Funding

JASON report recommends starting with people, not addresses

Tight budgets are undermining plans to save $5 billion

Researchers had complained about proposal review process, success rates

House bill, meanwhile, would eliminate ARPA-E and keep science funding flat

Top 10% of grantees get 37% of the money

Other disciplines also reeling from another budgetary body blow

House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation’s ability to set priorities

National contest, hands-on curriculum encourage undergraduate research

Biological and environmental research could see cuts

But climate and earth science see cuts, and ARPA-E is eliminated

Call for government to inject more cash

Trump cuts largely rejected

First move in annual budget process

Panel mostly rejects science cuts requested by Trump

Draft proposals first step in annual budget process

Rising salaries at Council of Scientific & Industrial Research labs leave little room for research