🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Comments
have a friend to check-in with in the morning.
“Although the agency is unable to offer fellowship support at this time, a subsequent announcement of additional awardees is possible subject to finalization of the agency's fiscal year 2025 spend plan”
That's correct about the President's Budget Request for FY26. And I *thought* FY25 was essentially done after the continuing resolution. But...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text
Now being battled out in the House...
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/egfp-nsf-epscor-graduate-fellowship-program
I think it's important to direct the very well-justified anger & frustration to those who have the most power to do something about it: Congress in this case.
But then saw from this weekend: Congress is still aiming to set an appropriations bill for *this year* that would override the CR.
But I hear your point about it being in anticipation, not yet happened.
And it's one of the first public indications of just how much NSF thinks its STEM education budget (the EDU directorate funds the GRFP) might be slashed by Congress.
(Prior, we only knew that new EDU awards were being evaluated but not issued)
2025: 3,018
2024: 1,719
I interpret as NSF's way of saying: "we had 1,000+ more graduate students we wanted to fund if we had the $"
[Honorable mentions don't come with $ amounts]
My HM email said " a subsequent announcement of additional awardees is possible subject to finalization of the agency's fiscal year 2025 spend plan." what the eff is a "spend plan"?
1. Even after the CR, Congress is *still* deliberating on the budget for this year, which could override the CR. See the budget blueprint from last Sat: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text
2. Even if the CR holds, there's still an internal issue of allocating at program level.
In other words, Congress has put NSF in a tough bind. And requires action from Congress to address. Call to elected representatives matter here.
One applicant had told me the GRFP was their shot of going to grad school this year.
[They hadn't gotten into any grad program, but guaranteed funding might have reversed that.]
For the 1,000 GRFP awardees, this can make a big difference.
But that's 1,000+ students fewer than what NSF has supported (and even more in terms of what this nation really needs).
Good. You should be. Science benefits everyone.
First, recognize that NSF cannot act alone. Last year's GRFP awards was also a cut relative to 2023's.
That was in direct response to cuts that Congress made:
Good -- these 13 House representatives are especially important (scroll up and down for more context).
Tell them how this rampage to STEM education and training threatens science & our economy.
But the following fields are public data for GRFP awardees and honorable mentions:
-Name
-Baccalaureate Institution
-Field of Study
-Current Institution
No public data for all applicants of course.