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March 2024 COSSA Headlines

Research and Education Programs and Priorities of the STEM Education Directorate at NSF

Why Social Science?

Because It Makes an Outsized Impact on Policy

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COSSA's Analysis of Final FY 2024 Appropriations for Federal Science Agencies— PART I

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Featured News

from the COSSA Washington Update

Featured News

from the COSSA Washington Update

NSF selects Kaye Husbands Fealing to lead the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate

On February 29, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that Kaye Husbands Fealing has been selected to lead the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). Her appointment will begin on…

Congress Balances FY 2024 Budget and Supplemental Funding Package as CR Deadline Approaches

As previously reported, Congress is slowly inching closer to the end of their continuing resolution (CR) that expires on tiered deadlines in the first two weeks of March. While House…

Congress Inches Toward FY 2024 Conclusion

As we move further into the fiscal year (FY), lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to work toward finalizing appropriations for FY 2024. As previously reported, Congress pushed its deadline to complete…