Action Alert: Endorse the NSF for the Future Act

Posted by Public Affairs on May 25, 2021

May 25, 2021

Dear ESA Members:

The US House of Representatives may be considering the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Future Act (H.R. 2225) soon. The bill would reauthorize landmark legislation for the National Science Foundation (NSF), provide steady, increasing funding levels for NSF and also create a new Technology and Engineering Solutions Directorate. The bill contains provisions for diversity, equity and inclusion to broaden research opportunities in underserved communities and expands the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

The House Science Committee will be voting shortly to pass the bill out of Committee and onto the full House. ESA is formally endorsing the legislation and our letter is posted on the House Science Committee website.

We encourage you to also support the NSF for the Future Act by signing the letter online that our sister society, the American Physical Society (APS), has offered for our use.

The letter will remain open for sign-on through Tuesday, June 1. Once the letter is closed, APS will deliver a single letter with all signee names included to the House Science Committee and House leadership.

APS disengaged any opt-in functions, so signing on does not opt the signer into getting APS emails or texts. Signees will appear in APS’s grassroots system for this one activity, but APS does not share/sell user information.

Thank you,

ESA Public Affairs Office

More Information

Legislation

H.R. 2225, the National Science Foundation for the Future Act

Additional Materials

Two-Page Summary

Section-by-Section

Issues in Science and Technology: A Bipartisan Vision for the Future of American Science

Endorsements

American Astronomical Society

American Chemical Society

American Geophysical Union

American Educational Research Association

American Institute of Biological Sciences

American Mathematical Society

American Physical Society

American Physiological Society

American Political Science Association

American Society for Engineering Education

American Society for Microbiology

Association for Psychological Science

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Plant Biologists

Association of Science and Technology Centers

Boston University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student Assembly

Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Computing Research Association

Consortium of Social Science Associations

Council of Graduate Schools

Ecological Society of America

Entomological Society of America

Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Georgia Institute of Technology

HIBAR Research Alliance

MIT Graduate Student Council

Natural Science Collections Alliance

OSA-The Optical Society

Pennsylvania State University

Population Association of America

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

State University System of Florida

University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Rochester

University of Vermont

University of Virginia

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