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Thanks to administrative shuffling, professor Carl-Wilhelm Vogel remains employed at the University of Hawai‘i despite the removal of his position in the new state budget, but the university’s faculty union says lawmakers might have crossed a legal line.

Carl-Wilhelm Vogel could lose his position at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center if the currently proposed state budget is signed by Governor David Ige.

These new initiatives would tackle problems relating to health and climate.

The program, known as ARIA, will be independent and scientist-led.

The measures are an attempt to mitigate an “extreme financial crisis” during the COVID-19 pandemic, the university says.

The 2020 budget includes a 15 percent increase in public funding for research and development next year, but some scientists want more details on where the money will go.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

A lack of funding for the country’s main research agency threatens the future of Brazilian scientific research.

Scientists won’t need Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s approval to attend meetings internationally, but researchers continue to struggle amidst budget cuts.

Scientists have attacked the government’s spending policies after it locked down nearly half of the money that had been allocated for science funding.

The bill for fiscal year 2019 increases allocations for NSF, FDA, and others above 2018 levels.

As the second full week of lapsed funding comes to a close, some 800,000 federal employees are stuck at home, including some biologists.

The ongoing stalemate over the federal budget has forced one-quarter of the US government to begin a second week of closure.

Money from the NIH’s budget, among others, will be used to care for kids in federal custody.

The plan would also allow non-EU countries to pay to participate in EU research programs, albeit without wielding “decisional power.”

The agency is also poised to end a 50-year effort to restore endangered whooping crane populations.

Funds for the NIH and NSF would stay flat, while some agencies, including the FDA and NASA, would see increases.