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Math Leaders Quash NSF Funding Scheme

Math Leaders Quash NSF Funding Scheme

Space Station, NSF Funds Approved

Space Station, NSF Funds Approved

Critical time for NSF, NASA funding bills

Although the new fiscal year does not start until October, the next few weeks will be critical in determining the amount of money which the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration receive. Scientists who want to communicate their views to key representatives and senators about these agencies should do so now.Every year Congress must pass new funding, or appropriations, legislation. Both NSF and NASA funding come under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees for the Veterans Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies. These two subcommittees have already heard from NSF officials, and will wrap‐up official NASA testimony this week. Several days of hearings from public witnesses are also scheduled.

NSF Funds Major Precollege Science Education Reform Program

It is the largest single financial effort in precollege science education reform since the post-Sputnik era of the late 1950s. That's how Luther S. Williams, the National Science Foundation's assistant director for education and human resources, describes $8.6 million in NSF grants to fund a new program that may drastically change the way science is taught. The U.S. Department of Education already has furnished $1.5 million in grants to pilot the program at state and local levels. Curricula for more than a million science students in five states will be affected by the scope, sequence, and coordination (SSC) program. If the pilot projects are successful, they could transform middle level and high school classes nationwide, NSF says. Students may have completely new science class schedules, with time spent in science courses increased as much as 50%. Six NSF grants, all three-year awards ranging from $1.3 million and $1.5 million, will go to the National Science ...

NSF Funding for Paleontology and Sedimentary Geology

NSF Funding for Paleontology and Sedimentary Geology

NSF funds new engineering research centers

NSF funds new engineering research centers

Possible cuts in NSF funds

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies, chaired by Barbara Mikulski (D‐MD), will mark up the Fiscal Year 1990 budget bill early in the week of September 11. Congressional staff members have told the Coalition for National Science Funding that cuts in the National Science Foundation budget, from House‐approved levels, are possible.The bill passed by the House allocates $1715 million for NSF research programs, an increase of $132 million or 8.3% above 1989 levels. After accounting for inflation the increase is about 4%. The House cut $88 million from the NSF budget request, which proposed a 14% increase as the next step in the already‐delayed doubling of NSF programs.

NSFs Shakhashiri Pushes for More NSF Funding, Time for Education

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, assistant director for science and engineering education at the National Science Foundation, is not shy about asking for what he wants. And what he wants for science education is more money and more time: 20% of NSF's budget and 10% of scientists' time. The twin problems of scientific illiteracy and a shrinking supply of new science professionals cannot be addressed adequately without both of those, he believes. Since coming to NSF five years ago from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he founded the Institute for Chemical Education, Shakhashiri has been relentless in pressing his case within the agency, the White House, and Congress for more funds for science education. He has just as consistently lobbied academic scientists to reserve more time from their research to devote to educational concerns. But the once seemingly tireless chemist now seems weary and frustrated at times. I feel for the most part satisfied in what ...

NSF scientific and funding priorities in Earth sciences

The Earth Science Division (EAR) of the National Science Foundation provides about two‐thirds of the funding for basic geological scientific research at academic institutions in the United States. This funding is provided through three budget units: Earth Science Project Support, which funds individual researchers; Instrumentation and Facilities, for the support of research equipment for individual investigators and larger facilities for shared use; and Continental Lithosphere, for the support of large multidisciplinary and multiinstitutional studies of the continental lithosphere.The latter two programs, established in 1984, open opportunities for new styles of research not previously available through the programs for individual investigators. From 1980 to 1988, the EAR budget increased from $25.98 million to $51.29 million, allowing the number of awards per year during that period to double. Over the same period, applications more than doubled, leading to a decline in the success rate from over 40% to less than 30%. Similarly, average award size increased but at a rate less than inflation. Congressional appropriations for EAR have been significantly less than the amounts requested in the President's budget r8—Hi‐⅞ for NSF in the last 4 fiscal years, thus stalling the ability of the division to increase both the success rate and the amounts of individual grants and to move forward with a fully diversified research agenda. In 1986 the Advisory Committee for Earth Sciences (ACES), the official external advisor to the EAR scientific staff, reexamined this diversified agenda and began to develop a set of long‐range scientific and fiscal priorities.

