{"id":2225807,"date":"2024-04-20T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-spend-over-2-million-to-diversify-marine-biology-climate-science\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:13:02","slug":"biden-admin-to-spend-over-2-million-to-diversify-marine-biology-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-spend-over-2-million-to-diversify-marine-biology-climate-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Allocates $2 Million for Marine Biology and Climate Science Diversity Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-to-spend-over-2-million-to-diversify-marine-biology-climate-science%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2225807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration&#8217;s National\u2064 Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $2 \u200dmillion in\u2064 taxpayer funds to diversify <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientific-conference-charging-white-scientists-for-entry-minorities-get-in-free\/\" title=\"Scientific Conference Charging White Scientists For Entry, Minorities Get In Free\">marine biology<\/a> and \u200dclimate science. The NSF is supporting four universities in this effort, aiming to improve equity in STEM education. George \u200dMason University is the largest recipient\u2063 of funding for a study focusing on racial \u200dequity in scientific fields, with \u200ca total of $1.2 million allocated.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s National Science Foundation (NSF) is dumping more than $2 million in taxpayer funds to back efforts aimed at diversifying marine biology and climate science, deriding the fields as \u201csome of the least diverse STEM disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/about\">NSF<\/a>, which controls $9.9 billion of federal money and exists to \u201cpromote the progress of science,\u201d \u201cadvance the national health,\u201d and \u201csecure the national defense,\u201d is backing four different universities engaged in the study aimed at diversifying the two scientific disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and workforce,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2314915_4900\">program description<\/a> reads. The study seeks to discover how to develop \u201cequity-driven and anti-racist educational collaborations, infrastructures, and pathways\u201d to implement in the scientific fields, with a specific focus on \u201cBIPOC storytelling and standpoint centering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are focused on advancing change in structures and sociocultural practices in MCS that can improve their racial equity outcomes,\u201d said Chrystal George Mwangi, an Associate Professor at George Mason University and the principal investigator behind the study. The three-year long study, which began in September of 2023 and will conclude in August of 2026,\u00a0seeks to build \u201ca replicable and scalable model for equity-centered support in STEM collaborations\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study claims that the climate and culture in marine and climate sciences \u201chave been identified as actively contributing to the low participation and retention of BIPOC individuals in the disciplines and their disparate academic and professional outcomes, through gatekeeping, professional barriers, and other obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Mason University in Virginia is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2314915_4900\">biggest recipient<\/a> of government funding for this effort and is slated to receive a whopping $1.2 million to back the DEI program. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania\u2019s Temple University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2314918_4900\">comes in second<\/a> and will receive $400,000, while the University of South Carolina will receive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2314917_4900\">another $375,000<\/a> from the NSF. Another $327,000 will be given to Salem State University in Massachusetts to fund the DEI effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s NSF is not content with only diversifying marine biology and climate science, however. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2237564_4900\">Another $323,000<\/a> will be allocated to Florida International University to \u201ctransform engineering classrooms towards racial equity,\u201d a project description explains. \u201cIn general, engineering professors are not engaging as active change agents for racial equity in their own classroom,\u201d the grant proposal bemoans, adding that the effort, which will include DEI training for professors, hopes to have a \u201csubstantial impact on the formation and professionalization of black, latinx, and indigenous engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-to-drop-1-million-to-study-latina-resistance-and-intra-minority-solidarity\">reported<\/a> that the Biden administration\u2019s NSF pledged to allocate nearly $500,000 to a study on \u201cLatina resistance\u201d at \u201cpredominantly white institutions\u201d as well as over $600,000 to back a study on \u201cintra minority solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSF is far from the only agency within the Biden administration that has embraced far-left ideologies on race and gender. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated to highly ideological DEI efforts as the Biden administration has worked to embed leftwing ideology throughout the government through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/06\/25\/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce\/\">executive orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire investigations found that the Department of Defense, for example, spent as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda\">$270 million<\/a> on DEI efforts over the course of three years while the State Department spent at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda\">$77 million<\/a> taxpayer dollars on DEI initiatives in 2022 and 2023. The Daily Wire also obtained a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees\">DEI glossary<\/a> from the NSA that included terms like \u201cwhite fragility,\u201d \u201cqueer theory,\u201d and \u201csettler colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation does not appear to be the only agency preoccupied with diversity in marine biology. The Daily Wire recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists\">revealed<\/a> that the Department of the Interior, tasked with the management and conservation of federal land, screened a documentary on queer representation in marine biology in honor of transgender day of visibility.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has pledged that he will gut the federal bureaucracy through executive orders of his own which aim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state\/\" title=\"Biden boosts bureaucrat protections, Trump vows to shrink government\">remove civil service protections<\/a> from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. \u201cWe will pass critical reforms making every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-we-must-make-every-executive-branch-employee-fireable-by-potus\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: We Must Make 'Every Executive Branch Employee Fireable' by POTUS\">executive branch employee fireable<\/a> by the President of the United States,\u201d Trump said at a rally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2022\/03\/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f\/363145\/\">touting<\/a> the plan. \u201cThe deep state must be brought to heel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden hopes to preempt this move and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state\">implemented a policy<\/a> intended to strengthen the civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats. Trump and his allies are still preparing to gut the bureaucracy, however, with the Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project2025.org\/\">Project 2025<\/a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $2 million in taxpayer funds to enhance diversity in marine biology and climate science, labeling these fields as among the least diverse STEM disciplines. 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