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Building Environmental Justice: Alexa White

…started. She followed up her policy memo by joining the first cohort of FAS’ Policy Entrepreneurship Fellows (PEF). During her time as a PEF, White joined with FAS staffers conducting…

04.18.24 | 3 min read
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Science Policy
day one project
Policy Memo
Improve Extreme Heat Monitoring by Launching Cross-Agency Temperature Network

…serve as a foundation for developing extreme heat forecasting models, which would enable governing bodies to develop and execute response plans in a timely fashion. In addition, the publicly available…

04.01.24 | 7 min read
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FAS
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Building a Digital Justice Framework: FAS Policy Entrepreneur Fellow Monica Sanders

What is policy entrepreneurship? It is the practice of recognizing a problem and proposing a solution through policy. It is central to our work at FAS and our Day One…

03.26.24 | 3 min read
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FAS
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Renewing the Call for Bold Policy Ideas

…circles but is where some of the best ideas can originate. At FAS, we take our role in creating the platform to democratize the policy making process seriously and seek…

03.21.24 | 4 min read
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Technology & Innovation
Report
Predicting Progress: A Pilot of Expected Utility Forecasting in Science Funding

…Chiara Franzoni and Paula Stephan have proposed using expected utility in peer review. Building off of their paper, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) developed a detailed framework for how…

03.18.24 | 27 min read
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