NSF Funding Trends in Response to the Eruption of Mount St. Helens

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of AmericaVolume 69, Issue 1 p. 18-20 CommentaryFree Access NSF Funding Trends in Response to the Eruption of Mount St. Helens First published: 01 March 1988 https://doi.org/10.2307/20166635AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume69, Issue1March 1988Pages 18-20 RelatedInformation

Report on the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting

122ASSOCIATION OF PACIFIC COAST GEOGRAPHERS REPORT ON THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Davis, California September 9-12, 1987 According to figures compiled by ourselves and by outgoing President Lay Gibson, the 50th annualmeeting ofthe APCG, held atthe University ofCalifornia, Davis, September 9-12, 1987, had just under the all-time record for number of registrants, set at Los Angeles in 1985 (171 vs. 173), and well ahead of any other previous APCG meeting. A considerable number of nonregistrants also were in evidence. Fifty-seven people presented papers in 15 sessions, coming from Canada and Australia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio, as well as from all the APCG states. There were five other major talks, a discussion on women in geography, and a workshop on National Science Foundation funding. The Central Valley climate cooperated to provide pleasantly warm days and cool nights; the UCD Housing Office offered an opportunity for participants to relive their dormitory days; and Food Services catered to the Inner Man and Woman. Three alternative field trips were available on Thursday, the 10th. UCD's Debbie Elliott-Fisk and CSU Hayward's Don Holtgrieve led a group to the Napa Valley, where the viticultural landscape was viewed in its physical-geographic context; field testing ofthe product ofthe grape was part ofthe experience. UCD's Dennis Dingemans (Local Arrangements Chairman), herded a busload plus a vanload around rural and small-town Yolo County, taking in organic and other farms, historic buidings, and the like; unfortunately, time did not permit the projected pause at the Rainbow Worm Farm. Robin Datei (UCD) and CSU Sacramento's Tim Hallinan regaled a vanfull ofgeographers with both the grit and the glitter of central city Sacramento, from the Port, where beet-pulp pellets are exported, to the Holy Myrrh Bearing Women [Russian] Orthodox Church in America. Saturday morning, Dennis Dingemans and Steve Jett led an intime walking and driving tour of Davis. A 52-page Field Excursions Guidebook was issued to all registrants. Afterregistration andaninformalreception Wednesday afternoon anddinner on the town, the on-campus program began with the Opening Session, emceed by ProgramChairman SteveJett. ViceChancellorforUniversityRelationsLawrence Shepard gave the official welcome, followed by presentations on the "Central Valley and American Agriculture" by Dennis Dingemans, Howard Gregor, and Steering Committee Chairman Marlyn Shelton. YEARBOOK · VOLUME 50 · 1988123 The first halfofThursday morning and most ofFriday were devoted to paper sessions-onurban/economic/socialgeography, cultural andhistorical geography, agricultural andresource geography, geomorphology, climate and water, hazards, andenvironmental andecological geography. Two special sessions may be noted: atwo-partconclaveentitled "Looking atWomen," organizedbyMargaretTrussell (CSU Chico), and an exceptionally impressive session put together by students of UC Berkeley's Jim Parsons, on environmental exploitation in the history of the American West. A 16-page booklet ofabstracts ofpapers was edited by Steve Jett. Thursday evening's climax was an outdoor barbecue at Putah Creek Lodge, enlivened by a local "do-wah" quintet called "Full House." A more serious-but still convivial-atmosphere characterized Friday's Awards Luncheon; UCD Dean of Letters and Science Leon Mayhew made opening remarks, followed by a particularly cogent talk by the National Science Foundation's Ron Abler, on present and future NSF funding for geographical research. Friday afternoon saw open houses at the homes ofUCD faculty members Steve Jett, Dennis Dingemans and Robin Datei, and UCD alumna Patti Johnson. The evening was topped offby the Banquet, attractively laid out at the Faculty Club and highlighted by a lively Presidential Address, "Restructuring the Landscape" (in two Arizona towns) by Lay Gibson. APCG Vice President Bill Loy announced that UCD's Howard Gregor and CSU Chico's Dave Lantis were being given awards for distinguished service to the Association, and that the President's Award for the best graduatestudent paper presented would go to Teresa Bulman ofUCD, who had discussed the human role in the fortunes ofeucalypts in California. Finally, Sonoma State's Bill Crowley read the traditionally humorous Resolution of Appreciation (coauthored by wags Larry Ford and Carl Johannessen). Some excerpts: WHEREAS the Department of Geography at the University of California, Davis, has willingly invited, smoothly organized, and graciously hosted the 1987 meetings of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, and WHEREAS MeetingChairMarlynShelton,ProgramChairStephen Jett, and Local Arrangements Chair Dennis...

