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Materials
Policy News
(MRS Bulletin Staff and Reporters)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(October 2005) 
LEDs and U.K. energy policy; U.S. DOE and solar energy technologies; Scientific council of the European Research Council; FinnSight 2015 project
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(September 2005)
Beijing U.S. Embassy extends terms of visa validity; U.S. DOE office in Beijing; News from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chile taxes mining to fund R&D; Inside India, news on energy
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(August 2005)
U.S. faces global competition in nanotechnology; 2005-2006 Jefferson Science Fellows includes Alex King, past MRS President; France to host ITER; India and Canada to sign agreement on science and technology
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(July 2005)
Report on DoD basic research seeks to redress imbalances in unfettered research efforts; MATERA brings together policymakers in European materials research; India, Singapore sign agreement for joint university degrees in materials
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(June 2005)
Report warns of U.S. decline in innovation, R&D investment; Hydrogen energy technology in India; European hydrogen and fuel cell industry sets out blueprint; South Africa's CSIR appoints R&D Executive
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(May 2005)
DHS initiative focuses on nuclear detection materials; EU Nanotech delegation visits New Zealand; C.N.R. Rao appointed Chair of India's science advisory council; Euroscience open forum 2006 launches call for proposals
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(April 2005)
U.S. may be abondoning leadership in science and innovation; European Science Foundation calls for exploratory workshops proposals; Bright future for U.K. materials industry; Chinese scientists present 100 interdisciplinary problems in 21st century; South Korea's defense R&D budget to double by 2015
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(March 2005)
Taxing times for U.K. academic spin-offs; NSF reports increase in science and engineering PhD degrees in 2003; Spain revamps postdoc repatriation scheme
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(February 2005)
US National Academies promote interdisciplinary research; Electronics industry drives R&D in Finland; Chinese Academy scientists appeal to US regarding visa situation; Nanoforum releases survey results on European strategy for Nanotechnology
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(January 2005)
US Congress reduces NSF budget; New NSF Director; Finland agency launches FinNano; Germany and UK to form partnership for climate change research; New Zealand uncovers S&T opportunities in North Asia
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(December 2004)
US competitiveness in IT depends on innovation; UK find materials engineers in short supply; Output of Latin American S&E articles nearly triples
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(November 2004)
Massive scare over Tiny Tech; NRS report recommends new power sources for soldier of the future; ANSI nanotechnology standards panel holds first meeting; Success of China's 863 program upgrades industries
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(October 2004)
NSF weaves a global network; US DOE and France's CEA sign agreement for nuclear energy research; New Zealand joins Australian synchrotron partnership; Germany's "nanotruck" presents interactive view of nanotechnologies; US national science board publishes S&E indicators
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(September 2004)
Materials fare well in U.K. government's renewed push for R&D; Research Council of Norway announces materials foresight program; Australia releases energy report; New Zealand and U.S. consolidate partnership on climate change
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(August 2004)
NIST's advanced measurement laboratory; U.S. ITER Project Office to be located near Princeton; Europe to identify strategic research agenda for nanoelectronics; South Africa launches center of excellence in strong materials; Chinese Academy of Sciences General Assembly touches on materials
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(July 2004)
Industry, academic leaders advocate basic research in physical sciences; U.K. 10-year strategic plan for science; Canada's "Hydrogen Highway"; S&T in India needs more funding
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(June 2004)
Restoring funding for NIST; U.S. National Academies free scientific information to developing nations; EU steel technology platform; Policy news from South Africa, Brazil, China, Chile, Denmark
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(May 2004)
US Dept. of Energy long-term hydrogen research plan; US visa delays for science students and scholars; European comission announces NEST visionary research projects
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin
(April 2004)
Rita Colwell retires from NSF; U.S. Dept.of Homeland Security highlights S&T achievements/priorities; Indian S&T ministry highlights 2003 achievements; Chinese Academy of Sciences basic research priorities; European hydrogen teechnology platform; China-U.S.-Russia global research network
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (March 2004)
White House announces FY2005 budget request for R&D; South Korea to bring jobs to science sector; Ireland's budget and encouragement for knowledge-based economy; Finnish academy in search of new Centers of Excellence
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (February 2004)
Nanotechnology Research and Development act approved; EC promotes photovoltaics research; South Korea expands international cooperation in nuclear energy projects; South Korea & Germany open joint R&D research institution; European Science Foundation appoints Director of Science and Strategy
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (January 2004)
20-year DOE plan for science facilities; NSF funding in omnibus appropriations bill; New Chinese international materials technology promotion center; Australian energy initiative; Policy news from Sri Lanka; Improving New Zealand's IT infrastructure
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (December 2003)
Additional funding, basic research critical to achieving hydrogen economy; Korea-China science ministers' meeting; New Zealand explores S&T collaborations with EU; COHMAG solicits input for high magnetic field science
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (November 2003)
NSB report on potential shortfall in future S&E workforce;
Australian materials technology network; Australian research
information infrastructure launched; U.K. releases Nanotechnology
report.
