NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

National Science Foundation gives $2 million to Pratt Institute to promote 'climate literacy' and 'climate justice'

A federal government agency has awarded several millions of dollars to a private university in Brooklyn in order to…

By Campus Reform
Oct 22, 2024

One-quarter of NSF grants fund DEI, new report claims

The report was released in early October.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Oct 21, 2024

Pennsylvania university supports race-based STEM fellowship

An SRU professor said that the 'key goal of LSAMP is to increase America’s STEM workforce by increasing STEM partic…

By Mary Stevens '25
Sep 19, 2024

NSF grants LSU $4.5 million for ‘equity center’ to study alleged bias against minority faculty members

The money from the NSF grant could have paid tuition and other costs for more than 100 students.

By Michael Duke '26
Aug 28, 2024

National Science Foundation grants $50,000 to Boise State researchers to study ‘white supremacist extremism’

The grant has been awarded to two Boise State researchers whose work focuses on racial issues.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Apr 15, 2024

National Science Foundation funds DEI-based 'Math for All' conference

Seven different American colleges and universities served as in-person venues for this year’s DEI-based 'Math for A…

By Benjamin Brown '26
Apr 15, 2024

Federal government spent $1 million to butcher basic biology in three states

Three universities received a sum total of almost $1 million as part of a federal agency’s project to ‘create a mor…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Feb 22, 2024

$131k grant to help BIPOC farmers ‘address entrenched legacies of racial injustice’

A $131,606 grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute aims to 'address entrenched legacies of racial injustice and tr…

By Robert Schmad '23
Feb 6, 2023

ANALYSIS: $1.7 trillion spending bill prioritizes DEI

The National Science Foundation received $7.8 billion in taxpayer dollars and supports LGBTQ+ Advocacy in STEM.

By Jared Gould
Dec 30, 2022

'Blackness' in STEM to be studied through $8.8M grant led by UIC

A National Science Foundation grant worth $8.8 million will be divided among six institutions to develop 'theories,…

By Caroline Cason '22
Nov 17, 2022

Federal gov pays university $750k to create tool that warns journalists against publishing 'polarizing' content

The NSF project titled "A System for Mapping the (Local) Journalism Life Cycle to Rebuild the Nation's News Trust" …

By Katelynn Richardson '22
Oct 22, 2021

$300k NSF grant to train student teachers on ‘systemic racism’

UNC Charlotte was awarded almost $300,000 to create training modules for student teachers on the effects of systemi…

By Kenlee Foskey '22
Oct 5, 2021

NSF grants nearly $7.5 million to universities developing anti-'misinformation' tools

The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $7.5 million for projects at ten universities developing 'tools…

By Katelynn Richardson '22
Sep 27, 2021

As Boghossian leaves PSU, school gets $1 mil for ‘antiracist’ computer science education

A federal agency gave Portland State University $1 million to develop “antiracist” computer science education in Or…

By Ben Zeisloft
Sep 13, 2021

US gov grants almost $2 million to research 'Equity and Antiracist learning' in high school computer science

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding $1.9 million toward “Researching Equity and Antiracist Learning” …

By Katelynn Richardson '22
Sep 7, 2021

NSF awards Bucknell almost $300k to 'uncover systemic inequities'

Bucknell scholars will use the funds to research 'issues facing women and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty t…

By Corey Walker '26
Aug 25, 2021

Universities developing app to 'monitor' users' COVID-19 'risk'

Users' coronavirus "risk" will "monitored" using, among other factors, their location data.

By Eduardo Neret
May 5, 2020

NSF hands out $45M to encourage Hispanic STEM students

The National Science Foundation has awarded $45 million to 31 “Hispanic-serving institutions” for projects designed…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Aug 21, 2018

National Science Foundation to grant $300K to make engineering more LGBTQ friendly

The American Society for Engineering Education is conducting the “diversity research” from July 1 of this year unti…

By Mariana Barillas
Jul 10, 2015