NSF and NSF EPSCoR featured in Science journal article

The $160 million Engine grants are supposed to improve economic conditions in what NSF describes as “those regions of America that have not fully participated in the technology boom of the past several decades.”

Many lawmakers believe that NSF hasn’t done enough to address those disparities, pointing out that five states receive almost 40% of its research dollars. Some applicants fear it isn’t going far enough. For 4 decades NSF has run a program, called EPSCoR, designed to help smaller and more rural states boost their research capacity.