July 30, 2020
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To:
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director National Science Foundation,
Dr. Ellen Ochoa (Chair), and the members of the National Science Board
CC: NSF GRFP Program officers: Drs. Jong-on Hahm, Christopher Hill, and Narcrisha S. Norman
Dear NSF Leadership and Program Officers of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program,
We write to you as members of the scientific community concerned about the recent Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) solicitation 20-587. Specifically, we are troubled by the identification of specific priority research areas:
“[I]n FY2021, GRFP will emphasize three high priority research areas in alignment with NSF goals. These areas are Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Information Science, and Computationally Intensive Research. Applications are encouraged in all disciplines supported by NSF that incorporate these high priority research areas.”
The GRFP is one of NSF’s most prestigious awards and has been the starting point for many of the US’s leading scientists. NSF’s stated purpose for the GRFP is to “help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States.” We, the signatories to this letter believe in this purpose and the concomitant obligation to the highest standards for scientific merit, inclusion, equity, and diversity. We are writing to you because this revision to the GRFP solicitation is both contrary to the program’s goals and harmful.
The GRFP has already come under public scrutiny, with Science reporting that just 10 universities represented 31% of 2019 awards. [1] Preferring certain research areas will mean a movement away from the GRFP’s unique purpose in identifying and supporting the best scientists in any field and towards giving priority to one field over others. The change will also further contribute to the disproportionate awarding of the GRFP to students who attend schools with the most resources – a small handful of predominantly white, exclusionary undergraduate institutions. Contrary to the community’s request that NSF broaden participation in this program, the proposed change will further limit the potential for applications and awards from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).
The consensus of research and reports funded or written by NSF, National Science Board, and the US National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine [2-12] make it clear that underrepresented students, including people of color, women and gender minorities of all races, rural, first-generation, and low-income students have differential access and exposure to the areas now prioritized by the GRFP. While we fully believe in the importance of computationally-driven technologies in the sciences, bringing this emphasis into the GRFP amplifies the digital divide. In addition, emphasizing these research areas as the entry point to research careers may further disenfranchise students from underrepresented communities who are more susceptible to bias and data privacy abuses from AI/ML-driven technologies (and who therefore have heightened concerns about data privacy and bias). These students might be better served through culturally-sensitive exposure and training as undergraduates to allow them to develop informed agency in their decision making on these technologies.
Altogether, the revision sends a clearly exclusionary message and potentially adds to the problems noted in the 2014 evaluation of the GRFP (79.9% of fellows are white). [2] This disparity continues to be reflected on the list of GRFP alumni highlighted by NSF which features only three women and two persons of color. [13]
Commentators on social media and more than 3,000 people have signed a Change.org petition [14] calling for the removal of this revision. Many expressed concerns that the revision imposes a new requirement and a barrier that they themselves could not have met as past trainees. The recent clarification via Twitter (see below) insufficiently addresses this concern. Only changing the solicitation text itself could partially remedy our concerns.
NSF Tweet (July 28, 2020) https://twitter.com/NSF/status/1288082834574409728
The issue of merit raised in the tweet is important. Newly suggested areas of emphasis may reduce application quality, as students try to craft their GRFP proposals to incorporate inappropriate or premature approaches.
We strongly urge NSF to eliminate the preference for a narrow set of research areas (including revision 4 and elsewhere in the text) from the solicitation.
NSF has in recent years changed GRFP eligibility requirements to encourage a greater number of undergraduate applicants, [15] but this has unfortunately only increased disparities in funding awardees. [1,16,17] The addition of priority areas runs counter to NSF’s effort to diversify and expand the applicant pool. One of the GRFP’s greatest strengths is that it encourages trainees to develop their own research ideas pathways on the way to becoming independent investigators. This reflects NSF’s intent for GRFP of “investing in the person”. Avoiding preferences for specific fields of science would allow the GRFP to better align with NSF’s basic research mission. Eliminating the preferences sends the message that all modes of investigation (computationally-intensive or not) have the promise of advancing knowledge.
Instead of reserving some of the GRFP awards for priority areas, we suggest that NSF instead build capacity in the US science and engineering workforce by creating complementary programs. For example, the GRFP could create opportunities for award recipients to develop computational skills similar to the Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) and Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) programs. NSF could also expand XSEDE access in undergraduate education. NSF could also consider adopting initiatives to address potential issues related to ethics of data policy, use, and stewardship at earlier stages of training, so that all students, not just GRFP applicants, could benefit from this global contextualization.
