Sentences with phrase «nsf award»

The authors would like to acknowledge the following grants and institutions: SM, KF, and KH: National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)-- US National Science Foundation (NSF) award DBI - 1052875; JR: The Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES); GRA: Laboratory Directed Research and Development award by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managed by the Battelle Memorial Institute for the US Department of Energy; MAC: Office of Naval Research, research grant MURI N00014 -12-1-0911; FMW: NSF award CBET - 1541642; VMY: The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

This work is supported through NSF Award No. 1049219, Investigation of Decadal Climate Predictability and Hydroclimate impacts (IDCPI) on the Western US.

NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI -1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Terrence Sejnowski, along with collaborators from the California Institute of Technology, also received a $ 1 million NSF award.

This may result in the need to rebudget an existing NSF award.

The NSF award will fund the center for five years.

«If you find [a veteran] that you would like for your group and you have an NSF award [from MPS], you should have no reservations about recruiting this person to your campus,» says NSF program director Charles Pibel.

«The NSF award is a key development in our vision for TMT,» said Henry Yang, chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and chair of the TMT Collaborative Board, in a press statement.

It proposes adding two new components to the «terms and conditions» that universities and other institutions agree to follow when they accept an NSF award.

Silver points to Coburn's criticism of several NSF awards in the social sciences as a prime example.

To be precise, Smith put a 2010 NSF grant to Bushman for research on self - control of aggression on a list of 11 NSF awards that Smith regards as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

* Clarification, 19 March, 10:58 a.m.: A statement about why it will take 5 years for all NSF awards to be covered by the policy has been clarified.

NSF awards a new 3 - year research grant to Mihaela Pertea for her work on transcriptome reconstruction.

NSF awards a coordination grant to Kansas State University (with Marzolf as PI).

Not exact matches

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Bennington College nearly $ 90,000 for a Rapid Response grant to support a new course and conduct original research on the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination recently discovered in Hoosick Falls, NY, and North Bennington, VT..

Packard was a recipient of a NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

This would result in 800 fewer new research grant awards than the 8,800 total for FY 2016, according to NSF figures.

The AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project was awarded a two - year grant of $ 199,876 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF, Award No: 1439549) as a part of a collaborative research grant with the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institution.

AAAS provided 42 reviews for proposals submitted to the Nebraska EPSCoR Faculty FIRST Awards initiative, which is designed to help early career faculty initiate their research programs and compete more effectively for NSF CAREER grants.

«We hope that one outcome of the workshop will be the forging of ongoing partnerships to help develop a roadmap to establishing a common language and framework for continued dialogue to move this effort of promoting multi-sensory data science forward,» says Rickman, who is Principal Investigator on an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, awarded by the Division of the Materials Research in support of the workshop.

In 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Menczer, the director of IU's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a 4 - year, $ 920,000 grant to study how so - called memes — ideas, issues, and events — are spread across the Internet.

He is a recipient of a 2011 NSF CAREER Award and 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

NSF's Duncan McBride says the agency likely won't hold a competition until next fall and will make its first round of new awards in the summer of 2006.

The pool of eligible institutions?those that normally qualify for NSF grants?remains the same under the new program, with community colleges receiving about 40 % of the awards.

Although smaller, NSF works the same way as NIH; NSF expects to make about 10,400 competitive awards in FY 2008, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Cossairt started thinking about the idea when applying for his National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics Table 1, Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2000 Arlington, VA (NSF 02 - 305)

NSF's emerging plans aside, the stimulus package awards one - time bonanzas that must be spent in 2 years.

This growth in training opportunities is largely a result of NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, which awards $ 3 million grants to about 20 interdisciplinary training initiatives each year.

He also attacked the peer review process the NSF used to award grants, saying it was too secretive and «incestuous,» which was leading to funding irrelevant projects.

After scientific organizations complained that earlier versions of the COMPETES reauthorization would have forced NSF to follow congressionally written rules for making awards, Smith added language to the current bills that says «nothing in this section shall be constructed as altering the Foundation's [two criteria] for evaluating grant applications.»

Former NSF director Arden Bement, who launched EAGER in 2009, urged program officers to make many more EAGER awards, up to 5 % of their total budgets.

DDEP grants support doctoral research overseas and proposals for these awards, submitted officially by the doctoral student's faculty advisor, can be sent in to NSF at any time.

The NSF ADVANCE award is another such program, more limited in scope.

That approach has lifted him to the top of his profession — election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2011, and, just last month, winner of the highest honor bestowed by the NSF for a lifetime of public service, the Vannevar Bush Award.

Discovery Corps and Other Transition Awards 8 July 2005 The GrantDoctor describes NSF's chemistry - based Discovery Corps program, which may be the only fellowship extant that is intended to help scientists make a transition away from the bench.

It's «an unprecedented — and some say bizarre — intrusion into the much admired process that NSF has used for more than 60 years to award research grants,» wrote Jeffrey Mervis Thursday at ScienceInsider.

The new bill repackages Section 106 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), which would require NSF to tell the public why every award is «in the national interest.»

Although 10 schools were awarded NSF - AIRE grants, Colby and Grinnell College in Iowa are the only ones that used some of the money to fund postdocs.

Coincidentally, later this month NSF hopes to name its first six «distinguished teaching scholars,» a new 4 - year, $ 300,000 award that, unlike the Hughes professors, is open to faculty across all institutions and all fields of science and engineering funded by NSF.

The new spending bill modifies that language but reminds NSF that its abstracts describing each award must «articulate how the project serves the national interest.»

Moving up the academic ladder, NSF figures analyzed by the RAND Corp. show that the number of doctoral degrees in science, engineering, and health awarded to U.S. citizens has risen by 22 % over the same 2 decades, including an 11 % rise over the past 10 years.

Kinzig's scientific career also seems to be benefiting from the Washington experience: She was awarded the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership fellowship for communicating environmental science more effectively to policy - makers, and she is helping to organize an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation (NSF) meeting.

Nyhus is one of four postdocs hired on a National Science Foundation Awards for the Integration of Research and Education (NSF - AIRE) grant awarded to the school to enhance its undergraduate curriculum by integrating research into teaching.

The panel also criticizes how NSF monitors large awards, especially to first - time grantees, and directs the agency to draw up a plan to look more closely at the entire process, from before an award is made through its completion.

«I don't believe NSF has ever published information about an award before it was made,» he said.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced yesterday that it has awarded grants totaling $ 12.3 million to help universities hook up to the very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS).

NSF expects to award about 10 individual and 10 institutional awards.

In 2010, Li received a Young Investigator Award from the AFOSR, and in 2008 received an NSF Career Award.