End-of-the-Week Review
Francis Collins steps down as the head of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Speculation on his next career move ranges from private sector work to a possible nod to head the National Institutes of Health.
New York City hosts the first World Science Festival. Experts and public officials took the opportunity to decry U.S. attitudes toward scientific enterprise; Mayor Bloomberg attacked official manipulation, distortion, or ignorance of science for political ends. (NRDC President Frances Beinecke has more on that at Switchboard.)
A new book on the intricacies of stem cell research, The Stem Cell Dilemma, makes C-Span’s Book TV.
Tomorrow is the last day for regular price register for the Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference. This year’s focus is on “Rejuvenating Public Sector Science“—a topic David Michaels highlights in his recent interview.
CongressDaily (subscription) reports that the Iraq supplemental funding bill that passed the Senate last week contained $1.2 billion in federal R&D to make up for cuts in the 2008 omnibus spending package approved by Congress in December. The funding faces higher hurdles in the House, which did not include the science supplemental in its version. The legislation would include $100 million for the DoE office of Science. Fermilab is one major research institution that would benefit from the boost—it is poised to layoff 140 staffers because of unanticipated cuts in the FY2008 budget.
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