We also encourage going above and beyond the high standard for NSF review by implementing a new level of transparency for the GRFP review process. This could include additional training of panelists for cultural sensitivity and bias. Community input into a new review process for GRFP could better ensure the students selected reflect the diversity we aspire to see within science.
There are many ways NSF can advance US research priorities without perpetuating disparities that exist for scholars at the beginning of their careers. The co-authors and other signatories extend an offer to share community perspectives to continue to improve access and inclusion in the GRFP. We look forward to a revised GRFP solicitation from NSF that meets its vision for inclusive science in the US.
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| Name/Organization | Institution | Discipline(s) | GRFP Applicant/Awardee GRFP | NSF-funded investigator | Career stage | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Williams* | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic staff/administrative | ||
| Carrie Diaz Eaton* | Bates College | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Education, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Chelsea Hetherington | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | I am an NSF GRFP alum, awarded in 2013 | |
| Alessandra Zimmermann* | Proposal Analytics | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | Research professional | |||
| Matthew Cover* | California State University Stanislaus | Biological and life sciences, Education | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Yasmeen Musthafa* | UC Irvine | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Elisah VandenBussche* | University of Minnesota | Engineering | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jess Annai Millar* | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Terry McGlynn* | California State University Dominguez Hills | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Christian Cazares* | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | Neurosciences Graduate Program | |
| Morgan W. Tingley* | University of California - Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Mark Mandel* | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| David A Baltrus | University of Arizona | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| George Iskander* | University of Chicago | Mathematical and physical sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Rajini Rao* | Johns Hopkins University | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Krystal S. Tsosie* | Vanderbilt University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Graduate Student and Research Professional | |||
| Holly (Helen) Beale | University California Santa Cruz | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | 2004 honorable mention, mentor of 2020 awardee | |
| Christine Liu* | UC Berkeley | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Carol Lushbough* | University of South Dakota | Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Jeff Letourneau* | Duke University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | We need greater diversity of GRFP awardees. | |
| Jonathan Puritz* | University of Rhode Island | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | I think that it would be great to add to the call for reviewer transparency. I think that we should also call for increasing the diversity and participation of reviewers, encouraging reviewers from multiple career stages (even graduate students) and from a variety of institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). |
| Sarah Tuttle* | University of Washington, Seattle | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Dr. Alice Boyle* | Kansas State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Chelsea Catania* | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Engineering | ★ | Postdoctoral Associate | ||
| Bill Wuest* | Emory University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | I have advised four NSF GRFs. | |
| Mark Silby* | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Karen G. Lloyd* | University of Tennessee | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Murti Nauth | UC Berkeley | Mathematical and physical sciences, Astronomy | ★ | Graduate student | Fisk University, Vanderbilt University | |
| Daniel I. Bolnick* | University of Connecticut | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Craig Kaplan* | University of Pittsburgh | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Massa Shoura* | Stanford University Medical Center | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Engineering, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral fellow | Female, Syrian-American | |
| Benjamin Allen | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Education | Academic staff/administrative | |||
| Dan Chitwood | Michigan State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Ivan Baxter | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| April Wright | Southeastern Louisiana University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | I train students in one of the emphasized disciplines. I am nonetheless concerned that this language represents a shift that is antithetical to the mission of funding promising young scientists. |
| Jeremy B. Yoder | California State University Northridge | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Ruth Isenberg | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Peter Puleo | Northwestern University | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Brian Nord | University of Chicago | Computer, information, and data sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | Research professional | |||
| Anne Hilborn | UC Riverside | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoc | ||
| Ben Harris | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Olivia Goldman* | The Rockefeller University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Claire Teitelbaum | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sarah Turner-Hissong | Bayer Crop Science | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Sabine Stanley | Johns Hopkins University | Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Andrew Nelson | Boyce Thompson Institute | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Daria Pidhorodetska | UC Riverside | Computer, information, and data sciences, Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Maria E. Orive | University of Kansas | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Laura Boykin* | Cassava Virus Action Project | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Research professional | TED Senior Fellow | ||
| Científico Latino* | SAME | All of the above | ||||
| Nameer R. Baker | Kellogg Biological Station LTER | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Debbie Gale Mitchell | University of Denver | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Benjamin Soto | Johns Hopkins University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Ellen L. Simms | University of California, Berkeley | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Maria Sagot | Suny Oswego | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Avery Russell | Missouri State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Chelsea Weaver | University of Kentucky | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Sarah Unruh | Illinois College | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Michael W. Busch | SETI Institute | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Kelsey Yule | Arizona State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic staff/administrative | ||
| Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | University of New Hampshire | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Robert Schaeffer | Utah State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Rubén Rellán-Álvarez | North Carolina State University | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| John Morgan Christoph | School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University | Geosciences, Planetary science, materials science, astronomy/astrophysics | Graduate student | |||
| Dr. Hannah Reich | University of Rhode Island | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| William Brazelton | University of Utah | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Tobias Schraink | NYu School of Medicine | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Jenny Yang | University of California, Irvine | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Acadia Kocher | Yale University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Emily Rollinson | East Stroudsburg University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Jay Forsythe | College of Charleston | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| David Brown | Washington State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Emily Rice | CUNY | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Jed Brown | CU Boulder | Computer, information, and data sciences, Engineering, Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | The present emphasis is favorable to students who might work with me, and yet I still sign this letter because of the inequitableThe present emphasis is favorable to students who might work with me, and yet I still sign this letter because of the inequitalbe cThe present emphasis is favorable to students who might work with me, and yet I still sign this letter because of the inequitalbe consequences. | |
| Jana U’Ren | University of Arizona | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Allison Shultz | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Ben Mansfeld | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Post Doctoral Fellow | ||
| Corrie Moreau | Cornell University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Richard L. Brutchey | University of Southern California | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Dylan Schwilk | Texas Tech University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Laura Lagomarsino | Louisiana State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Emily T. Baltz | University of California San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Kelsang Dolma | Yale College | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences, Ethnic studies | Member of the public | |||
| Caren Barceló | UC Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Alyssa H. Sinclair | Duke University | Biological and life sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience | ★ | Graduate student | 2019-2023 NSF GRFP fellow | |
| Katherine Bultman | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Kathryn Campbell-Kibler | Ohio State University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Yasha Duggal | Pennsylvania State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Naupaka Zimmerman | University of San Francisco | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | Thank you for doing this. I was also concerned when I saw the announcement. |
| Kevin Wright* | Oregon Health & Science University | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Breanna Harris | Texas Tech University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| G. Matt Davies | The Ogio State University | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Laura Sanchez | University of Illinois at Chicago | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Emily Levesque | University of Washington | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Natasha Strydom* | University of California San Francisco | Computer, information, and data sciences | Research professional | |||
| Alex Rudolph | Cal Poly Pomona and Cal-Bridge | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Karl Grieshop | University of Toronto | Biological and life sciences | Research professional | |||
| Yan Xia | Stanford University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Dylan Craven* | Universidad Mayor | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Koby Ljunggren | Harvard University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Lucianne Walkowicz* | The Adler Planetarium / The JustSpace Alliance | Computer, information, and data sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Melissa Drown | University of Miami | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | In addition to disparities in NSF GRFP Funding for underrepresented ethnic minorities I would like to raise concern regarding data collected by NSF to designate underrepresented status. Currently, data is not collected on LGBT or sexual and gender minority (SGM) status by the NSF. A lack of data available prevents the status of these groups in STEM, which have been shown to be underrepresented especially at the undergraduate and graduate level, from being known. A recent supreme court ruling now provides legal precedent preventing discrimination in the workplace for LGBT and SGM identifying individuals. It is time for the NSF to begin collecting data on LGBT and SGM representation in STEM fields to better understand the status of these groups within their funding infrastructure. | |
| Samantha Sison | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jillybeth Burgado | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | Neurosciences Graduate Student; Lab at the Salk Institute | |
| Logan Pearce | University of Arizona Steward Observatory | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Joshua Wythe* | Baylor College of Medicine | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Grace Pold | California Polytechnic State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Taylor Miller-Ensminger | Loyola University Chicago | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | NSF -GRFP 2020 awardee | |
| Nick Adams* | Goodly Labs | Computer, information, and data sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | While I support the academic data science movement, the NSF's recent revision to the GRFP is yet another failure of order of operations. Hiring and tenure committees need to adopt alt metrics supporting data science before we ask even one more graduate student to sacrifice their career for it. Moreover, limiting grad student support to those who are already adopting these scientific approaches presumes that grad students enter their programs ready to do data science. Only the most privileged grad students are in that position. Let's keep moving in the right direction, but order the incentive structures so more people can succeed as academic data scientists. |
| John Serences | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Melissa Galinato | University of California, Berkeley | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Rachel Cassidy | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Nicole Zampieri | Florida State University | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jared Streich | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Biological and life sciences | Postdoc | |||
