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Announced on Friday, the NSF clarified that its mission promotes “the progress of science, advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, and secure the national defense,” and will be ...
In a brief public statement, Sethuraman Panchanathan said he was stepping down effective Thursday and called it “an honor and privilege to serve as the Director of NSF.” He also informed employees at ...
Given that the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas runs the flagship supercomputer of the NSF, and that the future “Horizon” supercomputer will be the most powerful NSF machine ...
Another 700 National Science Foundation grants were slashed Friday, the day after the agency’s director quit and a week after the president’s Department of Government Efficiency cut 400 NSF grants for ...
All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative by ...
In a brief public statement, Sethuraman Panchanathan said he was stepping down effective Thursday and called it “an honor and privilege to serve as the Director of NSF.” He also informed employees at ...
“It has been a privilege to work with the amazing leadership team during my tenure at the NSF,” an internal email said. “Despite the many challenges over the past five years, including ...
An NSF spokesperson, Michelle M. Negrón, told C&EN over email that the agency dissolved these committees in response to a Feb. 19 executive order aiming to reduce the size of the federal government.
Competition is intense for NSF grants, a key source of funding for science research at U.S. universities. It took three failed applications and years of preliminary research before the agency ...
had been awarded by the NSF’s directorate of education. The numbers match crowdsourced data compiled in an online database by Scott Delaney, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of ...