In July, a letter from representatives of fund-raising affinity groups went out to every member of the library and staff, attacking Baker for using Holocaust references in his speech.
In a letter Monday to George J. Mitchell, who became Disney's chairman after Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive, was stripped of the title this month, representatives of funds from California, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and Ohio said they wanted to discuss the company's governance and its long-term performance.
CAMBRIDGE--Late last month, concerned academic researchers met with representatives of funding bodies and university staff development offices to discuss the situation of university contract research staff (CRS).
Normally, board members who are representatives of funds that invest in the company do not get compensated to serve on the board.
Van Kooyk was one of a number of speakers who addressed an intimate, mostly female group comprised of scientists, representatives of funding bodies, university administrators, and policymakers in Utrecht on 18 September.
Representatives of funding agencies from Europe, North America, and Japan recommended that the current challenges in the natural sciences require a new approach to the training of scientists and a new view of what constitutes successful career outcomes.
During 2014, Science worked with members of the research community, other publishers, and representatives of funding agencies on many initiatives to increase transparency and promote reproducibility in the published research literature.
NSF's Postdoctoral Appointments summarizes a 3-day November meeting at which postdocs, faculty members, university administrators, and representatives of funding agencies and professional societies explored how NSF -- and, by implication, other funders -- could improve the postdoc experience and better prepare young scientists for their subsequent careers.
"Everywhere I go, I meet people--including hospital and university administrators, academic researchers, and representatives of funding agencies, regulatory bodies, and our industry partners--who tell me that they wish they could hire me, or someone like me with a science/MBA background, to manage projects or handle communications or organize their partners," she says.
For this study, we conducted qualitative interviews with fieldworkers, researchers, ethics committee members and representatives of funding bodies in Kenya, The Gambia and the United Kingdom.
Of 24 people approached, 20 were interviewed: 7 principal investigators, 6 trial managers, 4 representatives of funding bodies and 4 ethics committee representatives (3 committee chairs and 1 regional committee officer).
