News from Computing Research Policy Blog that the new omnibus appropriations bill will totally hammer the NSF and NIST. Effectively, factoring in some accounting and inflation, both budgets will be shrunk. So much for the America Competes Initiative. I've appropriately updated the probability that I will be employed in the next few years.
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From the Federation of American Scientists for Experimental Biology (for all you non-biologists who are wondering who FASEB is):
Urge Congress to Support Research
Increase for NIH and NSF Depends On It!
Every year in the U.S., more than 32,000 people die due to gun-related violence, suicide and accidents. That number includes the deaths of seven children and teens every day.
Talking Points Memo is not impressed with the Presidential Signing Statement either...
[Originally posted in December, 2006]
so you recommend me,an EE graduate,not to enter Physics for graduate school?
:-/