cover image: December 14, 2021 Volume 40 Issue 24 FEATURED NEWS Larry Tabak Named Acting Director for NIH, Questions Remain Regarding

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December 14, 2021 Volume 40 Issue 24 FEATURED NEWS Larry Tabak Named Acting Director for NIH, Questions Remain Regarding

14 Dec 2021

Silver, who has been with COSSA for eight of its ten years, led off the celebration with a brief review of the organization’s history from the battles in the early days, such as the victory on the Winn Amendment, to the current effort to create a separate directorate for the social, economic and psychological sciences at NSF. [...] Ward, President of the American Council on Education, kicked off the all-day meeting by referring to the contents of Fostering Human Progress: Social and Behavioral Science Research Contributions to Public Policy, produced by COSSA for the occasion. [...] Silver in which he explained the organization’s origins as an advocacy group – the need to fight severe cuts proposed by the Reagan Administration in 1981 to the social and behavioral science budgets at the National Science Foundation and elsewhere in the federal government. [...] Tom Mann of the Brookings Institution, who served as the first chair of COSSA’s Executive Committee, gave the keynote address examining the political landscape of the last thirty years. [...] COSSA Member Spotlight PAA Holds Congressional Briefing on the Demographic Implications of Climate Change On December 6, the Population Association of America (PAA), a Governing Member of COSSA, organized a virtual Congressional briefing titled “Braving the Storm: How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live.” The briefing, which was moderated by Chair of the PAA Government and Public Affa.
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