The NSF declined to provide comment for this story. The REU program was founded in 1987 as a way to expand access to high-level research opportunities for students at small institutions and community ...

The National Science Foundation funds a number of REU programs across different disciplines at 1,300 institutions across the country. Each program is funded in a 3-year cycle. Other REU ...

However, this year, there has been a surge in REU cancellations, many of which have been caused by funding issues from the National Science Foundation, among other reasons. Jackson Headon, a junior ...

The National Science Foundation is moving to terminate some of the grant funding it allocated toward projects which are no longer aligned with the agency’s mission. Announced on Friday ...

The mass cancellation and realignment of NSF’s grant priorities coincided with the arrival of officials from the Department of Government Efficiency, who have been present at the agency since ...

Former National Science Foundation and National Science Board leads sent a letter to congressional leadership saying the cuts to the agency run contrary to the Trump administration’s priorities.

The US National Science Foundation announced last week that it has disbanded all 12 of its nonstatutory advisory committees, which had helped the agency determine what funding efforts to ...