This Week Archive

House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) wearing a mask at a hearing last week.

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Fauci Under Fire
ICE Rescinds Student Removal Policy
Defense and Spending Bills Advancing

WEEK OF JUL 20, 2020

Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Judge to Rule on ICE Student Removal Policy
House Appropriators Propose Billions in One-Time R&D Funds
Kratsios to Take Helm of Defense R&D

WEEK OF JUL 13, 2020

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), second from left, speaks at a hearing of the House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee, which drafts legislation that funds the Department of Energy and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Science Spending Bills Debut in House
Hurricane Dorian Investigation Faces Interference
PCAST Proposes Array of R&D Institutes

WEEK OF JUL 06, 2020

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Director Michael Witherell, left, leads PCAST members and staff on a tour of the lab in January. A.N. Sreeram, second from right, is the chair of the council’s Subcommittee on New Models of Engagement for Federal and Nationa

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PCAST Presenting Recommendations
Top Two Pentagon R&D Officials Resign
H-1B Visa Suspension Blasted

WEEK OF JUN 29, 2020

Sethuraman Panchanathan at a meeting of the National Science Board.

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Megacollider Gains Momentum
NSF Director Confirmed
Sweeping Research Security Bill Introduced

WEEK OF JUN 22, 2020

U.S. and Russian delegations met at the United Nations in 2010 during negotiations leading up to ratification of the New START Treaty, which entered into force in February 2011.

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Nuclear Negotiations Heat Up
Scientists Strike for Black Lives
Lawmakers Look to Supercharge Semiconductor R&D

WEEK OF JUN 15, 2020

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI).

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Scientific Societies Condemn Racial Injustice
Congress Turns to Defense and Spending Bills
'Urgent Redesign' Sought for National Nanotech Initiative

WEEK OF JUN 08, 2020

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, a former governor of Indiana and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is testifying this week on the case for reopening campuses this fall.

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Trump Restricts Entry of Chinese Students, Researchers
New Bill Would Bar Chinese Nationals from US-Funded Science
University Presidents to Testify on Campus Reopening

WEEK OF JUN 01, 2020

Neptune is the proposed destination for one of three flagship planetary science mission concepts to be discussed at a workshop this week. The last planetary science decadal survey recommended NASA send a flagship mission to either Uranus or Neptune, but t

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Lawmakers Propose NSF Technology Directorate
Planetary Science Survey Shifts Into Gear
Restrictions on STEM Visas Expected

WEEK OF MAY 26, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

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House Proposes New Research Relief
Senators Preview Research Security Bills
NASA Pitching ‘Artemis Accords’

WEEK OF MAY 18, 2020

Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary of health and human services for preparedness and response, testifying at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in 2018.

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House Republicans Set Up China Task Force
BARDA Whistleblower Testifies
Open Access RFI Responses Posted

WEEK OF MAY 11, 2020

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA).

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NIH Snagged in Pandemic Politics
DHS May Propose Visa Curbs
NSF Presenting 2030 Vision

WEEK OF MAY 04, 2020