| Jeffrey A. Lewis | University of Arkansas | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Matthew Chalkley | University of California, San Francisco | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | Changes to the GFRP should be aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion, not at further narrowing the pool of eligible awardees | |
| Andrew Su | Scripps Research | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Shan Kothari | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sarah Knutie | University of Connecticut | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Peter Whitehead | Duke University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Anousheh Bakhti-Suroosh | University of California San Diego | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Hilary McMillan | San Diego State University | Geosciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Christopher Gonzalez | University of California San Diego | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Olubankole Aladesuyi Arogundade | University of California San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Paula Welander | Stanford University | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Sophia Sánchez-Maes | Harvard | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | Please also identify PBIs (predominantly black institutions) alongside HBCUs and other minority serving institutions in the letter. | |
| Erin de Leon Sanchez | University of California, Santa Barbara | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Alynda Wood | Emory University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Ted Laderas* | Oregon Health & Science University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Education | Academic faculty | |||
| Emily Wilkins | Utah State University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Edgar Francisco | Stanford | Biological and life sciences | Undergraduate student | |||
| Taylor Tobin | University of Notre Dame, Dept of Physics | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Research Associate | ||
| Morgan Carter | University of Arizona | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Researcher | ||
| Paul Orwin* | CSU San Bernardino | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Katherine Mueller | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Engineering | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jennifer Jensen | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Seraphina Solders | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Rosie Alegado | University of Hawaii Manoa | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Mike Wilkins | Colorado State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Seth Bordenstein* | Vanderbilt University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Sarah Bonitatibus | University of Oklahoma | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Dr. Michael MacFerrin | University of Colorado, CIRES Institute | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Jason Dinh | Duke University | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Minerva Contreras | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Susan Baxter | San Diego State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Adjunct Professor/ Retired Administrator | CSU I-Corps, BIO I-Corps | |
| Daniel Barton | Humboldt State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | I was a GRFP fellow, I have advised GRFP fellows, and I am an NSF panelist. |
| Oscar C González | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Medicine | |
| Lauren Gonzalez | Yale University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Matt Johnson | Texas Tech University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Bradley Cardinale, Professor | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Julie K. Lundquist | University of Colorado Boulder | Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Nazeefa Fatima | Concerned Scientist | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Graduated (MSc) | |||
| Bethanny Danskin | University of California: San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Rafael Guerrero | North Carolina State University | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Hao Ye | University of Florida | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Julianne Davis | UNC Chapel Hill | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Beth Adamowicz | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Research professional | |||
| Nicholas Asby | University of Chicago | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Ujjwal Panda | BITS Pilani | Mathematical and physical sciences | Undergraduate student | |||
| Rebecca Leshan | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biological and life sciences | Academic staff/administrative | |||
| Karolina Heyduk | University of Hawai'i at Manoa | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Abigail Cahill | Albion College | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| James H. Peniston | University of Florida | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Mark Levin | University of Chicago | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | 2012 GRFP fellow, and adviser to a 2020 recipient | |
| Nichole Broderick | Johns Hopkins University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Fenna Krienen | Harvard Medical School | Biological and life sciences | Postdoctoral Fellow | |||
| Lauren Frankel | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jessica Werk | University of Washington Astronomy Department | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Katherine Wilkinson | San Jose State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Madelon F. Case | University of Oregon | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Desiree Chu | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jeremy A. Gibbs* | University of Oklahoma | Geosciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Laureano Gherardi | Arizona State University | Biological and life sciences | Research professional | |||
| Charlotte Francoeur | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Pleuni Pennings | San Francisco State University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | Promoting Inclusivity in Computing Program at SFSU | |
| Paul Vincelli | University of Kentucky | Plant Pathology | Academic faculty | |||
| Daniel C Allen | University of Oklahoma | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Tiffany Lowe-Power | University of California, Davis | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| 500 Women Scientists New Haven Pod | same | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Education, Engineering, Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | |||
| Nicole Hoffner | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Andrew Saydjari | Harvard Physics | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Chhaya Werner | iDiv | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Fellow | NSF GRFP recipient | |
| Benjamin Dickman | The Hewitt School | Education, I work as a math teacher at a K-12 institution; could be Education, could be Mathematics. My NSFGRFP award was in "STEM EDUCATION AND LEARNING RESEARCH - Mathematics Education." | ★ | K-12 Teacher-Scholar | ||
| Jessica Oehrlein | Columbia University | Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Mariela Garcia Arredondo | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Rajiv McCoy | Johns Hopkins University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago | Columbia University | Mathematical and physical sciences | Graduate student | Awardee of NASA's FINESST, President of the Columbia Physics Graduate Council | ||
