Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board at the end of April. In this bite we explore what this means for the NSF, science funding, and, more broadly, the American government, with a perspective from Dr. Keivan Stassun, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt and a recent NSB member.
The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science.
In today’s bite, I share what I learned about science funding in the United States’ history and future in a science policy course I took last spring.
In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.
Today we interview Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen recently retired as Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Astrobites had the opportunity to interview Dr. Zurbuchen about his tenure at SMD and the current and future state of NASA Science.