收到一封BPS的信，关于FY 2011 funding package, H.R. 1
NIH: -$1.6 B
NSF: -$359.5 M
DOE: -$886 M
我老估计，就现在巴马这个熊样，这个法案八成是要通过了。想找珀斯到，老板没钱。
想找发考题，申不到方鼎。一堆生
物wsn/nv们，包括老美自己，涌到已经哀鸿遍野的industry，更没H1的机会了。依我看
，趁早联系海龟的退路吧。
Impact of the Proposed Cuts:
· Layoffs of thousands of highly skilled scientists, engineers,
technologists, and support personnel and
contractors at both national laboratories and universities.
· A sharp reduction in the operation and in some instances the
complete shutdown of major DOE
research facilities in which the U.S. government has already invested
substantial resources. These facilities
are home to unique, complex, and expensive scientific tools and instruments
found few places in the world.
These facilities enable U.S. scientists and engineers from both industry and
universities to perform cutting-
edge research in areas such as high energy and nuclear physics, magnetic
fusion, heavy-element chemistry,
nanotechnology, high-performance computing, advanced materials, and
structural biology.
· Elimination of current government support for hundreds of PhD
researchers and graduate students in
university research programs all across the country, which could purge a
whole generation of scientists and
engineers, and would send a very negative signal to industry, the science
and technology community, and
young American students contemplating careers in science and engineering
calling into question Congress
commitment to U.S. scientific research essential for our continued global
competitiveness and long-term
energy security.
· Further declines in the already-low grant success rates at NSF
and NIH. Even at current funding levels
grant success rates for many NSF and NIH research programs are already at or
below 20 percent.
· 500 fewer NSF research awards, supporting 5,500 fewer researchers
, students, and technical support
personnel than in FY 2010. Awards for new NSF research and science and
technology centers in areas of
science and engineering such as nanotechnology and materials research will
likely be significantly curtailed.
· Cuts to important NSF support for science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) education
programs at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. This would
include reductions in NSF graduate
fellowships, traineeships, and young investigator awards.
· Cuts to DOE, NSF and NIH would result in layoffs of scientists,
engineers, technologists, and support
personnel at national laboratories and universities across the country.
These workers are vital to American
innovation.
