Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.
Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.
The agency told a Congressional committee that it would not forward peer-reviewer comments of social science grants the committee had requested.
Members of Congress have suggested that the President should be able to pick a US Science Laureate.
The agency released details of the sequester’s effects.
In a recent speech, the President defended spending on science and the peer-review process.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is writing legislation to change the rules of the NSF’s grant review process.
Republican representatives question how the NSF reviews grants.
Researchers welcome a new ruling saying that financial holdings will no longer need to be published in an online database.
Republicans seek to evaluate the agency’s spending on communications.
Academic research universities and cancer centers will have a large hunk of their funding cut because of the government sequester.