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... we need to know about structurally deficient U.S. bridges Bridges on the Brink? The tragedy of the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110059 Nanotube Flickering Reveals Single-Molecule Rendezvous
... week's issue of the journal Science, French and U.S. researchers describe a new technique that ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110033 X-ray Images Help Explain Limits to Insect Body Size
... Argonne National Laboratory Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110026 New Aerogels Could Clean Contaminated Water, Purify Hydrogen for Fuel Cells
... Argonne National Laboratory Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109931 Education
... supporting the very best ideas and students in U.S. science, engineering and mathematics are ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108334 Advanced Technological Education Program Brings Two-Year Colleges and Industry Together to Educate New Workforce
... with two-year colleges on efforts to maintain U.S. lead in competitive technological marketplace ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108192 Newly Discovered Genes, Brain Chemicals Likely Play a Role in Complex Bee Behavior
... Behavior Using a new combination of techniques, U.S. and European scientists have identified 36 ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108148 President Honors Excellence in Mentoring
... Dhir's program brings minority students from the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico to participate in a ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104634 July 2005 - Austrian publication highlights NSF support of international activities
... of OISE: "International Activities and the U.S. National Science Foundation". 104313 rgaul OISE ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104311 Wiring the Brain at the Nanoscale
... as conduits to guide the wires--a team of U.S. and Japanese researchers has demonstrated a technique ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104288 Grasshopper Takes to the Trees on Prairie Research Site
... stretches as far as the eye can see across the U.S. Great Plains, and more than 100 species of ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104255 Statement by Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, On The Death of the Rev. John Coleman
... Coleman On behalf of the men and women of the U.S. Antarctic Program, I would like to express our ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104167 Ireland Joins International Marine Research Program
... head of the marine geosciences section at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). "We welcome ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104099 NSF Announces Intent to Establish Two New Science and Technology Centers
... Apr 11, 2005 1 University of Kansas and U.C. Berkeley play lead roles NSF Announces Intent to ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103178 Climate Projection for the 21st Century: Earth Will Warm by 3 Degrees
... Celsius) while wintertime precipitation over the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains could rise by 40% ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102995 First Estimates Developed of Lightning-Associated "Sprites"
... by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Air Force, and NASA.Sprites accompany roughly one ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102985 Mathematical Sciences
... Foundation (NSF) is the primary supporter of U.S. academic research in the mathematical sciences. As ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102977 Scientists 'Plug into' Power and Communications Outlet on the Seafloor
... 2006 19980924 Sep 24, 1998 1 First Permanent U.S. Deep Seafloor Observatory Installed Scientists ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102919 State Rankings for R & D
... News release: Strong R&D Spending Buttresses U.S. Economic Growth, Report Shows Excerpts from ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102910 Science Board Calls for Systematic R&D Priority-Setting
... the future state of scientific research in the U.S., is calling for further study on how to set ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102848 Federal Support Declines for University R&D Facilities
... data on space available for S&E research in U.S. colleges and universities, adequacy and ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=101803 Underground Explosions Shed New Light on the Inner Earth
... Engineering Research Council, scientists in the U.S. and Canada participated in this joint ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100823 NSF Mentors Show Area Students with Disabilities Paths Toward Science and Engineering Careers
... with Disabilities (AAPD) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100464 Midwest Thunderstorm Study Points Toward Better Forecasts
... winds, but may spawn up to 20% of all U.S. tornadoes. Remnant circulations from large thunderstorm ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100452 Dec. 1 Antarctic Videoconference Bridges Past and Future of Polar Science and Exploration
... by the U.S. Antarctic Program. As manager of the program, NSF coordinates all U.S ... Md., in 1866, accompanied Robert E. Peary on a U.S. expedition to the North Pole on April 6, 1909 ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112730 Team USA Brings Home the (Linguistics) Gold