| Catherine Rushworth | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of California Davis, University of California Berkeley | |
| Emmett Leddin | University of North Texas | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Joseph D. Ortiz | Kent State University, Dept. of Geology | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Leia Stirling | University of Michigan | Engineering | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Abigail Sisti | Virginia Institute of Marine Science | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Katherine A. Corn | University of California, Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Giordano Lippi* | The Scripps Research Institute | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Ashley McGuigan | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Stephen D. Levene | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, DALLAS | Biological and life sciences, Engineering, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Shayle Matsuda | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Summer Blanco | Michigan State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Post-bac | ||
| Pratik Gandhi | UC Davis | Mathematical and physical sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Jessica Rick | University of Wyoming | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Angela Andersen | Concerned Scientist | Biological and life sciences | Member of the public | |||
| Kenneth C Millett | University of California, Santa Barbara | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Julia Willett | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoctoral Fellow | |
| Lori M. Pigue (Glaspie as awarded) | Northern Arizona University | Geosciences, Astronomy & Planetary Sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Callie Oldfield | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Taylor Jacovich | George Washington University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | Center for Astrophysics | |
| Stephan Hoyer | Google Research | Computer, information, and data sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Research professional | I won a GRFP award in 2010 and have focused on AI, QIS and CIR for my entire research career. | |
| Dr. Kate Laskowski | UC Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Mauna Dasari | University of Notre Dame | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | GRFP HM winner and first gen academic - I was lucky to have two chances to apply for the grfp since I started grad school in 2015. I had no idea what it was prior to starting grad school, and all the changes they’ve since made to the grfp will only increase its exclusivity to cis white academics at Ivy League institutions. | |
| Jacob Quinn Shenker | Harvard Medical School | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Dr. Allison Bronson | Humboldt State University | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Claire Riggs | Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| Aida Behmard | California Institute of Technology | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jason E. Miller | California State University Channel Islands | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Isabella Muratore | Boston University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Matthew Bond | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | ★ | postdoc | |
| Nolan Smyth | UC Santa Cruz | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Megan Barkdull | Cornell University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jonathan Rivnay | Northwestern University | Engineering, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| David Sherman | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | It is important to obtain consensus from the scientific community prior to setting these new guidelines. | |
| Oriana Fisher | Lehigh University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Ryan Golden | University of California, San Diego, Neurosciences Graduate Program | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Caitlin Bumby | University of New Orleans | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Reid Rumelt* | Cornell University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Annika Nelson | Virginia Tech | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Associate | ||
| Sarah Leinbach | Auburn University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Matthew Ando | University of Illinois | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Leno B Smith Jr | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Melissa Moulton | University of Washington | Engineering, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Brianna Marsh | University of California San Diego | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Paul Carvalho | University of Rhode Island | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Erik Brush | University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Catherine Alves | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | I am a NSF-GRFP grantee and I highly doubt I would have received the award if I applied this year due to the new guidelines. | |
| Schuyler Borges | Northern Arizona University | Geosciences, Astrobiology | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Joshua T Atkinson | University of Southern California | Biological and life sciences, Engineering | ★ | ★ | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
| Kyle E. Coblentz | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| Katherine Lo* | Northwestern University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Mark McPeek | Dartmouth College | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic staff/administrative | |
| Aaron Benjamin Regberg | NASA | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | Research professional | |||
| Mark Krzmarzick | Oklahoma State University | Engineering | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Kevin Bird | Michigan State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Alex Ahmed | Northeastern University (alum) | Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Cady van Assendelft | Stanford University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Claire Evensen | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Biological and life sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Brad Butterfield | Northern Arizona University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Zachary Goldberg | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Ashley Hayden | Baylor College of Medicine | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Lauren Levesque | San Francisco State University | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Lisa Barrow | University of New Mexico | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Brian Kron | Bowling Green State University | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Caitlin C Conn | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Allen J. Moore | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Emily Jean Leptich | Baylor College of Medicine | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Daniela Escontrela | University of Hawai‘i | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Ryan Greenway | Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Researcher | ||
