The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J Trump” stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately”. “I wasn’t entirely surprised, to be honest,” dismissed board member Keivan Stassun said. Stassun, who works at Vanderbilt University, added that the decision was “enormously disappointing”. The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards and guide
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