Public
Affairs Forum from the MRS Bulletin
Bringing Science and Technology Back to Congress
U.S. Representative R.D. Holt
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (October 2003)
Visa woes adversely affect physical science departments, industry,
plus science policy news from Japan, India and Europe
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (September 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (August 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (July 2003)
PCAST Releases Tech Transfer Report
J. Ouellette
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (June 2003)
ASTRA Faces Toughest Budget Climate Yet
J. Ouellette
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (May 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (April 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (March 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (February 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (January 2003)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (December 2002)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (November 2002)
Science Policy News from the MRS Bulletin (October 2002)
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin (September 2002)
Support for DOE's Office of Science, E-mail Alert
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin (August 2002)
Washington News from the July 2002 issue
of the MRS Bulletin (July
2002)
Rep.
Bingaman Outlines His Funding Requests for Sandia and Los Alamos
Labs
Sen.
Domenici Warns Against Gutting NIST Manufacturing Extension Progam
U.S.
Department of Energy and Canadian Department of Natural Resources
Strengthen Energy Relationship between the Two Countries
Nonproliferation
Agreement between United States and Uzbekistan Protects Nuclear
Materials and Technologies
Berkeley
Lab Offers Homeland Security Expertise
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin
(April 2002)
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin
(March 2002)
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin
(February 2002)
Washington News from the MRS Bulletin
(January 2002)
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Materials
Policy News
(External Sources)
News
What We are Talking About: What is Innovation and Why is It Important?
Presentation by Prof. Mary L. Good (Donaghey University Professor and Dean, University of Arkansas at Little Rock) at the National Academies' Accelerating Innovation Conference, October 19, 2005
[The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America (ASTRA)]
(10.21.2005)
U.S. Science Committee Reviews Nanotechnology Initiative Report
FYI Report
U.S. House Subcommittee on Research has held two hearings to review the conclusions of a nanotechnology report prepared by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
(7.13.05)
U.S. May Be Abandoning Leadership in Science and Innovation, Business, Academic Leaders Warn; Call for Boost in Federal Research
The Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, a coalition of high-tech industry, scientific societies, and higher education associations, warned today that the United States is in danger of losing its leadership role in science and innovation, a position it has held with a firm grip since the end of World War II.
[The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge?, PDF Document] (2.17.05)
R&D Programs Face Another Rough Year in 2006
(AAAS)
Cuts for Many, Gains for Space and Homeland Security
AAAS Preliminary Analysis of R&D in the FY 2006 Budget (2.10.05)
US Visa Difficulties Are Lessening, but More Must Be Done
(Physics Today, February 2005)
Security concerns remain paramount in the handling of US visas for international students and scientists, but efforts by science and education organizations to improve the process seem to be paying off. (2.2.2005)
Science and Engineering Virtual Town Hall Meetings
Proposed for this fall (2004). The meetings represent an opportunity for President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry to interact with scientists and engineers working in industry, national laboratories, and universities across the United States.
Science R&D Requests for FY 2005 Budget
Analysis
Visas for Science
Boston Globe (Apr. 21, 2004)
Fewer Foreigners Applying to Graduate School in the U.S.
Fort Worth Star Telegram (Apr. 10, 2004)
U.S. Dept of Energy
Office of Science
20-Year Vision for the Future of Basic Research
(Feb. 12, 2004)
U.S. Congressional Recognition for the Fellows
Program (PDF)
October 28, 2003, Congressional Record relating to H. Con. Res.
279 recognizing the contributions of the Science and Technology
Fellows program
NSF
Funding -- R&D Budget Analysis
AAAS analysis of the spending bill approved by the U.S. house
of representatives indicates that it would provide the NSF with
fewer funds than necessary to put it on a track to double funding
by 2007. (September 2, 2003)
National Academies: U.S. Visas Information
Latest visa information
for visiting scientists and scholars, and advice for organizers
of international scientific meetings in the United States. Also
included is a questionnaire through which scientists, engineers,
medical professionals, and scholars can report their difficulties
with the U.S. visa process.
OSTP:
Agenda for the Future
Presentation by Dr. Kathie
L. Olsen, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President of
the U.S.A., to the Alliance for Science and Technology Research
in America (ASTRA).
(July 15, 2003)
NSF Solicits Comments on Draft Strategic
Plan
The National Science Foundation is soliciting comments on the
draft of its updated strategic plan. Comments should be forwarded
to stratplan@nsf.gov.
AAAS
Analysis of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) R&D
The DHS will become one of the major funding sources of R&D
in FY 2004, with a nearly 60 percent increase from FY 2003 funding,
and $148 million more
than the request. Included in this funding for FY 2004 would
be $900 million for R&D activities in the new S&T Directorate
of the DHS and $890 million for
the non-R&D Project Bioshield to procure biodefense countermeasures.
