For the first time in National Science Foundation (NSF) history, women hold the positions of director and National Science Board (NSB) chair, and vice chair. During its May meeting, the board, which ...

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Alondra Nelson, a Biden appointee, announced her departure from the National Science Board in a scathing op-ed. The former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy resigned ...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, ...

Environmental science groups have been raising alarms this month about the role of scientific input at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since the Trump administration decided against ...

EPA Administrator Michael Regan today ousted all members of two premier advisory panels, saying that a “reset” was needed as part of a broader campaign to restore scientific integrity at the agency.

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Alondra Nelson, deputy director for science and society at OSTP, speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 16, 2021. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images). President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) independent board of science advisers, many of whom were appointed by President Trump, condemned the agency Tuesday for ignoring important research and the ...

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, meeting here with miners in Pennsylvania, has pushed scientists off the EPA's Science Advisory Board and added representatives from industries the agency regulates. A ...

After the Sioux City School Board spent three hours Saturday touring high school science classrooms, board member Jim Daane said his overriding impression was that they're inadequate, both in terms of ...