Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released details of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Budget Request to Congress, which includes a proposed level of funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Detailed information will be a…
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National Science Foundation presents the Presidents FY 2020 budget request
Posted by NSF News on March 18th, 2019
House Considers Flat Budget for NSF
Posted by Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor on July 13th, 2017
Advocates want $8 billion for NSF, and President Trump wants less than $7 billion. House appropriators seem to be navigating a path through the middle.
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No Comments »Recovering lost Caribbean bats would take 8M years
Posted by Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook on March 28th, 2017
In the Caribbean alone, more than half of mammal species went extinct after human colonization. New research on bats shows how long recovery would take.
Posted in Science General Tags: antilles, balance, bats would take, brook university, Caribbean, caribbean bats would, caused, changes, Colonization, dávalos, Diversity, Ecology, Equilibrium, Evolution, extinct, Extinction, Extinctions, foundation, greater, Greater Antilles, humans, islands, lost caribbean bats, Mammal, millions, National, National Science, natural, Nature, processes, recent, recovering, recovering lost caribbean, regain, research, researchers, restore, Science, species, Stony Brook, Stony Brook University, the greater antilles, the national science, these extinctions, university No Comments »NSF celebrates the life of former director Erich Bloch
Posted by NSF News on November 28th, 2016
The National Science Foundation (NSF) mourns the passing of Erich Bloch, who served as the agency’s eighth director. Bloch died at his home on Friday, Nov. 26, at age 91.
Bloch served a full six-year term as director, from 1984 to 1990. He was a stro…
Government Research Funding Falls for Fourth Year in US
Posted by National Science Foundation on November 22nd, 2016
For the fourth straight year, federal funding for research and development at institutions of higher education decreased in absolute terms, according to a new brief on the 2015 fiscal year the National Science Foundation released last week. Despite that overall fall, research and development funding for psychology and for fields identified as social science increased from 2014 to 2015.
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