(July 10, 2003)
Nanotechnology
Bill Clears House
Boehlert hails "big step
for 'small' science"
The full U.S. House passed
Science Committee legislation on May 7, 2003, by a vote of 405
to 19, which would authorize a national nanotechnology research
and development program. (May 7, 2003)
The AIP State Department Science Fellowship
Program
AIP will sponsor at least one Fellow
annually to spend a year working in a bureau or office of the
State Department. This is an opportunity for a scientist to provide
scientific and technical expertise to the Department, and help
raise awareness of the value of scientific input, while learning
about and contributing to the foreign policy process. (October
24, 2002)
New Nanotechnology Bill Introduced
A bill (S. 2945) that would expand on the current National Nanotechnology
Initiative (NNI) was passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee on September 19.
(October 5, 2002)
Nanotechnology: Testimony
of R. Stanley Williams HP Fellow Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
on behalf of the Hewlett-Packard Company before the Subcommittee
on Science, Technology and Space of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation of the United States Senate, September
17, 2002
Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology
Policy Internship Program
of the National Academies for 2003 Announced (September 10, 2002)
Senate
Education Committee Approves Version of Bipartisan Tech Talent
Bill (September 10, 2002)
ASTRA
(Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America) statement on "Proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the NSF" and "Focusing on math and science
research & Development and Education in the 21st century".
(July 31, 2002)
House
Passes Tech Talent Bill
(July 9, 2002)
The U.S. House of Representatives approved by voice vote a Science
Committee bill to bolster undergraduate science and math education
and increase the United States' technical workforce.
NCI/NASA
Announce Development of Biomolecular Sensors Program
U.S.
House of Representatives Passes NSF Doubling Legislation (June 5, 2002)
ASTRA
(Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America) Testimony
before PCAST
Committee
Introduces Bill to Put NSF on Doubling Track (May 7, 2002)
Members of the House Science Committee today introduced legislation
that would place the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a track
to double the agency's budget in five years. The bill, H.R. 4664,
authorizes a 15 percent increase for NSF for each of the next
three years.
REPORTS
American Chemical Society
Science
and Technology at the Dept. of Homeland Security
Slides, audio and video from June 26 briefing
Defense Horizons
The Silence of the Labs
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/DH21/DH_21.htm
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2001
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf03300
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Latin America: High-Tech Manufacturing on the Rise, but Outpaced
by East Asia
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02331
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function: Fiscal Years 2001-03
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02330
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipient:
1991-2000
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02329
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United
States: 1999
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02328
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966-2000
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02327
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Older Doctoral Scientists and Engineers: Selected Labor Force
Characteristics
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02324
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Proposed FY 2003 Budget Would Complete Plan to Double Health
R&D Funding, Considerably Expand Defense R&D
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02326
National Science Foundation (NSF)
How Large is the U.S. S&E Workforce?
(Posted July 26, 2002)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Changes
in Federal and Non-Federal Support for Academic R&D Over
the Past Three Decades
(Posted July 15, 2002)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Half
the Nation's R&D Concentrated in Six States
(Posted July 15, 2002)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal
Years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (Posted June 12, 2002)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Annotated List of 36 Federally Funded Research
and Development Centers (FFRDC): Fiscal Year 2002 (Posted
June 05, 2002)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Doctoral Scientists and Engineers: 1997 Profile
Tables (Posted May 29, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Science
and Engineering State Profiles: 1999-2000 (Posted May 08,
2002)
National Science Board
Toward a More Effective Role for the U.S. Government
in International Science and Engineering (Posted April 25,
2002)
National Science Foundation
Graduate
Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: Fall
2000 (Posted April 24, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Federal
Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and
Nonprofit Institutions: Fiscal Year 2000 (Posted April 24,
2002)
National Science Foundation
Changing
Composition of Federal Funding for Research and Development and
R&D Plant Since 1990 (Posted April 24, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Declines in U.S. Doctorate Awards in Physics
and and Engineering (Posted April 18, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Research
and Development in Industry: 1999 (Posted April 17, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Scientists,
Engineers, and Technicians in the United States: 1998 (Posted
April 12, 2002)
National Science Foundation
FY
2001 GPRA [Government Performance and Results Act] Performance
Report (Posted April 01, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Interstate
Migration Patterns of Recent Science and Engineering Doctorate
Recipients (Posted March 12, 2002)
National Science Foundation
"Toward an International Materials Research
Network" Status Report (Posted March 19, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Science
and Engineering Research Facilities: 2001 (Posted March 05,
2002)
National Science Foundation
Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Supplement
to Current NSF Awards (Posted March 01, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Federal Academic Science and Engineering Obligations
Increased 10 Percent in FY 2000 (Posted February 28, 2002)
National Science Foundation
Academic Research and Development Expenditures:
Fiscal Year 2000 (Posted February 22, 2002)
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