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Using Market-Based Tools to Achieve Meaningful Carbon Emissions Reductions in the United States
(2017-05)
Carbon emissions are directly and unequivocally linked to anthropogenic climate change. Reducing carbon emissions will mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change, which include immediate and sustained harm to ...
Academic-Corporate Relations at a Research University: Options for Engagement Practices and Organization
(2017)
Universities engage with corporations to pursue their missions in research, teaching, and public service. In recent years, corporations have evolved their expectations for university relations from primarily philanthropic ...
Clinical Trials-Related Administrative Workload and the Methods Used to Assess It
(2016-08-24)
The 2012 Faculty Research Survey Research Report conducted by the Federal Demonstration Partnership (Survey) found that clinical trials were one of the 22 most common administrative workload burden activity areas. This ...
Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
(2016-04-13)
The earth continues to get hotter as a result of anthropogenic climate change and adverse effects will increase in frequency and severity for populations and economies across the United States. There is clear scientific ...
Contingent Convertible Capital: A New Capital Requirement to Solve 'Too Big to Fail'
(2016-04-29)
The adoption of Basel III capital requirements has been championed as one of the primary means for addressing the ‘Too Big to Fail’ conundrum. However, many have argued that higher standards do not effectively solve the ...
Global Wind Energy Expansion: Gauging Vulnerabilities to Climate Change
(2016-08-24)
Global demand for low emission renewable energy production continues to intensify.
Wind turbine power plants, which harness the kinetic energy from wind to generate electricity,
continue to proliferate due to the ...
Affordable, High-Quality Child Care for All
(2016-04-29)
The first years of a child’s life are a vital period of rapid cognitive, social and emotional development. For working families, high quality early child care is a necessity that provides young children with support that ...
Policy Recommendations to Protect and Grow the Community Banking Sector
(2016-04-20)
The banking industry has contracted from over 18,000 institutions in the 1980s to just over six thousand banks today. Since 98 percent of banks have fewer than $10 billion in assets the overwhelming majority of industry ...
Application of the National Academies’ Recommendations in the Publication “Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation’s Prosperity and Security” to a Division within a Research University
(2017)
In the fall of 2015, the Division of Nuclear Medicine (“Division”), a twelve million dollar research division at an institution of higher education (IHE) (“Institution”), was in administrative shambles, and lacked many ...
Pre-Award Research Administration Infrastructure: Current Practices and Future Directions
(2017-08)
Competition for federal research funding is increasing as federal funds allotted for research lag behind the growing demand. Reducing administrative burdens on research faculty would allow more time for faculty to conduct ...