Science is reporting today that NSF's Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, has announced his resignation.
While he gave no reason for his sudden departure, "...orders from the White House to accept a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1700-person staff may have been the final straws in a series of directives Panchanathan felt he could no longer obey."
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