research funding

A close-up of the top of a graduation cap that reads "right here is a future nurse," from a photo taken at commencement for Bowie State University in Maryland, a Historically Black College/University.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

March 20, 2025

The Threats to Higher Education: A Call to Action

Melissa L. Finucane
Former Staff

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March 5, 2025

Musk Is Pushing the Great American Innovation Machine to the Brink

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

A person holds up an enormous zucchini, smiling (the person, not the zucchini). They are part of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a Land-Grant Tribal College and University. They are Land-Grant program Gardner Teresa Kaulaity Quintana (Kiowa), who leads the gardening team, operations, instruction and outreach for all things related the campus demonstration garden and greenhouse, in Santa Fe, NM. Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2019.

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December 6, 2022

How Should the USDA Spend its Research Budget? (We Have Some Ideas.)

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

photo of a tray of soybean sprouts in the foreground and a lab technician conducting tests in the background

US Department of Agriculture

May 10, 2022

As Climate and Nutrition Crises Collide, We Need a New Research Agenda

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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April 30, 2020

Trump Administration Axes Coronavirus Research

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer in a shaded coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico. They use diverse shaded coffee as a model system to study ecological complexity and its implications for farm management and biodiversity conservation.

August 2, 2017

Agroecology to the Rescue: 7 Ways Ecologists are Working Toward Healthier Food Systems

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Photo: Iowa State University/Lisa Schulte Moore

April 17, 2017

Sustainable Agriculture on the Chopping Block in Iowa

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Keefe Keeley, Savanna Institute

February 2, 2017

These Investments in Food and Farm Research Will Pay Us Back—Urban and Rural Alike

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

May 12, 2016

Soils to Reverse Climate Change: “Carbon Farming” and the Untapped Potential in Ecological Approaches

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

January 11, 2016

There’s New Support for Agricultural Research in 2016—But What Kind of Green Revolution Should We Aim For?

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor