The National Science Foundation is scrapping research awards, the agency announced Friday afternoon.
The science agency — whose broad research funding includes projects at universities, nonprofits and industry — has begun terminating awards “that are not aligned with NSF’s priorities,” the agency posted on its website.
The terminated awards include but are “not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation,” the agency said. An NSF spokesperson declined to comment on how many awards were affected.
The funding cuts are the latest move from the Trump administration to enact deep reductions in federal spending and the workforce. The administration is looking to ax spending across the government on programs that don’t align with its policy priorities.
