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3 weeks ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
On May 30, the Donald J. Trump administration released its official budget request for the National Science Foundation (NSF), detailing how the US agency plans to operate on a meager $3.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The proposed budget, which expands on Trump's earlier proposal, would slash the agency's budget by $5.1 billion, or 57%, from current funding levels.
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 20 proposed to extend the deadline for laboratories to comply with its methylene chloride rule by 18 months. The rule, finalized in May 2024, bans nearly all uses of methylene chloride, a popular solvent that has been linked to adverse health effects and 85 workplace and consumer deaths. The regulation carves out an exception for the solvent's use as a laboratory chemical.
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
Eight federal agencies will be terminating approximately $450 million in grants to Harvard University, according to a May 13 press release from the US Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock.comOn the eve of its 75th anniversary, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has told employees it will be undergoing a drastic restructuring. The changes, which were first reported by Science, would include dissolving the agency's divisional structure, firing some staff, and reducing the number of scientific experts the NSF relies on to help manage its programs.
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez |Laurel Oldach |Britt E. Erickson |Fionna Samuels
US president Donald J. Trump has proposed massive cuts to federal science programs for fiscal year 2026, which runs from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026. The proposal, also referred to as the "skinny" budget because it provides less detail than a full budget request, is in line with Trump's calls during his first term as president to slash funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other US federal agencies.
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1 month ago | 
pubs.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez |Laurel Oldach |Britt E. Erickson |Fionna Samuels
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will cap the reimbursement of facility and administrative (F&A) costs-also known as indirect costs -at 15% for all new grants, effective today. The NSF says in a policy notice that the new rule allows the agency and its awardees " to focus more on scientific progress and less on administrative overhead." Michael England, an NSF spokesperson, tells C&EN in an email that the policy will not be applied retroactively.
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1 month ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
The US National Science Foundation has terminated 1,042 active grants over the past 2 weeks, according to a list provided to C&EN by an internal NSF source, who insisted on anonymity out of fear of retribution. The agency terminated around 400 awards on April 18; the remainder were canceled on April 25. No grants associated with the foundation's chemistry division have been affected so far, but several chemistry education researchers have lost access to their funding.
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2 months ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
What started as a simple Bluesky post-" Get in dorks, we're going protesting"-transformed into 32 official Stand Up for Science rallies last month, as well as over 100 related events across the US and abroad.
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2 months ago | 
cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez
The US National Science Foundation announced last week that it has disbanded all 12 of its nonstatutory advisory committees, which had helped the agency determine what funding efforts to prioritize and how to best evaluate research proposals. Five committees required in statute are unaffected by this decision and will continue to meet. An NSF spokesperson, Michelle M. Negrón, told C&EN over email that the agency dissolved these committees in response to a Feb.