NIH Chemistry Funding Losing Ground Relative to Other Disciplines

Although the National Institutes of Health has long been a major funding source for chemical research, the exact amount of chemistry funding has been difficult to determine because NIH doesn't break out research funding figures by disciplines. However, a recently conducted analysis of NIH's fiscal 1986 budget reveals a chemistry research funding total of almost $140 million, according to Jerome G. Green, director of NIH's division of research grants. Green spoke at a symposium on issues in funding of chemical research and education, sponsored by the Division of Chemical Education. The chemistry research funding amounted to 2.7% of NIH's total $5.3 billion budget, Green says. In comparison, the National Science Foundation's chemistry division provided a total of $85.8 million in fiscal 1986, whereas all NSF funding for programs involving at least some chemical research totaled $198 million. According to Green, the $140 million in NIH chemistry funding includes $135 million for 1153 research grants, $2.6 ...

NSF Funding for Chemical Research in Serious Trouble

A special committee set up by the National Science Foundation this year has reported that funding for chemistry research is in deep trouble. Although the study was undertaken originally to look at problems specific to organic chemistry, it soon became obvious that all branches of the science face serious problems. The panel was cochaired by Clayton H. Heathcock and Robert G. Bergman, both professors of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Nine other chemistry professors from several areas served on the panel as well. The tenor of the report is that NSF support for academic basic chemical research, despite agency funding increases, is stagnant, and that this is having far-reaching effects, especially on the development of future chemists. According to Edward F. Hayes, director of NSF's chemistry division, the organic chemistry community's concern began last year. The division was considering a reorganization and, through accident and coincidence, representation for organic chemistry on its ...

FY 1986 research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency created the by National Science Foundation Act of 1950. Its aim is to promote and advance scientific progress in the United States. The idea of such a foundation was an outgrowth of the important contributions made by science and technology during World War II. From those first days, NSF has had a unique place in the federal government: It is responsible for the overall health of science across all disciplines. In contrast, other agencies support research focused on specific missions. NSF funds research in all fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants and contracts to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and other research institutions in all parts of the United States. The Foundation accounts for about 28 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research. NSF receives more than 27,000 proposals each year for research and graduate fellowships and makes more than 12,000 awards. These go to universities, colleges, academic consortia, nonprofit institutions, and small businesses. The agency operates no laboratories itself but does support National Research Centers, certain oceanographic vessels, and Antarctic research stations. The Foundation also aids cooperative research between universities and industry and U.S. participation in international scientific efforts. NSF is structured much like a university, with grant-making divisions for the various disciplines and fields of science and engineering. The Foundation's staff is helped by advisors, primarily from the scientific community, who serve on formal committees or as ad hoc reviewers of research proposals. This advisory system, which focusses on both program direction and specific proposals, involves more than 50,000 scientists and engineers a year, NSF staff members who are experts in a certain field or area make final award decisions; applicants get verbatim unsigned copies of peer reviews and can appeal those decisions. The Knowledge and Database Systems Program of the NSF consists of the following five subject areas: 1. Knowledge Engineering; 2. Formal Models; 3. Compiled Knowledge Systems; 4. Natural Language Systems; 5. Cognitive Systems. For each of these areas a listing of concise project descriptions is given for Fiscal Year 1986.

NSF funding improving for manufacturing research

Speech has been hailed as unique to human evolution. Although the inventory of distinct sounds producible with vocal tract articulators is a great advantage in human oral communication, it is argued here that the larynx as a sound source in speech is limited in its range and capability because a low fundamental frequency is ideal for phonemic intelligibility and source-filter independence.Four existing data sets were combined to make an argument regarding exclusive use of the larynx for speech: (1) range of fundamental frequency, (2) laryngeal muscle activation, (3) vocal fold length in relation to sarcomere length of the major laryngeal muscles, and (4) vocal fold morphological development.Limited data support the notion that speech tends to produce a contracture of the larynx. The morphological design of the human vocal folds, like that of primates and other mammals, appears to be optimized for vocal communication over distances for which higher fundamental frequency, higher intensity, and fewer unvoiced segments are used.The positive message is that raising one's voice to call, shout, or sing, or executing pitch glides to stretch the vocal folds, can counteract this trend toward a contracted state.

NSF Funds Center for Optical Circuitry Research

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NSF funds Einstein papers to cover Swiss years

NSF funds Einstein papers to cover Swiss years

NSF Funding: The Whole Picture?

Journal Article NSF Funding: The Whole Picture? Get access Glenn D. Prestwich Glenn D. Prestwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 29, Issue 4, Winter 1983, Page 2, https://doi.org/10.1093/besa/29.4.2 Published: 01 December 1983

NSF Funding Trends in Mammalian Research

NSF Funding Trends in Mammalian Research

NSF funds two math institutes

NSF funds two math institutes