To the Daily Tar Heel, AWIS director of research and analysis Heather Metcalf, PhD, said the Association for Women in Science endorsed the Congressional bill introduced by U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space and Technology Ranking Member Ernie Bernice Johnson (TX-30).
“There are also efforts that are coming from, for example, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, that are more tightly coupling responsible conduct of research with these kinds of behaviors, and tying that to funding for individual investigators and for institutions where those investigators work,” Metcalf said.