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National Science Foundation: Second Merit Review Criterion Summary
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In the early twenty-first century, science finds itself caught in a dilemma that is arguably of its own making: Its very success in terms of understanding and controlling nature means that it has given birth to powers that transcend the traditional...
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National Science Foundation Summary
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is a federal independent (non-cabinet) agency, established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended, and related legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the president....
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an...


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National Science Foundation Agrees to Move to Arlington
01/09/1993: 927 words, approx. 3 pages
The National Science Foundation, confronted by an extraordinary alliance involving Congress and top members of the Bush and Clinton administrations, yesterday gave up a two-year battle and agreed to move across the Potomac River to newly constructed headquarters in Arlington. NSF officials signed...
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Atlantic Economic Journal
National Science Foundation funding in economics and chemistry.
06/01/1992: 1,222 words, approx. 4 pages
Budget cuts facing many universities have motivated administrators to seek outside sources of funding. As a result, many departments are experiencing increasing pressure to obtain outside grants. Pressure may be particularly severe for social science departments that are housed in colleges of arts...
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Illinois to get fastest supercomputer
8/9/2007: 675 words, approx. 2 pages
By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.The National Science Board on Wednesday gave the National Science Foundation the OK to spend $208 million to build the computer at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana....
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Univ. of Wash. gets $2.2M to study ocean
5/17/2007: 323 words, approx. 1 pages
The University of Washington has received $2.2 million to plan an ambitious underwater research facility to study the ocean floor off the coast of Washington and Oregon.Scientists say it will be the world's first ocean observatory to span a tectonic plate, a huge section of...
 


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