3.0.0 3564 2023-01-11T13:21:44Z 2023-01-11T13:21:44Z Senate S S 2010-07-12 111 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-07-12T20:11:17Z 2010-07-12 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2010-07-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM N Science, Technology, Communications Government information and archives Higher education Research administration and funding Research and development Science and engineering education Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination Women's education Women's employment Science, Technology, Communications 00 2010-07-12 Introduced in Senate 2010-08-11T19:10:02Z Defines a "federal STEM agency" as any federal agency responsible for not less than 2% of total federal research and development funding in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to institutions of higher education, according to National Science Foundation (NSF) data.

Requires the Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop a policy for federal STEM agencies to carry out a program of workshops that educate program officers, members of grant review panels, and institution of higher education (IHE) STEM department chairs on how to implement methods that minimize the influence of gender bias in the evaluation of federal research grants and in the related academic advancement of the recipients of these grants.

Authorizes federal STEM agencies to make grants to eligible organizations to carry out workshops.

Requires the Secretary of Commerce to support at least one workshop every two years among the federal STEM agencies.

Requires the Director to transmit a report to Congress determining such program's effectiveness.

Requires the Secretary to develop a policy to extend research grant support for federally funded researchers who are caregivers.

Requires federal STEM agencies to collect specified standardized annual demographic data for all applications and proposals for STEM research and development grants to IHEs. Provides for the publication of such data.

Requires NSF to report statistical summary data on the demographics of STEM faculty at IHEs in the United States and report to Congress on how NSF will gather such data.

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