Issued each Monday, FYI This Week highlights upcoming science policy events and summarizes news from the past week.

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich earth science satellite is scheduled to launch this weekend on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- Biden Names Science Agency Transition Teams
- Fringe Climatologist Takes Over National Assessment
- Freilich Earth Science Satellite Set for Launch
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
- Biden Names Pandemic Advisers
- Nuclear Security Chief Abruptly Resigns
- National Climate Assessment Director Appointed
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
Left: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Oct. 24. Right: President Donald Trump arriving in South Carolina for a rally on Oct. 15.
- Election Puts Science Policy at Crossroads
- DOE Accused of Suppressing Research Reports
- Student Visa Limitation Rule Under Fire
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
Black in Physics logo
- Event Series Spotlighting Black Physicists
- Administration Clamps Down on Foreign Skilled Worker Programs
- Trump Order Takes Aim at Senior Civil Servants
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
A composite image of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. 
- Asteroid Mission Attempting Sample Collection
- China Threatens Retaliation for Scientist Arrests
- DOE Selects Advanced Reactor Demo Projects
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
- SLAC Opens Accelerator Testing Facility
- Research Groups Protest Diversity Training Restrictions
- H-1B Requirements Tightened
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
The Founders Library Building at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Howard is the host for a newly announced Department of Defense Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
- Study on Defense R&D at HBCUs Begins
- Particle Physics Planning Ramps Up
- House Relief Bill Includes New Proposal for Research
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
- DHS Seeks Visa Length Caps
- Scientists Petition in ‘Defense of Democracy’
- FY2021 to Start With Stopgap Budget
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
- NASA Appeals for Artemis Funds
- Wildfires Bring Science to Political Fore
- Scientific Integrity Concerns Flare at CDC and NOAA
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web
Solar flare
- 1000+ Chinese Student, Researcher Visas Cancelled
- Fringe Climatologist Appointed at NOAA 
- Space Weather Bill Nears Finish Line
- Plus: Upcoming Events / Opportunities / Around the Web

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