As a veteran academic researcher, department chairperson and associate dean for research, I have seen this process play out from multiple perspectives – as a grant recipient, grant reviewer and ...

This is a rather cheeky point being made by Matt Ridley, that government funding of science and research doesn't in fact find very much. And given that it doesn't in fact find very much it also ...

David Ramotowski presents his research during the 2023 Three-Minute Thesis competition. Ramotowski won first place. Courtesy ...

Legislation approved on Thursday by the Senate Committee on Appropriations would preserve nearly all of the NSF’s funding.

Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of ...

Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and ...

Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily ...

Science. Federal Science Funding Won't Accomplish Anything the Private Sector Can't Do Better A bipartisan bill aimed to help the U.S. “compete” with China would only slow down scientific ...

While government science funding in the U.S. is stagnant, America’s main scientific rivals are rising fast. Federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 1.2% in 1987 to 1% in 2010 ...

Federal funding made my path in science possible. Funding cuts and grant terminations are an attack on science. We need to protect these science funding institutions for the health of our communities.

To get funding today, scientists must show that their research will advance the goals of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). These terms connote lofty goals, but a close look at what is ...

Digital health startups in the city saw an uptick in funding in the first half of the year as late-stage life science and ...