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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House Considers Flat Budget for NSF
Posted by Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor on July 13th, 2017
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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.
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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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Posted by Barbara Kennedy-Penn State on November 21st, 2016
Genomes from three species of Caribbean corals show how they survived past mass-extinction events caused […]
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