Job Growth During the Recovery, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made available to the public include the following.
Job Growth During the Recovery, updated October 16, 2012
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): Funding Issues After a Decade of Implementation, FY2004-FY2013, October 10, 2012
Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview, updated October 1, 2012
Venezuela: Issues for Congress, updated October 16, 2012
Georgia’s October 2012 Legislative Election: Outcome and Implications, October 15, 2012
Iran Sanctions, updated October 15, 2012
Science funding agencies are biased against risk, making transformative research difficult to fund. Forecast-based approaches to grantmaking could improve funding outcomes for high-risk, high-reward research.
Establishing an NIH Office of Infection-Associated Chronic Illness Research can guard against the long-term effects of Covid and lead to novel breakthroughs across many less understood diseases.
A military depot in central Belarus has recently been upgraded with additional security perimeters and an access point that indicate it could be intended for housing Russian nuclear warheads for Belarus’ Russia-supplied Iskander missile launchers.
With a PhD in materials science, a postdoc position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a stint as a AAAS Fellow, Dr. Shawn Chen has had a range of roles in the research community.