Abstract
For the past 15 years the same four criteria, with some additions now and then, have been used to evaluate all the funding proposals received by the National Science Foundation. That may be about to change. The four criteria may be reduced to two: What is the intellectual merit and quality of the proposed activity? What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? NSF Director Neal F. Lane disclosed the two criteria, developed by a joint NSF-National Science Board task force, at a press conference last week. He was joined by the two NSB members who served on the task force: Shirley M. Malcom, head of the Directorate for Education & Human Resources Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and by telephone from Boulder, Colo., Warren M. Washington, panel chairman and a senior scientist in the Climate & Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Lane was ...
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