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Resource Book Now Available
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APS Science Policy Update
January 10, 2008
In this issue:
- Op-Ed in the Scientist by FASEB President Robert Palazzo
- Evolution article appears in FASEB Journal
- Science Magazine Reviews the Numbers
US Competitiveness in The Scientist
Robert Palazzo, President of FASEB, writes an Op-Ed on funding for biomedical research and US competitiveness in the most recent issue of the Scientist. http://www.thescientist.com/2008/01/1/25/1/
A Role for Scientists in Evolution Education
Recognizing that challenges to the teaching of evolution also represent a threat to science and science education, 17 scientific societies including the APS came together in an unprecedented effort to understand how the scientific community might best address this threat. The Coalition of Scientific Societies engaged a professional research firm to conduct a national survey examining voters’ attitudes on evolutionary science in the context of education. The data and results of the study have been published in several society journals and are available online at http://evolution.faseb.org/sciencecoalition.
Release of the article coincided with the National Academy of Sciences’ release of an updated version of their publication Science, Evolution and Creationism.
The 2008 Budget Year in Review
Science magazine published a rundown of the research budget numbers for FY 2008. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5859/18
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