National Academy of Sciences

The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, will use this grant to develop and implement a strategic communications plan to reach targeted audiences with the findings and recommendations of the Council's report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, which analyzes the dramatic increase in U.S. incarceration rates, its effects on people's lives, families, and communities, and its implications for public policy. With this communications plan, the Council seeks to increase awareness and understanding, and spur action to significantly reduce incarceration rates, mitigate their social and economic costs, and develop effective alternative community responses and resources.

The National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, conducts workshops, develops studies, evaluates programs, and provides research fellowships to inform policy and practice in education, science, technology, criminal justice, and other areas of social policy. This grant supports the Council to convene a study committee under the auspices of the Committee on Law and Justice to develop a report and recommendations that will equip the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention with a blueprint for implementing juvenile justice system reform using a developmental

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. With this grant, NAS will convene an expert committee to conduct a study of how sustainability principles now being applied in selected urban regions can inform economic growth and regeneration practices in other major metropolitan areas. The study is expected to generate new planning frameworks for integrating sustainability practices into local government decision making that can be adapted in other regions to inform local, state, and national strategies.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was incorporated in an 1863 Congressional charter and has since become the trusted source for unbiased, sound advice regarding the most pressing challenges faced by the nation, from conservation of natural resources to development of nutritional guidelines to the human genome project. As part of the Academy’s 150th Anniversary commemoration, this grant funds a book authored by three eminent historians about the development of science, medicine and technology in America and NAS’s role in that process, and recounts its public policy work in the context of the socio-political landscape of the nation, and the world, and related symposia.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, non-profit organization charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. This study, “Science and Technology Capabilities at the Department of State,” will recruit U.S. foreign policy and scientific experts from public and private sectors to reevaluate, in light of new global challenges and advances, how the Department of State uses science and technology to achieve foreign policy objectives. The project will include meetings, research, reviews and analyses, interviews and field visits. Funds will be used for a final report, meetings, travel and partial salaries.

This grant to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will convene an expert panel to produce a consensus study on the economic and fiscal consequences of immigration in the United States. This report, which will update the seminal 1997 NAS study, The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, will assess the consequences of immigration on labor, wages, economic growth and other factors, and provide timely data and analysis to policy makers, the media and the public.

The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine will convene a workshop with an interdisciplinary committee of economists, social scientists, researchers, and policy experts to highlight issues on reaching consensus on the standards for benefit-cost analysis for preventive interventions for children, youth, and families. Although benefit-cost analysis holds much promise for influencing policy, there is an absence of broad-based agreement and consistent application of theoretical, technical, and reporting standards that diminishes its use by policymakers. Workshop findings could inform the development of standards to guide future benefit-cost studies, ensure greater consistency and comparability across studies, and enhance benefit-cost analysis’ value among government and other decision-makers.

In support of a workshop on Key Education Indicators.

To study 21st Century Skills and conduct a workshop to examine existing and new methods of teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (over 18 months).

To examine and strengthen the health and competitiveness of U.S. research universities (over two years).

To establish and jointly staff an expert committee on the Fiscal Future and American Society (over two years).

To bring scientific and technical expertise to policymakers at the U.S. Department of State through the Jefferson Science Fellows Program (over two years).

In support of a research project on the international experience of world leaders.

In support of research and travel costs associated with the Panel on the Transition to Adulthood in Developing Countries.

In support of a pilot initiative to establish the Jefferson Senior Science Fellows Program at the U.S. Department of State (over three years).

To promote open access to scientific and technical data and information

To support a symposium on the role of the public domain in scientific and technical information.

To accelerate efforts to reduce the danger of nuclear weapon use by terrorist organizations.

To support a study on technical concerns related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

To support a study on juvenile crime prevention, control, and treatment (over two years).

To support the Second National Forum on Biodiversity.

To support the Second National Forum on Biodiversity.

To support research on land-use change in India and China (over two years).

To support inter-disciplinary research on population and land use in India, China, and the United States.

To support the Committee to Develop a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students.

To support a meeting to plan six case studies on population and land use in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.

To support the policy project Technological Aspects of Industrial Modernization in Mexico.

To publish volumes II, III, and IV of the report "Understanding and Preventing Violence."

For use by the Soviet/East European Program of the National Research Council to support a series of exchange programs with the Soviet and Eastern European Academies of Sciences (over three years).

For use by the National Research Council to support the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change.

To send 14 scholars to the International Congress on the History of Science.

To support the Committee on International Security and Arms Control for collaborative efforts on scientific and technical issues germane to international security and arms control, with colleagues in the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the French Academy of Sciences (over three years).

In support of general operations and the Committee on Human Rights.

To support a survey and work plan on drought, desertification, and food deficit in Africa, a joint project with the African Academy of Sciences.

To support the project Contributions of Behavioral and Social Science to the Prevention of Nuclear War, under the direction of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

To support self-initiated policy-oriented studies (over five years).

To support research, disseminate knowledge, and stimulate networking on the contributions of behavioral and social science to the prevention of nuclear war.

In support of general operations (over two years).

To support a review of the Institute of Medicine—its structure and relationship to the academy and the impact of its policy studies.

To establish the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fund for International Scientific Communication, devoted to nongovernmental programs among the scientific communities of the United States, the People's Republic of China, and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (over 10 years).

To study the implications of governmental policies related to mental health.

To support self-initiated policy-oriented studies (over five years).

To support national conferences for policymakers on issues of child development research and public policy.