National Science Foundation Caves To Trump Admin

April 19, 2025 Science, Trump Administration

Science.org reports:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Not anymore.

Today NSF announced such efforts “are no longer aligned with its priorities” and that it is terminating any existing grant designed to improve the demographics of the scientific workforce. Grants related to “misinformation/disinformation” are also being axed.

NSF declined to answer a query from Science about how many awards are being killed and their monetary value. But one source told Science the agency’s $1.1 billion education directorate may have canceled as many as 200 grants just today. The $9 billion agency currently funds more than 30,000 research projects.

The NSF has issued a statement:

NSF’s broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere.

These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities.

NSF will continue to support research with the goal of understanding or addressing participation in STEM, in accordance with all applicable statutes and mandates, with the core goal of creating opportunities for all Americans.

There’s more to the statement at the link.



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