National Postdoctoral Association

NPA Policy Resources and News

• NPA Position Statements
• A guide for institutional leaders, postdoctoral scholars and others interested in postdoctoral training issues. To download a PDF of this document, please click here. (02-23-2005)
• NPA response to the National Academies of Science report entitled Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research.
• NPA Policy resources
• More Policy resources (extrinsic to NPA)

Policy News

Postdoctoral Enterprise and Careers

• NIH initiates Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) for Young Investigators (02-15-2006)
• NIH establishes NRSA Funding Levels for FY2006 (02-15-2006)
• House Science Committee Chairman seeks answers from NASA (02-15-2006)

National Policy

• Fiscal Year 2006 appropriations process closes (02-15-2006)
• The President’s 2006 State of the Union Address includes request for greater federal investment in innovation research (02-15-2006)
• New Senate legislation to support innovation research parallels the President’s State of the Union Address (02-15-2006)

International Issues

• Some visa restrictions are dropped (02-15-2006)

Policy Committee Activities

• NPA responds to requests from both the OSTP and the NSF(02-15-2006)

Archive

• NPA Policy News Archive

Policy Library

• Postdoctoral Scholars Factsheet
• Postdoc Policy 101: A Policy Primer for Advocates PDF
• The Postdoc Debate
• Policy Resources and Links
• Institutional Policy Database
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