Apply today for the AIBS Diana Wall Graduate Student Publication Award. This annual award is granted to a graduate student (master’s or PhD candidate) who has served as the lead author of a peer-reviewed article published in BioScience during the preceding calendar year.

AIBS is now accepting applications for the 2027 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award, which recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who are demonstrating an interest and aptitude for working at the intersection of science and policy.

Read the latest Public Policy Report. AIBS urges NIH to keep reporting peer review scores, White House backs away from proposed NIH grant oversight board, and other news.

AIBS has sent a letter to the leadership of Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Board of Regents expressing concern over reports that the university may close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

AIBS has submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health opposing a proposal to stop reporting the numerical scores that peer review panels assign to grant applications.

Read the latest Public Policy Report. Trump seeks political oversight of NIH research grants, NSF outlines funding strategy aligned with White House priorities, and other news.

Read the latest Public Policy Report. Congress passes stopgap funding bill blocking OMB grants rule, White House releases National Security Science and Technology Strategy, and other news.

AIBS has joined 104 other national organizations in urging House Appropriations Committee leaders to prevent the Office of Management and Budget from implementing its proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance governing federal grants.

The Association of Ecosystem Research Centers (AERC) will hold a congressional briefing on September 17, 2026 on the Role of Ecosystem Research Centers in the Bioeconomy.

AIBS is partnering with the American Physical Society on NSF Forward, an initiative to develop recommendations and legislative proposals to strengthen and modernize the National Science Foundation ahead of the 120th Congress.

Read the latest Public Policy Report. NSF announces new funding opportunities, BIO to host virtual office hour, NIH seeks input on proposed changes to peer-review outcome reporting, and other news.