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Saturday, August 2, 2025

NSF Fund Suspensions


From Inside Higher Ed: ...An NSF spokesperson said that [UCLA's] awards “are not in alignment with current NSF priorities and/or programmatic goals,” though they didn’t offer more specifics. NSF changed its priorities in April and, as a result, cut off funding to programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and those aimed at combating misinformation.

Freelance journalist Dan Garisto* wrote on BlueSky that nearly 300 grants at UCLA are now suspended. That includes a $25 million grant that supports the university’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. (In 2022, UCLA had about 450 grants from the NSF, totaling more than $350 million.) ...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/01/national-science-foundation-suspends-grants-ucla.

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*The chart above is from Garisto:

https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lvbpcl4ais2q.

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