"The longest government shutdown in history has kept the National Science Foundation from divvying out grants that were worth $127 million in the same period last year."
"In early November, Jamie Rowen, an author and assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was notified that she had been selected to receive a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The awards, distributed annually to support junior faculty members in science and engineering, will provide her with a $500,000, 5-year grant to research and write a book about veterans in the criminal justice system.
For the last two years, Rowen has been studying Veteran Treatment Courts, which provide addiction and mental health treatment to military veterans as an alternative to incarceration ― all issues that the Trump administration has prioritized. Rowen expected to receive final approval from NSF this month and funding in early February. But the ongoing partial government shutdown ― the longest in America’s history ― has prevented awards from being processed.
“When you write out these grants, you write out timelines,” Rowen told HuffPost. “My timeline is now blown up.”"
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