Sentences with phrase «when nsf»

When the NSF - OIG completes an investigation and writes a report, they make a recommendation to the NSF administration, but it's the deputy director who makes the decision whether to declare a «finding» of research misconduct.

He applied for the job, and when NSF made him an offer, the couple moved to Washington, D.C..

And that's when NSF will need to have a better grasp of what it will take to operate the observatory, says Maria Zuber, chair of NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, which this week signed off on the additional spending.

«When NSF program officers have an idea or when their PIs come to them with something to communicate, they can use this resource to get a better idea of what to do and who to talk to at NSF to make it happen.»

But the mandate expanded dramatically when NSF became the implementing agency for the U.S. - Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation, set up by President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda in 1961 as part of efforts to restore an intellectual dialogue between the two countries.

Keeling says that he received around $ 700,000 annually for the CO2 program through paired support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) until three years ago, when the NSF halted funding.

The partnership began when NSF approved a grant proposal AAAS submitted.

Not exact matches

Overdraft fees are incurred when a bank accepts a charge on your account that is larger than your remaining available balance; if the bank chooses to refuse the charge instead, you will be billed an NSF fee.

Non-sufficient funds (NSF) and unsuccessful payment fee: These fees are assessed if a loan payment is unsuccessful — this normally happens when the borrower's bank account does not have enough money to cover the amount that is being withdrawn.

It's important to note that when lenders calculate an APR, they assume borrowers make payments on time and in full, meaning late payment, NSF or similar fees are not included in an APR..

When I was a professor at SUNY I had almost a quarter of a million in NSF grants.

«It sounded to me, when talking to France, that this might be a change in NSF's attitude,» McNutt says.

And it would not require universities to tell NSF when they launch investigations into allegations of harassment.

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.

Lyons returned to NSF, and when, soon after, the person in charge of the sub-Saharan program retired, Lyons was ready and willing to step in.

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

A «Data Brief» issued last month by NSF included 2002 data on enrollment in science graduate degree programs, data that, presumably, were not available to NSB when it issued Indicators, 2004.

That's a big improvement over 1975, when only 29 % of degree recipients in these fields were women (NSF, 1999).

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

Republicans control both houses of Congress, but they don't speak with one voice when it comes to funding research at the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and other agencies.

Gawalt reacted «with disbelief» when the question appeared on the Census Bureau's hit list, he says, adding that he finds it «ironic» that the bureau actually carries out the survey of college graduates on behalf of NSF.

An amendment to the 2013 spending bill passed in March limits NSF's political science funding to cases «when a project is deemed vital to national security or the country's economic interests.»

For starters, 23 % of the schools with NSF research funds had no RCR training plan in place when OIG first contacted them.

Unfortunately, when a Senate spending panel took up the bill earlier this week, it embraced the president's proposal — a 1.1 % increase — instead of the level the House approved, which would give NSF 3.2 % more money to spend than it had the previous year.

I was intrigued when I read an article in Science magazine about science assistants at the National Science Foundation (NSF), «On - the - Job Training Slots Open Doors, Lighten Load» by Jeffrey Mervis.

The NSF is comfortable giving money to researchers in large universities, but they get wary when you tell them your office is in a commercial strip center between a balloon shop and a day - care center for the developmentally disabled.

McCormick: I worked at NSF as an undergrad when I was in the «Stay in School Program».

Even when its backbone was owned and run by the NSF, the Internet could never be said to have a single owner.

The environmental study was completed earlier this year and NSF was due to announce its chosen future for Arecibo when Hurricane Maria struck on 20 September.

So it was yesterday, when the research panel of the U.S. House of Representatives science committee held its first public airing of a bill that would make some controversial changes to peer review at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The need for prohibitory language, which does not mention NSF by name, was never brought up during any of the committee's 48 hearings on the legislation, nor was it proposed when the committee waded through 50 amendments before voting out the bill on 28 April.

On Tuesday at ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis reported that «Representative Bill Foster (D — IL) surprised some of his colleagues last week when he proposed killing a long - running program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) intended to lift up states at the bottom of the research funding heap.

Wagener had years to develop his training modules while at Dow, but when he left the world of the large corporation, he didn't think he'd use these tools again — that is, until he met Katherine Covert, a program officer for educational grants at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

That's only a slight improvement over 2000, when the numbers were 6 % and 10 % respectively, according to NSF statistics.

• When Justin Esarey, an assistant professor of political science at Rice University in Houston, Texas, applied for an NSF grant, he was careful to follow a directive from Congress «that any awards made by NSF's division of political science must foster national security or economic development,» wrote Mervis on ScienceInsider.

► Particle physicists got some good news last Friday when the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that, instead of choosing between two competing projects, they would try to fund them both.

When it comes to the number of supercomputing centers it wants to support, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that less is more.

Anja Strømme knows this system all too well: She was working at SRI International when she was asked to help NSF clear a backlog of grant applications.

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.

That hearing, for example, ended with a request from its chair, Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA), for additional materials that will help him argue for a larger NSF budget when the spending bill goes to the House floor.

NSF took a bold step in opening the Tokyo office in October 1960 when the agency was just 10 years old and had a budget of $ 150 million.

That cost sharing is based on the idea that an institution benefits from having a faculty member temporarily at NSF, both because of the added prestige and the knowledge and connections they bring when they return.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

When he finished his PhD, Cary applied for and received an NSF post-doctoral fellowship with Giovannoni in mind.

In 1980, when Congress initiated the Science and Equal Opportunities Act, CEOSE was established to advise NSF on policies and programs that would encourage the participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, and mathematics.

With the support of a few volunteers at the time that Neil died, Cameron took on the challenge of creating what NSF says was a vision of «a time when technology would allow people who just happened to be in wheelchairs to have the same choices, opportunities, and quality of life as any other person.»

The NSF's observers have only limited powers when it comes to controlling intransigent visitors.

Interestingly, an NSF - funded study also found that the Earth is bombarded by high speeds of solar energy during even quiet phases, called the solar minimum, when sunspots are fewer or have disappeared.

But the judges disagreed, concluding that when operating the «global commons» of Antarctica the NSF must obey US law.

Our recommendation: At NSF, include the new and risky directions in your proposal and when unexpected opportunities arise, call your program officer.