{"id":26417,"date":"2025-04-22T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26417"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:24:43","slug":"national-science-foundation-terminates-hundreds-of-active-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26417","title":{"rendered":"National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.<\/p>\n

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Casey Fiesler, an information science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, learned late on Friday evening that one of the three grants she had been awarded by the National Science Foundation was being terminated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a total surprise,\u201d Dr. Fiesler said. \u201cThis is the one that I thought was totally safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grant<\/a> supported Dr. Fiesler\u2019s research on building A.I. literacy. She received no official explanation for why the grant was being terminated more than a year ahead of its scheduled end. But Dr. Fiesler speculated that it had something to do with the word \u201cmisinformation\u201d in the award\u2019s abstract.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fiesler was not alone. As of Monday, the National Science Foundation had canceled more than 400 active awards, according to a list obtained by The New York Times. The decision comes after months of scrutiny of the agency, including a report<\/a> released by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, last October and, in February, an internal review of awards<\/a> containing words related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I.<\/p>\n

In January, the Trump administration attempted to freeze grant payments for existing awards at the N.S.F.. A temporary restraining order lifted the freeze<\/a>. The order also said that the agency could not terminate active awards to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive orders, one of which<\/a> called for an end to \u201cillegal and immoral discrimination programs\u201d under the premise of D.E.I. across the federal government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement<\/a> on Friday, the N.S.F. said that its grant cancellations were not in violation of the temporary restraining order. When asked by The Times to provide clarification on the legality of the grant cancellations, the agency declined to comment.<\/p>\n

The National Science Foundation, established in 1950, finances much of the scientific research that takes place in the United States, ranging from astronomy and quantum computing to microbiology and education in science technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.<\/p>\n

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The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.Casey Fiesler, an information science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, learned late on Friday evening that one of the three grants she had been awarded by the National Science Foundation was being terminated.\u201cIt was a total surprise,\u201d Dr. Fiesler said. \u201cThis is the one that I thought was totally safe.\u201dThe grant supported Dr. Fiesler\u2019s research on building A.I. literacy. She received no official explanation for why the grant was being terminated more than a year ahead of its scheduled end. But Dr. Fiesler speculated that it had something to do with the word \u201cmisinformation\u201d in the award\u2019s abstract.Dr. Fiesler was not alone. As of Monday, the National Science Foundation had canceled more than 400 active awards, according to a list obtained by The New York Times. The decision comes after months of scrutiny of the agency, including a report released by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, last October and, in February, an internal review of awards containing words related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I.In January, the Trump administration attempted to freeze grant payments for existing awards at the N.S.F.. A temporary restraining order lifted the freeze. The order also said that the agency could not terminate active awards to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive orders, one of which called for an end to \u201cillegal and immoral discrimination programs\u201d under the premise of D.E.I. across the federal government.In a statement on Friday, the N.S.F. said that its grant cancellations were not in violation of the temporary restraining order. When asked by The Times to provide clarification on the legality of the grant cancellations, the agency declined to comment.The National Science Foundation, established in 1950, finances much of the scientific research that takes place in the United States, ranging from astronomy and quantum computing to microbiology and education in science technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26419,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26420,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions\/26420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}