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Tracking Extreme Heat Federal Policy and Funding

…resilience to the impending heat waves.  To begin to respond to this urgent need at the federal level, FAS engaged +85 federal policy experts and recruited 33 authors to work…

05.01.24 | 3 min read
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FAS
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Building Health Equity: Grace Wickerson

By their own account, Grace Wickerson was always an organizer and activist for societal progress. As early as high school, Grace educated peers about interpersonal violence, even convincing their school…

04.30.24 | 3 min read
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Social Innovation
Report
K-12 STEM Education For the Future Workforce: A Wish List for the Next Five Year Plan

…career opportunities will grow 10.8% by 2032, more than four times faster than non-STEM occupations. What the United States has going for it in 2024 (and was comparatively lacking in…

04.29.24 | 37 min read
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Science Policy
Blog
The Wildfire Crisis and FAS: A Story of Policy Entrepreneurship

…innovations our community surfaced after that initial tranche of memos. It’s also useful to reflect on how FAS, as an organization, has developed institutional infrastructure to support more policy entrepreneurs,…

04.24.24 | 5 min read
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FAS
Press release
Federation of American Scientists Among Leading Technology Organizations Pushing Congress to Support Responsible AI Innovation NIST Funding Request

…Established in 1945 by scientists in response to the atomic bomb, FAS continues to work on behalf of a safer, more equitable, and more peaceful world. More information at fas.org….

04.23.24 | 4 min read
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