... ended today in Slanchev Bryag, Bulgaria, and U.S. high school students captured 11 out of 33 awards ... events. This was only the second time the U.S. has ever competed in the event. Their achievement ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073 National Science Board to Meet at National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Examine Sustainable Energy Challenges
... June 19, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy ... Force is charged with examining the role of the U.S. government in addressing the S&E challenges ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111726 National Science Foundation to Announce First CISE Distinguished Education Fellows
... catching up to our level of excellence, and U.S. enrollment in computer science programs has ... does the preparation of a globally competitive U.S. workforce. Unfortunately, despite the deep and ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109691 The Arctic Observing Network (AON)
... Data from the AON will enable the interagency U.S. government initiative--the Study of Environmental ... of the National Academies of Science report, A U.S. Vision for the International Polar Year (IPY ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109687 National Science Foundation Requests $6.43 Billion for Fiscal Year 2008
... role those disciplines play as major drivers of U.S. economic well being, innovation, education and ... the IPY research will support the goals of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Work will ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108364 Overall Antarctic Snowfall Hasn't Changed in 50 Years
... Antarctica and over time and b-roll of the U.S. ITASE traverse on Betacam SP, contact Dena Headlee ... the continent's climate history. NSF funded the U.S. component of ITASE. 107922 pwest OPP OPP ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107920 Lake Vostok
... of the U.S. Antarctic Program, coordinates nearly all U.S. research in Antarctica and would lead U.S ... ice cores in 1998. A joint Russian, French and U.S, team drilled and analyzed the core, which is ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103062 1997-98 Antarctic Research Season Underway
... For summaries of all field projects of the U.S. Antarctic Program during the 1997-98 season, request ... the federal agency that funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic Program. Studies are based out of three ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102842 Presidential Awards Recognize the World's Best Teaching
... comparisons than those of many of their U.S. colleagues. The results of a random survey of former ... U.S. fourth-graders performing above international averages in both math and science. In science, U ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102817 Interactive Math Makes for Active Learning in Philadelphia
... U.S. can achieve the national education goal of global preeminence in math and science despite U.S ... reports that U.S. math teaching generally is devoid of challenging content. U.S. students perform at ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=101814 NSF Ship Delivers Emergency Provisions to Russian Antarctic Base
... propulsion capacity. The U.S. National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S. Antarctic Research ... for a Russian inland station, Vostok, home of a U.S.-Russian-French ice core project which has ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100888 NSF Invites Media to Apply for Arctic Reporting Slots on Bering Sea Research Cruise
... Program (BSIERP) research cruise aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, the Healy.Selected ... Polar Year 2007-2009 (IPY). NSF is the lead U.S. agency for IPY.The BEST and BSIERP programs are ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114058 Unlocking Climate Mysteries and Engaging Students from Harlem to Antarctica
... by the U.S. Antarctic Program. As manager of the program, NSF coordinates all U.S ... kind in 50 years. NSF is the lead agency for the U.S. government's IPY efforts.Scientists understand ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112691 Planetary "First Family" Discovered By Astronomers Using Gemini and Keck Observatories
... British Columbia, and members from the U.S. and U.K., confirmed this discovery and found a third ... Research in Astronomy Inc.--a consortium of 33 U.S. universities and institutions and seven ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112613 NSF Enables Pakistan to Connect to Global Research Community through New High Speed Link
... HEC) applaud the creation of a functional U.S.-Pakistan network connection. This connection was ... efforts of technologists and governments in the U.S., Europe and Pakistan needed to make this vision ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112503 Despite Frustrations, Americans Are Pretty Darned Happy
... in the world, from a global perspective the U.S. looks pretty good," says Ronald Inglehart, a ... rank lower in terms of their citizens' happiness.U.S. Happiness and Recent Public Opinion ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111725 National Science Board to Honor Norm Augustine with Prestigious Vannevar Bush Award
... at a black-tie dinner ceremony on May 6 at the U.S. Department of State.NSB is the 24-member ... advises the president and Congress on matters of U.S. science and engineering policy. Each year, the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111409 New Data Show Strong Labor Market for Scientists and Engineers
