Natural Science Collections Alliance
Our members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities.
The Natural Science Collections Alliance submitted testimony to Congress in favor of increased funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF). The requested $7.5 billion would restore proposed cuts to research funding and enable continued investments in natural history collections. NSF requested $7.255 billion in fiscal year 2015. At this level, biological research funding would be […]
The Natural Science Collections Alliance and iDigBio will hold an important symposium on the future of collections this May. NSC Alliance members are encouraged to participate in “Collections for the 21st Century” at the University of Florida on May 5-6. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (ADBC) is in its […]
On March 10, 2014 the Smithsonian Institution selected Dr. David J. Skorton to be the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. Skorton will succeed the retiring G. Wayne Clough. Similar to Clough, who was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Skorton spent nearly eleven years as a college president, first at the University of Iowa […]
President Obama’s budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2015 requests $7.255 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF). This is a proposed increase of $83.1 million, or 1.2 percent over the FY 2014 appropriation. The proposed funding increase would be directed to education activities and for agency operations. Each of these budget accounts would increase […]
President Obama released his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2015 on 4 March 2014. The new fiscal year begins on 1 October 2014. The plan would provide $1.014 trillion for discretionary spending, the same level agreed to in the December 2013 Ryan-Murray budget accord. Most federal science agencies would receive a small budget increase […]