| Beth Schultz | Wittenberg University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Amy Lytle | Franklin & Marshall College | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Gregory F. Grether | University of California Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Annakate Schatz | University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Abby Guthmann | Universoty of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Mariana rocha | UC Santa Cruz | Biological and life sciences | ★ | PREP student | ||
| David Vasquez Jr | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Daniel Robertson | UCLA | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Rachel N Arey | Baylor College of Medicine | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Breanna Putman PhD | California State University San Bernardino | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Alex Thompson | University of Vermont | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Madeleine Zuercher | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Naga Rama Kothapalli* | University of Oklahoma | Biological and life sciences, Education | ★ | Academic faculty | Director of FYRE program at OU | |
| Tierney Shaible | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Van Savage | UCLA | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Gabriella Kitch | Northwestern University | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Ariel Starr | University of Washington | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Hilary Palevsky | Boston College | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Alison Lipman | UCLA | Ecology | Academic faculty | |||
| Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez | Oregon State University | Engineering | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Nathan Kraft | University of California, Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Kelsi Marie | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Keduse Worku | Yale University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Carole L. Hom | University of California, Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic staff/administrative | |
| Michelle Muzzio* | Brown University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Research professional | NSF GRFP Alum 2016 | |
| Nicholas Rolston | Stanford University | Engineering | ★ | ★ | Graduate student | |
| Cuong Tran | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jess Shamek | Portland State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Marcel Carita Vaz | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Kyle Niemeyer | Oregon State University | Engineering | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Luca Beale | Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Alissa Matus | UC Irvine | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | I'm a 2020 NSF-GRFP awardee and fully endorse the statements made in this open letter. | |
| Maggie R. Wagner | University of Kansas | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Conor Broderick | Macalester College | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Timothy Greives | North Dakota State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Jennifer Momsen | North Dakota State University | Biological and life sciences, Education | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Marie van Staveren | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematical and physical sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Jeana Drake | UCLA | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Katherine Conner | The Ohio State University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Chris S. Hulleman, Ph.D. | University of Virginia | Education, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Cameron Tracy | Union of Concerned Scientists | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Emily Mixon | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Asmeret Asefaw Berhe | University of California, Merced | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Sara Zlotnik | University of Florida | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Amy Ryan | University of California Davis | Biological and life sciences | Postdoctoral Scholar | This solicitation is antithetical to the mission of NSF to support scientists performing basic research in all fields from "astronomy to geology to zoology" (as you describe it). | ||
| Catherine Hulshof | Virginia Commonwealth University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Amy Dao | Cal Poly Pomona | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Holly Korthas | Georgetown University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Leigh Anne Harden | Benedictine University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Elizabet B. Watson | Drexel University / Academy of Natural Sciences | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| William Thomas | Ohio State University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Daniel Karp | University of California, Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Veronica Padilla Vriesman | UC Davis | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Conner Philson | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Michael Baym* | Harvard Medical School | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Gaurav Kandlikar | University of California, Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Peggy Fong | UCLA | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Megan Westwood | Missouri State University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Talea Mayo | Emory University | Computer, information, and data sciences, Geosciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Erika Marin-Spiotta | UW-Madison | Biological and life sciences, Education, Geosciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Chris Soteros | University | Mathematical and physical sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Robert D. Cooper | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Acacia Ackles | Michigan State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | NSF GRFP recipient working in computationally intensive science | |
| Katie Inderbitzen | Independent Scientist | Geosciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Researcher | ||
| Julie Miller | University of California Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| Rachel Turba | University of California, Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Madison Plunkert | University of Maryland College Park | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Richard Hall* | UGA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Chelsie Romulo | University of Northern Colorado | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Miguel Pacheco | Johns Hopkins University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Desiree Narango | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Biological and life sciences | Postdoc | |||
| Marissa Raskin | University of Texas at Austin | Biological and life sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Donald G. Buth | University of California (UCLA) | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Sarah M Brown | University of Rhode Island | Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | GRFP recipient 2011 | |
| Rosa M. McGuire | University of California - Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Harim Won | Harvard University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | Awarded in 2020 | |
