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Dear Colleagues,
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has.
We’ve heard this message clearly from researchers across disciplines and settings. Science today is no longer a straight line from laboratory to application. Talent is more widely distributed beyond organizations that have traditionally received federal support. Philanthropies and the private sector have risen to become major players in both basic and applied research. Artificial intelligence is changing not only what we can study, but how research itself is organized.
To meet this moment, NSF is embracing a portfolio approach, where the structure of an award matches the nature of the work. We are expanding who carries out NSF-supported work and how, to enable ambitious, multidisciplinary inquiry at the scientific frontier. We will find and support exceptional students and early-career researchers, at the stage when research creativity is high. Our new Office of Metascience will rigorously assess the effectiveness of new initiatives, scaling what works and retiring what does not.
Many of these changes at NSF have already begun. We know none of this succeeds without you, NSF’s staff, reviewers, awardees, students, and partners across academia and industry. NSF’s role is to create conditions for exceptional science to happen more often and more frequently. We are
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