Academic Funding

NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items
Academic Funding
May 7, 2014

NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items

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Largest-Ever NSF Budget Passes First Test
Academic Funding
April 30, 2014

Largest-Ever NSF Budget Passes First Test

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Who Really Holds the Cards in Gambling Research?
Academic Funding
April 30, 2014

Who Really Holds the Cards in Gambling Research?

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The Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own to Keep His Gun Research Going
Public Policy
April 30, 2014

The Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own to Keep His Gun Research Going

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National Science Board Critical of FIRST Elements

National Science Board Critical of FIRST Elements

National Science Board steps beyond its usual comfort zone to lodge a criticism of NSF re-authorization bill that would establish role for Congress in picking research funding winners and losers.

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Academic Excellence and Other Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Academic Excellence and Other Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

‘It’s not what you know but who you know’ is a trope that’s common in many careers but which the academy often claims to avoid. Except that in many cases it doesn’t.

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Penny Wise: Why Would Anyone Gut Australia’s Science Agency?

Penny Wise: Why Would Anyone Gut Australia’s Science Agency?

Proposals circulating to cut as much as a fifth of the budget from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation are a quick way to inflict long-term pain in Australia’s research community.

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NSF Boss Finds Friendly Reception in Appropriations Panel

NSF Boss Finds Friendly Reception in Appropriations Panel

Concerns about Chinese advances and US education declines, not internecine disputes between academic disciplines, marked the Hill debut of the agency-requested budget for the National Science Foundation.

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NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

The Executive Branch’s proposed budget for NSF in the coming fiscal year will be presented to the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. A competing spending plan that would be markedly less friendly to social, behavioral and economic science is already circulating.

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Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

How concerned should the social science community be about the still substantial chunk of money missing from federal social science support in a hotly contested National Science Foundation reauthorization bill? According to Daniel Lipinski, the very conservative Democratic congressman whose amendment backfilled $50 million that even more conservative Republicans wanted to take away, a lot and a little.

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UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle

UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle

A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.

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UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST

UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST

Thursday’s mark-up of a bill that nearly cuts the National Science Foundation’s social science spending in half is stirring up the academic community.

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