National Science Board member with longtime New Mexico ties speaks out on firing

By: Danielle Prokop

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: May 6, 2026

Words: 888

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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At the end of April, the Trump administration fired the entire National Science Board, which oversees the U.S. National Science Foundation and advises Congress and the president on issues of science and technology.

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One of the fired members, physicist Julia Phillips, spent 20 years at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, during which time she served as a manager of material sciences and oversaw …

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