... Kannankutty.Unemployment rates for the entire U.S. labor force in 2003 and 2006 were 6 percent and ... varied by specific field.The third NSF report on U.S. doctorates shows that 45 percent of those who ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111369 National Science Board Names 2008 Public Service Award Winners
... tie dinner and ceremony on May 6, 2008, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. BayerThe ... Series. "It's no secret that the number of U.S. students graduating with an engineering degree has ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111368 Online Magazine for Elementary Teachers Brings Polar Issues Into Classrooms Nationwide
... of IPY." Among the IPY goals formulated by the U.S. National Committee for IPY, established by the ... NSF's Office of Polar Programs manages the U.S. Antarctic Program and the agency's director chairs ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111303 Leading Engineers and Scientists Identify Advances That Could Improve Quality of Life Around the World
... this century," said committee chair and former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry." Some can ... director, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and health editor and columnist, U.S. News & World ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111158 National Science Foundation Requests $6.85 Billion for Fiscal Year 2009
... NSF's role in this area in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and advance activities in ... collaborative research projects that link U.S. institutions and researchers at all career levels ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111084 Risking Wildfire
... Science Foundation (NSF). According to the U.S. Forest Service, October wildfires destroyed 2,000 ... researchers at the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey and two U.S. Universities warned ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110590 Antarctic Icebergs: Unlikely Oases for Ocean Life
... of the U.S. Antarctic Program, NSF coordinates and provides logistical support to all U.S. research ... and ecosystems program director for the U.S. Antarctic Program. "And as we progress through the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109653 Survey Reveals Family Ties and Traditional Activities Keep Arctic Communities Vital
... residents find important," said Jack Kruse, the U.S. project team leader. "It also documents and ... in the sciences," she said. NSF is the lead U.S. government agency for IPY. Of the more than $6 ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108476 South Pole Telescope Completed: New NSF Video, Animation Available
... completion of its construction. NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program and its three year-round ... such global research campaign since IGY. The U.S. opening ceremony for IPY was held Feb. 26 at the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108425 Video Explains What Science Learns From Avian Stars of "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins"
... ANT 14030000 107077 1 http://www.us-ipy.gov U.S. interagency International Polar Year (IPY) Web ... 102869 U.S. Antarctic Program 107081 http://photolibrary.usap.gov/index2.htm The U.S. Antarctic ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108180 National Science Board Recommends Major New Investments in Hurricane Science and Engineering
... Research Initiative, will be unveiled in U.S. Capitol Room SC-6 on Sept. 29 from 10:30-11:30 a.m ... Room SC-6, U.S. Capitol (Note to reporters/editors: Reporters who do not have U.S. Capitol press ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108029 International Team Maps Rice Genome
... The U.S. National Plant Genome Initiative coordinated the U.S. component of the project. The U.S ... Service, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Rockefeller ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104336 First Drill Hole Into San Andreas Fault Will Aid Earthquake Studies
... project carried out in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey. "We now have the first ... SAFOD co-principal investigators with the U.S. Geological Survey, said the San Andreas fault is ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104300 Federal Agencies Partner to Document Endangered Languages
... sounds of South Africa's N/u language are produced. Only 13 fluent N/u speakers remain. Kristine ... Descriptive and Theoretical Studies of N|u, $14,452 (NSF) Susan Penfield, University of Arizona ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104138 "Vital Information" - Laureates of the 2002 National Medal of Science
... and earphones became standard throughout the U.S. military and the British Royal Air Force. He also ... During the introduction of jet aircraft into the U.S. commercial and military fleets, Beranek made a ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103051 A Brief History of NSF and the Internet
... the precursor to the Internet began with the U.S. Defense Department's ARPAnet. ARPA-funded ... NSFNET carried, at no cost to institutions, any U.S. research and education traffic that could reach ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103050 Natural Hazards Response Requires New Approach, Study Says
... Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. Forest Service and the ... He noted that seven of the 10 most costly U.S. disasters occurred between 1989 and 1994. The states ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103010 NSF Awards Extend Global Connectivity Through High Performance Network Connections to the Asia Pacific Rim and Russia
... is also one of the largest universities in the U.S., with more than 100,000 students, faculty and ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102917 Upswing in Industrial R&D Creating Positive Economic Benefits
... privately funded research. The volume says that U.S. industry has turned a corner in the last few ... and applied research. Patents granted to U.S. inventors and those from a number of key ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102897 National Science Foundation
... research infrastructure and stewardship to boost U.S. leadership in all aspects of science ... the U.S. and international research communities, through cooperative projects between U.S ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100595 NSF Launches Third Generation of Engineering Research Centers with Awards Totaling $92.5 Million
... services and on strengthening the capacity of U.S. engineering graduates to compete in global ... significant impacts on the competitiveness of U.S. industry than their predecessors."Including the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112313 NSF Launches an ERC for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
... significant impacts on the competitiveness of U.S. industry than their predecessors." CIAN will ... and will have nine university partners in the U.S.: California Institute of Technology Columbia ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112264 New Technologies Could Make Airport Screening More Effective and Less Cumbersome
... u.arizona.eduNSF awards: 8810997, 0425650, 9906063, 9009100, 8810997Web site: http://www.u.arizona ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108133 New Approaches to Airport Security
... u.arizona.eduNSF awards: 8810997, 0425650, 9906063, 9009100, 8810997Web site: http://www.u.arizona ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108019 National Science Board to Discuss Spending and Oversight of NSF's $3 Billion Stimulus to Invest in America's Scientific Enterprise
... Act directed to NSF, $3 billion, to enable U.S. investment in America's scientific enterprise.The ... force was charged with examining the role of the U.S. government in addressing science and ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114211 NSF Press Briefing: Green Gasoline
... Family Day at the U.S. Botanic Garden, just across First Street SW from the U.S. Capitol, to display ... The plants are being provided by the USDA U.S. National Arboretum courtesy of their Power ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112243 National Science Board Catalyzes Scientific Analysis of Sustainable Energy Alternatives
... Force is charged with examining the role of the U.S. government in addressing S&E challenges ... National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce1:55 p.m.Advancing Public ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112159 International Collaboration & OISE Cofunding
... to well-established ones; Clear benefit to U.S. science/engineering community from expertise ... of U.S. students and junior researchers at the foreign site. OISE does not provide support for U.S ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112067 A Single Boulder May Prove that Antarctica and North America Were Once Connected
... of the journal Science, an international team of U.S. and Australian investigators describe their ... supercontinent, called Rodinia, looked like. The U.S. investigators were funded by the National ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111911 Large-Scale Experiments Needed to Predict Global Change
... with the Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS)."The world ... soil erosion across the farmlands of the U.S. Midwest, leading to intense dust storms. Large amounts ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111600 Designer Isotopes Push the Frontier of Science
... newer equipment is needed. The next step for the U.S. nuclear science community will be the Facility ... astrophysics, expected to be built by the U.S. Department of Energy sometime in the next decade ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111552 Research Team Is First to Model Photochemical Compass for Bird Navigation
... of such a magnetic field until now. The U.S. and U.K. researchers have demonstrated that a ... chemistry at Oxford University and head of the U.K. team.Gust and Arizona State University ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111509 NSF Provides Funding to Transform Computing Education
... Enrollment in computer science programs in the U.S. has declined in recent years.Despite the deep ... as it did several decades ago. In order for the U.S. to maintain its competitive edge, computing ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110158 Erb Honored by French Republic for Contributions to International Scientific Cooperation
... Sciences. He also heads the U.S. Antarctic Program, which manages all U.S. research on the ... OPP/ANT 14030000 108238 http://www.ipy.gov The U.S. government's International Polar Year (IPY ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109686 International Polar Year Web Portal Offers E-mail Alerts for Educators
