Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071#racisminscience #NSFFunding #antiAsianbias"The prevalence and persistence of these racial disparities in funding have cascading impacts that perpetuate a cumulative advantage to white PIs across all of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics."
Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation
White principal investigators applying to the National Science Foundation are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/science/asian-scientists-nsf-funding.html#asianresearchers #NSFFunding #bias #modelminority #NationalScienceFoundation "The success rate of proposals led by Asian scientists is about 20 percent below the overall rate — a disparity that has persisted for two decades and runs counter to the common narrative that Asian Americans dominate the sciences and engineering fields in the United States."
Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding Source
White researchers fared best in winning grants from the National Science Foundation, a study says. Asians encounter the highest rate of rejections, challenging an academic stereotype.
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