At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.

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At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come

The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the US government as the Trump administration seeks to shrink federal agencies.

It wasn’t until the 1950 establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest funding source for basic research in the country, that America became a powerhouse of modernization. F or most of the past century,

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

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.

Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more Feature With the National Science Foundation cutting staff to comply with President Trump's order for sweeping federal government layoffs,