| Peter Homyak | UCR | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Samuel Bressler | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Casey Youngflesh | University of California - Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | Academic staff/administrative | |||
| Nicholas Gladman | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
| Gabriele Rozenbergaite | UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Biological and life sciences | Academic staff/administrative | |||
| Lissie Connors | University of Oregon | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Joshua Shapiro, PhD | Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Thomas B. Smith | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| John Hodge* | Oklahoma State University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Teamrat A Ghezzehei | UC Merced | Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Marianna Zhang | Stanford University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jim Havrilla | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Research professional | Provide opportunities for diverse students to learn these things not give money to those who already know | ||
| Jordan Dowell* | University of Central Florida | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences, Mathematical and physical sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis | CSU San Bernardino | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Peter Nonacs | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Rishi R. Masalia* | LeafWorks Inc. | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Helen Winter Sung | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Meera Lee Sethi | University of Washington, Seattle | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Breck Duerkop* | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Mara McPartland, M.S.* | University of Minnesota | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Tyler Grambling | University of Tennessee | Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Emma Simmerman | Stanford University | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Alayna Mead | University of California, Los Angeles | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Marta A. Jarzyna | The Ohio State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Rebecca Morley | The Ohio State University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Aradhna Tripati* | UCLA | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Aaron Westmoreland | University of Colorado Boulder | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Rachael Bay | UC Davis | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Alexander Lalejini | Michigan State University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Stephanie Baumgart | University of Chicago | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Fritz Sedlazeck* | Baylor College of Medicine | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Daren Card | Harvard University | Biological and life sciences, Computer, information, and data sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| Gates Palissery | Virginia Tech | Biological and life sciences, Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Kasey Barton | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Nelson Hall | Stanford University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sonya Legg | Princeton University | Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Nathaniel Jue | California State University, Monterey Bay | Biological and life sciences | Academic faculty | |||
| Kimberly Hannula | Fort Lewis College | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Maribel Patiño | University of California, San Diego | Biological and life sciences | Graduate student | |||
| Jennifer Nemhauser | University of Washington | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Susan Tsang | American Museum of Natural History | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Research professional | |
| Katherine T. Charton | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Blaire Van Valkenburgh | UCLA | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Emily Conklin | University of Hawaiʻi | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Molly Matty | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoc | |
| Johanna Teske | Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Caitlin Fisher-Reid | Bridgewater State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Neha Prasad | University of California, San Francisco | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Andrea Quattrini | Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | ||
| Monica Mugnier | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Dr. Ethan P. White | University of Florida | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Mykle Hoban | Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Michael Brawner | Oregon State University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | 2016 NSF GRFP Awardee | |
| Sean Bruna | Western Washington University | Social, behavioral, and economic sciences | Academic staff/administrative | |||
| Elizabeth G. King | University of Georgia | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Abigail Descoteaux | Boston University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Gina D'Andrea-Penna | UC San Diego | neurosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Leon L Tran | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Michael Sullivan | Not on behalf of an organization | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Research professional | This is my personal support as a career government scientist and does no represent the position of the agency I work for. | |
| Casey terHorst | California State University, Northridge | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Mya Breitbart | University of South Florida | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Stephanie Lim | Stanford University | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sydney Smith | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Hannah Young | University of Utah | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Kerry J. Nickols | California State University Northridge | Geosciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Dr. Bryan Reiley* | Illinois Natural History Survey/University of Illinois-Urbana,Champaign | Biological and life sciences | Research professional | |||
| Vasiki Konneh | Colby College | Mathematical and physical sciences | ★ | Member of the public | ||
| Lani Gleason | California State University, Sacramento | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Caroline Daws | Stanford University | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sophia Lee | Drexel University | Engineering | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Sarah St. Pierrr | Stanford University | Engineering | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Dr. Lisa B. Whitenack | Allegheny College | Biological and life sciences, Geosciences | ★ | Academic faculty | ||
| Ege A. Yalcinbas | UC San Diego | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Jennifer Jaime | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | Graduate student | ||
| Regina S Baucom | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Academic faculty | |
| Karen Mancera | University of Georgia | Engineering | ★ | Undergraduate student | ||
| Kelsey Lucas | University of Michigan | Biological and life sciences | ★ | ★ | Postdoctoral fellow |