Academy panel favors Gravity Probe-B

Article Abstract:

A National Academy of Sciences panel headed by Val Fitch recommended spending the $250 million needed to complete the $500 million Gravity Probe-B project. However, a minority on the panel expressed concern about the complexity of the experiment to test the general theory of relativity.

Research, Product/Service Evaluation, Reports, General relativity (Physics), Gravity Probe-B (Space vehicle)

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Panel considers radical funding cuts

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The Congressional Research Service convened a panel to consider four scenarios for how the federal government could fund civilian research and development that would be more conducive to balancing the federal budget by 2002. The panel rejected a proposal to eliminate government funding.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Finance, Industrial research, Science and technology policy, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, United States. Congressional Research Service

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Leadership crisis rocks academy

Article Abstract:

Harold Leibowitz refuses to resign as president of the National Academy of Engineering even though the National Academy of Sciences passed a resolution which expressed 'no confidence' in him and stripped him of all duties as the National Research Council's vice chair.

Officials and employees, Human resource management, National Research Council, National Academy of Engineering, Leibowitz, Harold

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