Trump fired the National Science Board. Oh No!

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The agency provided $905,642 for a “qualitative inquiry into sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology and their impacts on transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students” to create a “more inclusive environment.”

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The NSF provided $119,520 for a conference titled “Re-imagining Biology Education Through Social Justice,” featuring a talk on “Gender-Inclusive Adaptations to Biology Teaching.”

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$772,953 in spending on “Black Feminist Epistemologies: Building a Sisterhood in Computing.”

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$399,930 was spent on a project to honor “indigenous knowledge” by “infusing native ways of knowing into engineering education,” but without engaging in the “misappropriation of indigenous knowledge.”

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The NSF provided $1.29 million to promote “youth as participatory designers of indigenous mixed reality science exhibits” that address “the ongoing marginalization of indigenous communities in informal science learning spaces.”

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$3 million NSF grant in quantum mechanics will “detect phenomena that evade identification in the human-scaled realm of lived experience,” such as how “students perceive themselves as science learners via their science identity, [and] racial and gender identity.”

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