ISAIAH HANKEL: NIH And NSF Cuts Strike Major Blow To Academic Elites
The bureaucratic bloat in federal research funding is finally facing a long-overdue reckoning, especially for indirect academic research funds. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is preparing for a massive…
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About National Science Foundation
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about $8.75 billion, the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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- United States
- Inception
- May 10, 1950
- Website
- http://www.nsf.gov/, https://nsf.gov