Last month, the Department of Veterans Affairs conducted GI Bill implementation meetings around the country. The PowerPoint presentation utilized in the sessions is available for download at www.acenet.edu/stws under the heading “ACE, VA Convened Regional Meetings on New GI Bill Implementation.” Additionally, application guidelines for the ACE/Wal-Mart Success for Veterans Award Grants are also available on this web site.
Month: February 2009
NSF Releases Report on Cost Sharing for Public Comment
As part of a continuing review of cost-sharing policies at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Science Board (NSB) issued a report on January 21st, which reaffirms that mandatory cost sharing should be required for a limited number of programs where it is appropriate and recommends prohibiting “voluntary committed” cost sharing in solicited and unsolicited grant proposals (“voluntary committed” cost sharing means that institutional resources are formally pledged to a specific sponsored project, and the pledge is binding and auditable to that project when the grant is awarded).
The NSB report “Investing in the Future: NSF Cost Sharing Policies for a Robust Federal Research Enterprise” makes several important recommendations. The NSB is requesting written comments about the recommendations by Monday, February 16, 2009.
The draft NSF report can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/committees/cs/index.jsp
Congressman Baird to Chair S&T Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
The Democratic members of the House Committee on Science and Technology formally elected their subcommittee chairs last week. Congressman Brian Baird (D-WA) was elected as chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, while Congressman Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) will take up the role of chair of the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education vacated by Baird.