Take-home points Research!America just announced its 2026 Civic Engagement Microgrant cohort, selecting 17 projects from 132 applicants to fund early-career scientists building local civic science initiatives...
The $1.5M of total grants will enable the six awardees to “implement bold institutional reforms” to faculty hiring, evaluation, promotion, and tenure systems to align with...
"So much of it is just luck. I was privileged to have people around me who were able to pay my rent and help me survive...
The sentiment and general outlook are pessimistic about the availability of funding for civic science work.
What’s new: The National Science Foundation has archived its long-running Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which was a major source of funding for informal science, science communication, citizen...
How are stakeholders actually feeling about the current state of civic science funding? We all have our own read on the situation as funders, applicants, scholars,...
As the science and engineering community seeks to secure funding streams for science opportunities outside traditional school settings, they should emphasize to funders the importance of...
Launched in 2018 by the Civic Science Media (CSM) Lab, the now-concluded Sai Fellows Program was designed to mentor and equip early-stage founders in building informal STEM learning and...
In this episode of Questions of the Day on CivicSciTV, I sit down with Jennifer Frazer, science writer and author of the upcoming book The Slime...
We interview Dr. John C. Besley, Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations at Michigan State University, about Trust in Scientists and Their Role in Society...
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