"I have no idea what the Senate is doing," says Sabrina Corlette, a former House staffer who directs research projects at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
Du Mée's first directed research project was a thirty-page evaluation of a bill giving tax credits for donations to fund private-school scholarships, which Franks had introduced.
All seniors do a directed research project that is designed, Farris told me, to mimic the work that an entry-level staffer would be assigned.
Small-scale or local-level analysis is typically only conducted if geographic data are collected (e.g. via GPS units) as part of a directed research project.
Each semester one will lead a weekly seminar and direct research projects based on the Whitney's collection and exhibitions.
In so doing, we outline specific challenges for knowledge producers who set research priorities, and design and direct research projects.
Her father, John Sloatman, was a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and went on to direct research projects for the U.S. military.
Instead of hiring a large, permanent staff, DARPA awards short contracts (typically three to five years) to eminent scientists to direct research as project managers.
Newman is currently directing three research projects directly related to the peace process, two of which are funded through the EU.
In this book, written with the collaboration of Dr. Robert Kolodny, who directed research for the project, they declared that the "AIDS virus is now running rampant in the heterosexual community" and would begin to attack the general population "at a frightening pace".
