A Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results Research Program (2017) / Chapter Skim
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. Environmental research has identified susceptible groups within populations by distinguishing vulnerable life stages and genetic factors (Landrigan et al.
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STAR is a competitive peer-reviewed research grants program that supports environmental research in academic and other nonprofit organizations. Until 2016, STAR provided graduate fellowships for master's and PhD students and funding for research pertaining to human health and the environment.
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. FUNDING OF THE SCIENCE TO ACHIEVE RESULTS PROGRAM Funding for the STAR program has fluctuated, with a peak of around $138 million (2016 dollars)
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No STA center gran were award in 2015. AR nts ded Fellowships F STAR graduate fellowships aimed to enc S courage promi ising students to pursue advanced degr rees and career in environm rs ment-related fie (NRC 2003)
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n FIGUR 1-3 Types and numbers of ST RE TAR RFAs vary Total award am y. mounts shown here are asso ociated with the year of RFA release.
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. The STAR fellowships had been the only federal fellowships designed exclusively for students pursuing advanced degrees in environmental sciences and had aimed to build cohorts of environmental scientists who had the multidisciplinary backgrounds needed for addressing complex environmental-science problems.
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The 2003 comm blic T mittee strongly endorsed the SSTAR program asm an inte egral part of EP PA's research program that provided the a agency access to externa and indepen al ndent informa ation, analyses and perspe s, ectives. Box 1 1-1 summa arizes the commmittee's key fin ndings.
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Enabled continuing training and supply of graduate students in envi ronmental sciences through its fellowship program. The committee recommended that EPA Institute a structured system of program-level reviews in the National Center for Environmental Research as its primary mechanism for evaluating the STAR program.
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Its statement of task is provided in Box 1-2. THE COMMITTEE'S APPROACH Although the statement of task refers to the STAR competitive extramural grants program, the committee interpreted that to include the fellowship program because the fellowship program had been a long-standing integrated component of STAR.
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. In the case of STAR, the goals include only indirect benefits to EPA in that through the Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 grants cannot directly benefit federal agencies (Engel-Cox et al.
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2016. EPA Offices Are Aware of the Agency's Science to Achieve Results Program, but Challenges Remain in Measuring and Internally Communicating Research Results That Advance the Agency's Mission.
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Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grants Program.
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