Sentences with phrase «nsf officials»

NSF officials may not know the answer until Trump submits his full 2018 budget request to Congress in May.

Having processed proposals and interacted with other NSF officials for almost a year, Wolfe is familiar with problems, oversights, and common slip - ups applicants make when writing and preparing their proposals.

NSF officials say they do such «incurred cost» audits as needed, generally later in the process, because they are expensive and time - consuming.

The Senate bill would also leave it up to NSF officials to allocate those funds across the agency's six research directorates.

NSF officials say the additional construction money won't squeeze out existing research programs in biology.

Johnson has promoted the idea of converting Homestake, a former gold mine in his home state, into a multipurpose laboratory — as NSF officials had proposed as early as 2001 — and asked Chu whether DOE planned to keep moving forward on the project.

In the midst of a protracted fight with NSF officials over giving committee staff access to confidential supporting materials on a handful of specific grants that shows no signs of easing, Smith last fall inserted a watered - down version of those provisions into a draft of his reauthorization bill.

NSF officials «had to make their own decision,» Chu said in comments to reporters after the hearing.

NSF officials and Democrat legislators are hoping the bill will be tweaked by the Senate.

The IPA program is no panacea, NSF officials acknowledge.

In contrast, the House bill would add another step to the peer - review process by requiring NSF officials to certify that the grant to be awarded addresses an area of importance to the nation.

NSF officials told the IG that such generosity was essential to attract the best scientists.

But that rising volume of applications is threatening to sink an already overloaded staff, say NSF officials.

The biggest «savings» that Coburn identifies is actually a misreading of federal statutes, according to NSF officials.

Both bills would require NSF officials to explain why every grant they make is «in the national interest,» using seven criteria that range from «increased economic competitiveness» to «promotion of the progress of science.»

NSF officials are trying to increase fuel storage capacity and conserve energy in an effort to reduce the need for the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, a worsening logistical challenge given the aging fleet of U.S. icebreakers.

But NSF officials watched quietly from the sidelines as the project, short of funding, dropped to third place among ground - based projects in the 2010 survey.

Facing cost overruns and construction delays, NSF officials have decided to reduce the scope of the troubled National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON) and eliminate a major aquatic research component.

Yesterday, NSF officials settled the debate — for the moment — by announcing that the name won't change.

When the 2010 survey was conducted, the fiscal future was looking a lot brighter: NSF officials believed that the agency was on track for a 10 - year doubling of its total budget.

NSF officials, however, have made it clear that this award does not imply a future commitment.

Last week, NSF officials revealed that proposals to four geoscience grant programs dropped by 59 % after they eliminated deadlines in favor of anytime submissions, evaluated on a rolling basis.

NSF officials are expected to announce the winner on 1 June, but this week astrophysicist Steinn Sigurðsson reported the news on his blog, Dynamics of Cats.

NSF officials have also asked a Bethesda, Maryland, consultant to assess best practices within an existing NSF - funded program that pairs university researchers with local school districts.

But last Thursday's 292 - to - 126 vote against the bill (technically a motion to recommit H.R. 5116, after which Gordon withdrew the bill) raises two important questions: Were lobbyists and supportive lawmakers asleep at the switch, and did NSF officials bungle their response to an internal investigation of employees trafficking in computer - enabled pornography?

But it does offer NSF officials more breathing room to fund some major initiatives starting next year.

A House provision requiring NSF to spend $ 30 million on an initiative for institutions with large Hispanic enrollments was dropped; NSF officials say existing programs are already reaching that target population.

They have also agreed to give NSF officials a freer hand in deciding whether a research proposal benefits society.

The chairman of the congressional committee that has been monitoring NEON warned NSF officials today that it will hold their feet to the fire.

(NSF officials say that they can not comment on pending grants.)

NSF officials have now warned project managers that they must shape up or risk being replaced.

An advisory committee to NSF's biology directorate recently reaffirmed NEON's value to the community and told NSF officials that the project should not be further descoped.

NSF officials are certainly grateful that the Houston conservative rejected Trump's big proposed cuts to the agency.

And NSF officials would also have to find that money by taxing existing programs within the research account.

NSF officials asked her to stay on for a second year and during that time, her scope expanded to include integrated neural systems in addition to psychobiology.

NSF officials say the new reporting requirements are intended to eliminate such miscommunication, as well as help NSF better monitor its grantees.

Menczer says NSF officials warned him that attempting to defend himself could backfire.

Shortly after the June meeting, NSF officials approached Levine and other PoLS - SRN program directors and asked if they'd be interested in becoming a pilot program for their newly created Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) project.

Then on 1 December NEON Inc., the organization currently working on the project, «submitted a revised construction and operating plan that projected additional costs and a further delay of 2 years, according to NSF officials, which precipitated NSF's decision.»

«Nobody wants to be seen as being opposed to helping minority institutions,» says one NSF official.

Poland comes under Casandra Dudka's jurisdiction, an NSF official who may be able to offer you specific advice.

Not exact matches

In early December, according to the emails, BU officials asked NSF «to confirm» its view that Marchant couldn't continue as PI while he was on leave.

Clarke's first instinct was to contact an NSF program manager to ask how her Wastebook mention could affect her funding potential and whether she could contribute to an official response.

Olsen originally intended to use her NSF sabbatical to dive back into bench science and reacquaint herself with hands - on research, but officials at NSF had other ideas.

But NSF didn't forget Kathie Olsen, and a year and a half later, officials lured her back with the opportunity to start a new neuroscience grant program.

Now, having made its commitment to continue funding the observatory official, the NSF can move forward with negotiating a collaboration agreement and revealing who its partners will be.

After consulting with NEON officials and outside scientists, Olds says NSF «identified a descope option that will keep the project scientifically transformational and should bring it in on time and on budget.

At NSF, its 6.7 % increase, or $ 500 million, comes largely from mandatory spending — some $ 400 million that agency officials say will target young investigators launching their careers.

A second false assumption from the hearing would be that the gentle criticism of those provisions from two former NSF senior officials means only minor tweaks are needed to satisfy the scientific community.

But in a senate report accompanying a bill covering NSF's 2010 budget that was approved last Thursday, legislators have harsh words both for the administrative skills of those senior scientists and, more broadly, how the agency has responded to a 2008 report by its independent inspector general that found that senior officials were downloading and viewing pornography.