Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future

Tag: societal impact

• Merit Review: Investing in People and Ideas

  December 19, 2025

  While I was chair of the National Science Board (NSB), which is the Presidentially appointed body charged with oversight of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we launched a comprehensive review of how NSF selects and competitively awards funding for research proposals.  We did so recognizing that leadership of the United States in Science, Technology,…