A new USA Today article exploring the impacts of sequestration suggests federal budget cuts designed to save $85 billion in the short term might end up costing the government more money in the future through lower tax revenue, increased unemployment, contract terminations, and deferred maintenance on warships and airplanes.

UMBC political science professor Roy T. Meyers, a former Congressional budget analyst, adds, “It makes it less likely that some contractors will want to supply services into the federal government, and in the future they’re going to charge a risk premium.”

Meyers further argues, “We’ve been paying this cost of sequester for a while already, just through wasted administrative time preparing for conditional cuts that generate absolutely no value for the American public.” Read the full article online at USA Today.

Caitlyn Leiter-Mason and Dr. Phyllis Robinson are representing UMBC on this awesome page highlighting women from USM for Women's History Month! Check it out!

This message came to us from UMBC Chemistry alumna, Dr. LaTese Briggs. Dr. Briggs completed a postdoc at The Broad, a collaborative between Harvard and MIT. She is now a Program Analyst for Faster Cures, a division of the Milken Institute. 

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The NIH has issued a Request for Information about implementing the recommendations of its Working Group on the Biomedical Research Workforce.The comment deadline is April 22. Responses are being sought from all stakeholders in the extramural community, including students, postdoctorates, scientists, scientific societies, and NIH grantee institutions, as well as from the general public. 

Here is the Link:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-045.html