Sentences with phrase «nsf support»

I have been fortunate to have had previous NSF support for my work, but a CAREER award is special because in addition to the project aspects, it focuses on one's advisory capacity,» Grotzer said.

NCES and NSF support research studies that utilize IPEDS data to improve «policies, theories, and practice in higher education» (AIR, n.d.).

All of the 2017 - 2018 MPS distinguished lecturers have received NSF support allowing them to pursue cutting - edge research in fields ranging from the interaction of matter in the quantum realm to how chemistry works in space.

Read here about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support.

NSF support for astronomy and astrophysics has not shared proportionately in the budget increases of the NSF as a whole (Figure 6.1).

Similarly, any publication of material based upon or developed at NSO, other than scientific articles or papers published in refereed journals, must contain an acknowledgment of NSF support and disclaimer in the following terms:

NSF support can be continued for an additional five years; following that period the center is expected to become self - supporting.

Much of this «bee team» was made up of Emory undergraduate students, funded by the college's Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) grants and NSF support via the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

NSF support helps astronomers make fundamental discoveries about the universe — from new exoplanets to the origins of galaxies — to provide vital training for next - generation researchers.

Even though the funds are not enough to compensate for waning NSF support, the partnerships point to a model for the agency's endangered telescopes.

Because NSF supports postdocs at a number of different salary levels, that discrepancy may reflect either a slightly different mix of positions, or raises for employees of some fortunate PIs.

Although scientists from every field that NSF supports are eligible, only three social scientists — the previous two were men — have ever captured the Waterman, named after NSF's first director.

NSF supported Frank's imaging research beginning in 1984.

That's the case for nearly 90 % of the 39,000 graduate students whom NSF supports each year and for about two - thirds of those getting money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

... I believe this work is the responsibility of scientists in America's colleges and universities which the NSF supports.»

Third, NSF supports the technology development that will enable the detection of planets as small as the Earth.

The University Grants program of the NSF supports investigator - initiated basic research that covers all of astronomy and astrophysics.

Not exact matches

In this case, the computation mining initiatives took up approximately $ 150,000 worth of NSF - supported computer use at the two educational facilities.

To support this rapid growth, NSF International provides auditing and certification services to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)- benchmarked standards such as SQF, BRC, IFS and FSSC 22000.

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..

AAAS implemented the MWIRC program, with support and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the goal to foster participation of U.S. female scientists and engineers in international science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education collaborations, particularly female STEM faculty from underrepresented minority groups and with physical disabilities.

NSF also issued a series of new funding opportunities to support transformative research (see box).

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

DOD, Interior, and Transportation would reduce their support of academic R&D, while NASA, NSF, NIH, and DOE would keep their funding of academic R&D ahead of the rate of inflation.

NSF will continue to support critical cyberinfrastructure resources to ensure the Nation maintains its leadership position in this vital area.

As a fellow, he works on Big Data policies and programs, participates in a coordination and leadership group on cyberinfrastructure investments, and works to advance the data - intensive science and high performance computing communities supported by NSF and other Federal agencies.

«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.

Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

Shanley's early guidance, background knowledge and letter of support helped strengthen their NSF proposal to create the series.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

NSF can support American researchers, but supporting foreign science falls outside their charter.

Working for a government agency like NSF, Olsen says, gives you the chance to influence science: establishing activities and / or programs to support emerging new areas or underrepresented groups.

This work was supported by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science under the auspices of the project «Convergent Science and Technology for Measurements at the Nanoscale» (15011053), grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (2014-023563, NRF -2008-0061906, NRF - 2013R1A1A1076141, NRF - 2012M3C1A1048861, 2011-0017605, BSR - 2012R1A2A2A01045496 and NMTD - 2012M3A7B4049888) funded by the Korea government (MSIP), a grant (2011-0031630) from the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics through the Global Frontier Research Program of MSIP, the Priority Research Center Program (2012-0005859), a grant (2011-0030786) from the Center for Topological Matters at POSTECH, the NSF (DMR - 1122594), AFOSR (FA95550 -09-0705), ONR (N00014 -13-1-0662), Army Research Office (ARO) grant W911NF -13-1-0471 and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2013.

Because legislation ultimately affects the regulations and policies that scientists must follow, as well as the amount of funding available to scientists through support of the science agencies such as NIH, NSF, DOE, and NASA, Olsen says, «it is so critical to have a person in those offices who has a strong science background.

He has expressed support for doubling the NSF budget.

On the bright side, total funding for postdocs, both stipend fellows and grant employees, rises 4.9 %, but the number of NSF - supported postdocs is simultaneously slated to fall slightly, from an estimated 6240 in 2004 to an estimated 6080 in 2005.

was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study different phenomena in social media.

The report had recommended that NSF lean on Antarctic scientists to keep a sharper eye on the costs of instrumentation deployment and operation support by considering those costs in the review and selection of science projects.

«Part of our mandate, through the support of the NSF, is to reveal the complex structure of sign language, and in so doing, disabuse the public of this notion.»

NSF, through the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), funds the activities of and logistically supports AP3, which conducted expeditions to Antarctica in 2009, 2011 and 2016.

-» [M] ost Federal government support for new basic research» stopped during the shutdown «due to furloughs of 98 percent of NSF employees, nearly three quarters of the NIH [National Institutes of Health], and two thirds of the CDC.»

NSF to Seek Increase in Postdoc Salaries 20 June 2003 NSF - supported postdocs may get bigger paychecks starting in federal fiscal year 2005.

Angel White, who finished her Ph.D. in Letelier's lab last year and is now a postdoc, landed a NASA earth science fellowship but decided not to renew because, she calculated, it was best to keep working on marine - science projects supported by NSF instead of NASA - funded research on remote - sensing tools.

NSF provides state - of - the - art imaging tools to academic labs; supports efforts to develop new microscopy techniques; and funds training for young scientists and engineers in the field.

«This exciting research, supported by the National Science Foundation, represents a seminal advance in the field of molecular machines,» said Eugene Zubarev, a program director at the NSF.

NSF will continue to support researchers as they explore new ways to record ever - sharper images of minute matter.

NSF isn't saying much, but the move «appears to reflect an impasse between NSF's desire to preserve its highly regarded peer - review system and the need to abide by language in a government - wide funding bill that restricts NSF's ability to support research in the discipline,» Mervis writes.

(It should be noted that Price made those comments during a debate over an amendment, which he supported, that would have defunded a handful of NSF projects targeted as wasteful or unnecessary by GOP lawmakers; the hit list included grants to study bison hunting on the late prehistoric Great Plains and the sexual politics of waste in Dakar.)

The NSF proposal would also retool the agency's traineeship grants, which go to universities to support training in critical areas.