October 14, 2012 3:33 PM

ROME—A new plan to radically overhaul and streamline Italy's research system has been heavily criticized by many of the heads of the country's research institutes. The plan, put forward by research minister Francesco Profumo, would see all 12 institutes overseen by the research ministry incorporated into a single new entity, the National Research Centre (CNR). Critics say the reform is rushed and threatens the future of fields in which Italy currently excels.

The reform is contained within the budget bill for 2013 agreed upon by the caretaker government of Mario Monti on Tuesday night, and comes on top of proposed major budget cuts at Italy's government institutes, announced in July but not yet implemented.(...) - by Edwin Cartlidge, ScienceInsider, 12 October 2012

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