Committees Propose Energy Research Increase
BU IN DC
Dean Hardin Coleman and over fifty School of Education faculty, staff, and students participated in the American Education Research Association’s annual meeting between April 8 and 12. The School also hosted a reception featuring Alma J. Powell, the chair of the America’s Promise Alliance.
Linda Hyman of the School of Medicine spoke at a National Institute of General Medical Sciences symposium on modernizing graduate education on April 11.
BUZZ BITS…
- John Grunsfeld will retire from his role as associate administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Science Mission Directorate, a position he has held since 2012.
- Eric Dishman has been selected as the director of the National Institute of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.
- Seth Frotman will be the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman and Assistant Director for the Office for Students and Young Consumers.
- BU alumnus Matthew Lehrich (CAS ’07) will be nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the Department of Education’s communications and outreach efforts.
COMMITTEES PROPOSE ENERGY RESEARCH INCREASE
Spending committees in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate proposed to increase funding for both the Office of Science and the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy. A House Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate Appropriations Committee each passed bills that would provide $5.4 billion for the Office of Science in fiscal year 2017, a $50 million increase over this year. The House bill would boost ARPA-E’s budget by 5% to $305.8 million, while the Senate would allocate $292 million. The bills will need to be approved by their respective chambers of Congress, merged, and signed by the President before they become law, but the show of support early in the legislative process bodes well for energy research.
EVENT NEWS YOU CAN USE
You do important research — how do you make sure the public knows it? Find out at a media training session hosted by BU Research on April 21. Tom Testa of BU Public Relations will demonstrate how to conduct public storytelling, elevate your message to key stakeholders, use social media, and translate complex research into compelling, understandable narratives.