The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Monday that it is reinstating dozens of probationary employees that the Trump administration fired last month. Why it matters: The reversal comes after ...

Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative [whitehouse.gov] (“Workforce Optimization E.O.”),” an NSF spokesperson told Nextgov ...

The National Science Foundation — an independent federal agency that funds scientific research around the globe — has fired 168 probationary employees in adherence to orders from the White ...

Panch has been conveniently absent throughout this whole time,” said an internal email an NSF worker sent to fellow colleagues, referring to Sethuraman Panchanathan, NSF’s director.