NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program.
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In the last episode of VarietyOn the “Strictly Business” podcast, Colleen Bell, head of the California State Film Commission, discusses her triumphs in her role as the Golden State’s film chief and the hurdles that remain in restoring a high volume of film and television lensing activity to Hollywood’s backyard. Bell says the last few
The U.S. National Science Foundation, one of the world’s largest funders of fundamental science, is expected to sharply reduce spending across most of its directorates.Credit: IB/Alamy Photography The US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to expropriate money from its core science programs to fund an initiative by the White House Office of Science and Technology