“A bill to establish a program at the National Science Foundation to fund research awards to reproduce federally funded research.”
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This section defines Director as the Director of the National Science Foundation, institution of higher education by reference to section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and STEM as the academic and professional disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
This section authorizes the Director to make competitive merit-review awards to institutions of higher education to replicate federally funded research. It prohibits discrimination or preferential treatment in grant conditions or reviews on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or other characteristics protected under federal law. It requires applications to identify the original research, demonstrate capacity with minimal new infrastructure, disclose conflicts, and provide reproducibility metrics and timelines; limits funds to tuition, stipends, materials, travel, and analysis costs; restricts student eligibility to U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents pursuing full-time STEM master’s degrees without a prior doctoral degree; and mandates reports to the Senate Commerce and House Science committees 18 months after the first award and annually thereafter on the number of awards and students, fields and agencies, and reproducibility findings.