CAPITOL HILL HIGHLIGHTS

AGENCY ACTIVITIES

IMPORTANT COMMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• NIMH Request For Information on Strategic Plan for Research – January 1
• NEI Request For Information on Sttrategic Plan "2020 Vision for the Future" - January 8
• NIH Request For Comment on Draft Policy for Data Management and Sharing - January 10
• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Request For Information on Research Environments - Extended to January 28

FABBS Annual Meeting Features Speakers from NIH, NSF, and OSTP

FABBS held its Annual Council of Representatives meeting on December 9th, 2019. This meeting is an opportunity for representatives from our member societies and our Board members to be updated on FABBS Advocacy efforts, discuss a range of topic affecting FABBS fields of sciences, and hear from and engage with colleagues from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Read more  »

Lila R. Gleitman, PhD

Lila R. Gleitman is a Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a B.A. in Literature from Antioch College in 1952. As a student of Zelig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania, she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics. She was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1972, where she served as the dissertation advisor of numerous luminaries in the psychology of language. Professor Gleitman’s research in language acquisition has been recognized by many organizations, and she is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of the David Rumelhart Prize, and she has served as President of the Linguistic Society of America. Read more  »

FABBS would like to thank Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University, for her tremendous service to FABBS. Dr. Newcombe will be ending her two-year term as FABBS President at the end of the year. We asked her for some parting words of wisdom. Read more  »

Breaking News

• Statements on Sethuraman Panchanathan's nomination as NSF director - NSF Press Release

Apply and Submit

• Golden Goose Award Nominations (Dec 20)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Program Director, NSF (Jan 3)
• SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Programs (Jan 3)
• 2020 BRAIN Initiative® Investigators Meeting Symposium Submissions (Jan 3)
• Policy Fellowships - American Psychological Association (Jan 5)
• The James Marshall Public Policy Fellowship - SPSSI (Feb 1)
• Butler-Williams Scholars Program 2020 (Feb 14)

Attend

• The NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Diagnosing Resilience: A Multisystemic Model for Positive Development in Stressed Environments (Jan 7, Bethesda, MD or Webinar)
• NSF - The State of the U.S. Science and Engineering (January 15)
• NSF Merit Review System and Grant Writing (March 11, Portland, OR)
• 6th Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting (June 1-3, Arlington, VA)

Funding

• NIH 
  • Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements to NIH-funded T32 and TL1 Training Grants to Better Integrate Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) with other Health-Related Sciences (NOT-OD-19-147) (Jan 25)
  • Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B/Start) (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
  • Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
  • Computational Approaches for Validating Dimensional Constructs of Relevance to Psychopathology (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
  • Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
  • Research on Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
  • Improving Patient Adherence to Treatment and Prevention Regimens to Promote Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
• NSF
  • Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics (Dec 20)
  • New and Reissued Funding Opportunity Announcements for Fiscal Year 2020: Data Science, Training, Neuroethics, and Small Business (Earliest Jan 5)
  • Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms (Jan 17)
  • New and Reissued Funding Opportunity Announcements for Fiscal Year 2020: Data Science, Training, Neuroethics, and Small Business (Earliest July 1)
  • NSF INCLUDES Planning Grants (July 13)

Read

• Dear Colleague Letter: SBE Perspectives on Graduate Education - Arthur Lupia and Karen Marongelle, NSF
• Update on Topic Areas and Other Thoughts About Upcoming RFAs - Mark Schneider, IES
• Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 2 

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• Psychology in the Real World FABBS video series
• Who Cares What Science Says? - Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda and Chris Volpe
• Game-changing Technologies Brought to You by NSF
• SAGE Social Science Terminology Thesaurus 
• FABBS Diversity Resources Database

• Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (April 1-4, La Jolla, CA) 
• American Educational Research Association (April 17-21, San Francisco, CA)
• Vision Sciences Society (May 15-20, St. Pete Beach, FL)

FABBS News Highlights is a semi-monthly electronic newsletter published by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences with the goals of keeping scientists updated on federal budget and policy issues affecting the sciences of mind, brain and behavior; recognizing the research contributions of leading scientists; and sharing research findings to inform policies and programs.

Editor: Juliane Baron

Contributors: Juliane Baron, Diana Liao

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