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Although he will not outline his specific plans for spending cuts within agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) until tomorrow's budget address. President Reagan has already said he will sharply reduce support for the "soft" social sciences, while making significant cuts in certain "hard" sciences...
...said he "is keenly concerned about proposed cuts in the NSF affecting the behavioral and social sciences." He also listed the loss of training grants from the National Institutes of Health, the elimination of funding for museums from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and reductions in aid to students as steps that will hurt Harvard...
Pruitt said surveys such as the General Social Survey, directed by James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology department, and funded by a $300,000 NSF grant, "is clearly in danger of disappearing...
...NSF Fellowships
...area of particular concern to researchers in both "hard" and "soft" sciences is the threatened loss of NSF fellowships for doctoral candidates. More than 150 GSAS students receive NSF fellowships, and the program has been placed near the top of Reagan's cut list. "We will seriously impede progress if we cannot train people in the labs," David M. Green, chairman of the Psychology and Social Relations Department said, adding that he expects to lose at least 30 per cent of the approximately $900,000 his department received this year from the NSF and the National Institutes of Health...