The follow-on workshop will include a broader array of participants—including academic and extramural researchers in addition to industry and government stakeholders to provide a forum for these research communities to exchange ideas, highlight new findings, and guide future investments in ENM exposure assessment research and development.
Overall, we must establish a new "big tent" culture that bridges the biology of basic aging research, human gerontology, geriatric medicine and population aging based on effective, properly coordinated mechanisms of communication, collaboration, experimental science, infrastructure, research and academic training, and extramural funding.
Mark Schaefer, Interior Department deputy assistant secretary for water and science, says "a very high priority" will be getting academic researchers involved through extramural grants and cooperative agreements, and by having agency scientists set up shop at universities to work "side by side" with academics.
Any such policy must recognize that social media can be used to make extramural utterances, which are protected under principles of academic freedom (p. 15).
Federal support for fundamental plant science research has been even less: The amount awarded on a competitive basis to academic and research institutions constitutes only about 2% of extramural spending for life sciences research ($382 million out of $17 billion in 2005).
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), through several extramural activities, promotes CBPR that encourages partnerships between community members and academic researchers in public health.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program provides promising junior faculty extramural funding, expert mentoring, and the training needed to be successful in the academic role.
This says a lot about his relation to academic authority: despite the nostalgia he claims to feel for the world of the early extramural/peripatetic scholar - repeated in the lectures that make up Lessons of the Masters - Steiner is obsessed by academic rank and status.
Among his extramural interests were ornithology and, following his father's example, the practice of calligraphy.
The band's many extramural flings might have had some bearing too.
