April 2012 - GovAffairs

Members of Congress Defend “Frivolous-sounding” Research That Really Pays Off at “Golden Goose Awards”

April 27, 2012/In: Funding, Policy, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

The Washington Post has a great write-up of an event on April 25th put on by an alliance of academic and scientific societies and a bi-partisan group of Congressmen that sought to highlight the incredible payoff of research that “may once have been viewed as unusual, odd, or obscure.” The event, called the Golden Goose […]

NSF, NIST Fare OK in First FY13 Spending Bill Drafts

April 19, 2012/In: Funding, FY13 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have just released their drafts (House – Senate) of the FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, and the numbers look pretty decent for NSF and NIST. Short version: NSF would see an increase of 4.3 percent overall in FY13; NIST would see increases of $54-56 million to its core […]

Undergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise for Fourth Straight Year — CRA Taulbee Report

April 9, 2012/In: Computing Education, CRA, Diversity in Computing, People /by Peter Harsha

Enrollments in undergraduate computer science programs rose 9.6 percent in the 2011-12 school year, the fourth straight year of increase, according to new data released today by the Computing Research Association. The data, found in the CRA Taulbee Survey report Computing Degree and Enrollment Trends, 2010-2011, compares schools that responded to both this year’s survey […]

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