AMS Programs
AMS Programs
AMS Names New Policy Program Director
Beginning this month, Paul Higgins has succeeded Bill Hooke as director of the AMS Policy Program. Hooke will move into...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
AAAS Finds Some Good News in R&D Budget
by George Leopold, AMS Policy Program Our friends at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have sifted...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Obama Backs Weather Funding in Opening Bid
by George Leopold, AMS Policy Program While it remains far from clear whether the Obama administration will gain final congressional...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
The Value of Knowing Our Value
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program Sometimes articulating the right question is the tipping point on the path to the...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Hanging Together: The AMS Washington Forum
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
For Science and Discovery, Videoconferencing Won't Get It
by J. Marshall Shepherd, AMS President. The full text was posted earlier today on his blog, Still Here and Thinking....
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New NSTA Executive Director Talks Climate Education
Last month, AMS member David L. Evans began as the new executive director of The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA),...
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A Simple Investment in the Sciences
It’s not every day you get a chance to invest in a sure-fire start-up based on science you know very...
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The Short and Long of Sequestration Forecasts
By now your head is probably spinning with all the conflicting forecasts what the Federal sequestration will do to us....
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Barack, Mitt . . . and Sandy
In the modern era of presidential campaigns, even with candidates’ every last word and action carefully scripted, there can still...
