Typically, their role is to evaluate and set scientific priorities and coordinate the administrative structure that supports scientists.

He was the one who persuaded the astronomical community that infrared-optimized telescopes should be a scientific priority.

A: Fermilab has commissioned a task force to determine what work the laboratory can continue to support based on scientific priorities and potential budget scenarios.

Just as science affects society, so scientific priorities and ideas are shaped by social and economic forces.

On the question of scientific priority ... it wasn't really the point.

As a nation we must take a new look at our scientific priorities and ask ourselves what we really want.

The question of scientific priorities is part of a larger discussion about national priorities - what we want for ourselves as a nation.

However, this is no question of scientific priority: to myself it seems that Tennyson "beat his music out" for himself, as perhaps most people do.

I am also especially supportive of references in this common position compromise which identify marine sciences and technologies as a cross-cutting scientific priority.

More than any other person's policies, the President's policies set the country's scientific priorities and channel billions of dollars into research and development.