This note is from the AIBS Public Policy Report. At a time when the
success rate of research proposals submitted to the Division of
Environmental Biology has dropped to under 4% (I think I got that
information correct), you might want to ask your Senator to support
this effort. I require my undergraduate students to write a letter to
an elected official, and while they get to choose the official and
the topic, I will include this as a suggested topic this semester
(most of them have never contacted an elected official before).
Senators Voice Support for $7.5 Billion for NSF
A group of 21 Senators have signed a letter to the Appropriations
Committee in support of increasing funding for the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in fiscal year 2015. Senator Edward Markey (D-MA)
initiated the dear colleague letter. The proposed funding level of
$7.5 billion is the same as the level supported in a letter
circulated in the House that was signed by 133 Representatives. The
House and Senate Appropriations Committees have yet to announced a
2015 funding level for NSF. The House is scheduled to consider
legislation to fund NSF and the Departments of Commerce and Justice
in early May.
David Inouye
Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor
Associate Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies
Dept. of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224
[email protected]
301-405-6946
2013-14 President-elect, Ecological Society of America
