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Une centaine d'étudiants de l'Université de Montréal ont manifesté mardi midi devant le pavillon Roger-Gaudry pour exiger la démission du recteur, Guy Breton.
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It's a tradition for some Republicans in Congress to take aim at research grants that they think are irrelevant and not worthy of taxpayer funding. Now, the chair of the House of Representatives spending panel that funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is claiming that some federally funded biomedical research violates government restrictions on lobbying state lawmakers or Congress. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Jocelyn Kaiser on 28 March 2013 Delete the scoop?
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Director lays out workforce initiatives geared towards early-career scientists.
For years, the US National Institutes of Health has struggled with promoting non-academic career tracks for biomedical scientists, gauging the supply of PhD holders and demand for research jobs, enticing under-represented minorities into science and establishing funding avenues for early-career researchers. Hoping to bring some evidence-based clarity to these issues, NIH director Francis Collins asked two working groups of the NIH Advisory Committee to study the issues and make recommendations. They released their recommendations in two reports in June; Collins responded in December. (...) - by Gene Russo, Naturejobs, Nature 493, 443-444 (2013) Delete the scoop?
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Biomedical Careers - Although some social scientists and biomedical researchers have complained that U.S. universities are training far more graduate students and postdocs than will ever find jobs in academic research, and others argue that any potential oversupply will find jobs in industry or other sectors, almost everyone agrees: The current training system takes too long and isn't designed to prepare young biomedical scientists for nonacademic jobs. So last week, the National Institutes of Health announced a plan to prepare scientists for a range of careers, move students through their Ph.D.s faster, and bolster the pay of postdocs. Officials say the changes are not aimed at reducing or even stabilizing the number of graduates but are intended to improve the training experience. (...) Science, Vol. 338 no. 6113 p. 1405 , by Jocelyn Kaiser, 14 December 2012
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Frightened by the possibility of massive cuts to domestic spending starting next month, U.S. scientific societies have spent months urging their members to help make the case for federally funded research. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Jeffrey Mervis on 10 December 2012
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Quashing hopes raised by a recent news report, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will not reverse a controversial policy that gives researchers only one chance to resubmit a rejected research grant proposal.(...) - ScienceInsider, by Jocelyn Kaiser on 28 November 2012 Delete the scoop?
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Scientists already feeling the bite of US budget sequester.
Daniel Kiehart, a biophysicist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has put off the US$8,000 recharge of the gas laser he uses to probe a key motor protein in Drosophila embryos. In December, he bought his own airline ticket to a meeting in San Francisco, California. And two weeks ago, when his senior postdoc handed in her notice, he did not move to replace her. “I just can’t do that right now,” says Kiehart. (...) - by Meredith Wadman, Nature, 12 February 2013 Delete the scoop?
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Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA), the incoming chair of the U.S. House of Representatives panel that controls the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has a long-standing reputation as a conservative budget hawk intent on reducing government spending. He's also known for being skeptical that humans are contributing to climate change and for rejecting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. But although that record might make many scientists anxious, his reputation as an inside operator who understands the importance of funding research makes many science boosters breathe a little easier. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Randy Barrett on 7 January 2013 Delete the scoop?
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US agency aims to expand training options for graduate students and to increase demographic diversity. (...) - Nature, by Meredith Wadman, 12 December 2012
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Reacting to a steep rise in the number of young biomedical scientists seeking scarce academic jobs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch programs to prepare scientists for nonacademic careers, move students through their Ph.D.s faster, and bolster the pay of postdocs. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Jocelyn Kaiser on 7 December 2012
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For the NIH, President Obama’s first term brought a funding windfall. Now its director, Francis Collins, faces a tightening budget.
When physician and geneticist Francis Collins took the helm of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August 2009, the agency was flush with a one-time, US$8.2-billion injection of research funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Since then, Collins, who headed the Human Genome Project, has had to fit his considerable ambitions to a stagnating NIH budget. He spoke to Nature about his time guiding the $31-billion agency. (...) - by Meredith Wadman, Nature, 26 September 2012 Delete the scoop?
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