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View of the U.S. Capitol building through trees.
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  • Science Proposals Vie for Inclusion in COVID Relief
  • Panel Urges Research Reactor Refit
  • Questions Remain on NSF Fellowship Priorities
WEEK OF AUG 03, 2020
The rocket nosecone containing the Mars Perseverance rover at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 7. 
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  • Mars Rover on Launchpad
  • DOE and NSF Advance Quantum Plans
  • Research Reactor Report Ready
WEEK OF JUL 27, 2020
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) wearing a mask at a hearing last week.
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  • Fauci Under Fire
  • ICE Rescinds Student Removal Policy
  • Defense and Spending Bills Advancing
WEEK OF JUL 20, 2020
Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Judge to Rule on ICE Student Removal Policy
  • House Appropriators Propose Billions in One-Time R&D Funds
  • Kratsios to Take Helm of Defense R&D
WEEK OF JUL 13, 2020
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), second from left, speaks at a hearing of the House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee, which drafts legislation that funds the Department of Energy and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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  • Science Spending Bills Debut in House
  • Hurricane Dorian Investigation Faces Interference
  • PCAST Proposes Array of R&D Institutes
WEEK OF JUL 06, 2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Director Michael Witherell, left, leads PCAST members and staff on a tour of the lab in January. A.N. Sreeram, second from right, is the chair of the council’s Subcommittee on New Models of Engagement for Federal and Nationa
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  • PCAST Presenting Recommendations
  • Top Two Pentagon R&D Officials Resign
  • H-1B Visa Suspension Blasted
WEEK OF JUN 29, 2020
Sethuraman Panchanathan at a meeting of the National Science Board.
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  • Megacollider Gains Momentum
  • NSF Director Confirmed
  • Sweeping Research Security Bill Introduced
WEEK OF JUN 22, 2020
U.S. and Russian delegations met at the United Nations in 2010 during negotiations leading up to ratification of the New START Treaty, which entered into force in February 2011.
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  • Nuclear Negotiations Heat Up
  • Scientists Strike for Black Lives
  • Lawmakers Look to Supercharge Semiconductor R&D
WEEK OF JUN 15, 2020
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI).
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  • Scientific Societies Condemn Racial Injustice
  • Congress Turns to Defense and Spending Bills
  • 'Urgent Redesign' Sought for National Nanotech Initiative
WEEK OF JUN 08, 2020
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, a former governor of Indiana and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is testifying this week on the case for reopening campuses this fall.
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  • Trump Restricts Entry of Chinese Students, Researchers
  • New Bill Would Bar Chinese Nationals from US-Funded Science
  • University Presidents to Testify on Campus Reopening
WEEK OF JUN 01, 2020
Neptune is the proposed destination for one of three flagship planetary science mission concepts to be discussed at a workshop this week. The last planetary science decadal survey recommended NASA send a flagship mission to either Uranus or Neptune, but t
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  • Lawmakers Propose NSF Technology Directorate
  • Planetary Science Survey Shifts Into Gear
  • Restrictions on STEM Visas Expected
WEEK OF MAY 26, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
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  • House Proposes New Research Relief
  • Senators Preview Research Security Bills
  • NASA Pitching ‘Artemis Accords’
WEEK OF MAY 18, 2020