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Metascience
The "Metascience 101" Podcast Series
...on Fast Grants. In what ways did the research that Fast Grants catalyzed differ from what would have happened in traditional institutions? At some point, I’d like to talk about...
High-Skilled Immigration
Expelling Excellence: Exchange Visitor Restrictions on High-Skill Migrants in the United States
...is crucial for both the United States and the migrants’ countries of origin. Skilled migrants contribute significantly to economic growth and innovation in migrants’ home countries, via the creation of...
High-Skilled Immigration
Immigration Powers American Progress
...attractive destination in the world for migrants for such a long time that we have grown complacent about it. Even as productivity has slowed and the need for migrants has...
Metascience
Improving Graduate-Student Mentorship by Investing in Traineeship Grants
...areas of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. A report by the National Research Council found that doctoral students funded by NRSA grants (also known as T-32 Institutional Training Grants) outperformed...
Metascience
Piloting and Evaluating NSF Science Lottery Grants: A Roadmap to Improving Research Funding Efficiencies and Proposal Diversity
...116 hours grant-writing per NSF proposal (i.e., “grantsmanship”), corresponding to a staggering loss of nearly 45% of researcher time; the orientation of grantsmanship towards incremental research with the highest likelihood...
Metascience
How to Accelerate the American Scientific Enterprise
...suggest eliminating project-level grants. Rather, in addition to those grants, the government could expand four funding mechanisms: Investigator-based grants. These grants provide large-scale funding for top investigators, enabling exploration and...
High-Skilled Immigration
Most of America’s Top AI Companies Were Founded by Immigrants
...applications. 42 of the 2025 list were US-based companies, 25 of which were founded or cofounded by immigrants. For instance, OpenAI — creator of ChatGPT and other groundbreaking tools —...
Metascience
Heidi Williams Joins IFP as Director of Science Policy
We are very excited to announce that Heidi Williams is joining the Institute for Progress (IFP) as our Director of Science Policy. Heidi will be helping IFP develop and implement...
