The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Research Operations

Huron summary documents on the ARRA are under the Resource section in the lower right hand corner of this page.

With the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009 Huron Consulting Group is dedicated to providing the latest news on how this will affect the Health and Education industry.  Here you will find a collection of the most pertinent information from the Act as it relates to research operations.

• www.recovery.gov – Explanation of the American Recovery Act
  
  
• http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1enr.pdf – full version of the bill. 
  
  
• http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/PressSummary02-12-09.pdf – contains breakdown of the $311 billion investment to science

• The Office of Management and Budget
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• The National Science Foundation
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Energy
• U.S. Department of Interior
• U.S. Department of Labor
• National Aeronautics and Space Agency
• National Endowments for the Arts
• National Institute of Standard and Technology
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Articles and Other News:
The New York Times

• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/science/24stim.html – Article published February 23, 2009 titled “Beaker-Ready Projects? Colleges Have Quite a Few”