... assist scientists in the field is added to the U.S. government's Web portal for the International ... a reporter's visit to the Antarctic Peninsula. a U.S. Geological Survey site that contains ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108984 Global Earth Day Broadcast to Feature South Pole
... U.S. Antarctic Program and chairs the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, is the lead U.S ... 108758 pwest OPP OPP/ANT 14030000 107205 U.S. Government International Polar Year portal http ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108756 Shirley Ann Jackson, Leader in Higher Education and Government, to Receive the Vannevar Bush Award
... innovations she implemented as chairwoman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999), and ... in 1995, President Clinton appointed her to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Coming ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108494 Chemical Cause of Antarctic Ozone Hole Discovered 20 Years Ago This Month
... said Erick Chiang, who is in charge of U.S. Antarctic operations, logistics, telecommunications ... NSF as the lead federal agency for coordinating U.S. IPY activities. Extending from March 2007 ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107957 NSF Awards $1.8 Million to Study High-School Advanced Placement Work in Math and Science
... Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools, issued by the National Research ... test could ever change." Studies have shown that U.S. high school students continue to slip further ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106929 NSF Ships to Probe Biological Enigmas of the Frozen Southern Ocean
... University in Norfolk, Va., one of several U.S. researchers who will take part in the international ... summer." The science teams will sail aboard the U.S. Antarctic Program vessels Laurence M. Gould and ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106910 Geologists Drill Into Fossil Magma Chamber Deep Under the Ocean
... said Jamie Allan, IODP program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation, which co-funds the ... IODP is supported by two lead agencies, the U.S. National Science Foundation and Japan's Ministry of ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106899 NSF Invites Reporters to Apply for Berth on Bering Sea Research Cruise
... days aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy during the last week of May. U.S. media receive ... as from on-line news operations, are welcome. U.S. mass media that serve primarily language-minority ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106824 Request for National Science Foundation Fiscal Year 2007 Is $6.02 Billion
... for a diverse, competitive, and globally engaged U.S. workforce of scientists, engineers ... s 2004 U.S. Ocean Action Plan, developed in response to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. NSF ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105803 NSF Launches New Web Portal for International Polar Year
... by the federal government as part of the U.S. contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY ... interested in obtaining IPY funding from the U.S. government. New content will be continually added ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105719 Icy Overland Trip May Add Ground Vehicles to South Pole Supply Missions
... NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which supports and coordinates all U.S. science conducted on ... at the South Pole on Dec. 23, 2005 (local time). U.S. stations in Antarctica keep New Zealand time ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105718 Revered Scientific Drilling Ship Gets Extreme Makeover
... Institutions (JOI), Inc. The JOI Alliance is the U.S. implementing organization for IODP, and is ... integrated science services in support of the U.S. drillship for IODP. Under the contract, this ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105670 NSF Invites Media to Participate in Two Research Cruises to the Arctic Ocean
... central Arctic Ocean by two surface ships, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy and the Oden, a ... must be received no later than May 28, 2005. U.S. media receive preference in selection. Application ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104187 NSB Announces Recipients of the 2005 Vannevar Bush and Public Service Awards
... advises the president and Congress on matters of U.S. science and engineering. Each year, they ... for visionary leadership and efforts to enhance U.S. innovation, competitiveness and excellence in ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104159 NSF Invites Media to Observe Arctic Field Experiment
... exploration and science, including the ill-fated U.S. Army Greely expedition, undertaken in the ... May en route to camp and observing the science. U.S. media receive preference in selection ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103159 Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
... In the U.S., an interagency program began in 1996 with funds from NSF, the U.S. Department of Energy ... the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The European Union, the Government of France, and the Chiba ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103071 NSF to Provide $21 Million for Computer Science, Engineering and Math Scholarships
... FY 1999) is derived from a $500 fee that U.S. employers pay to the federal government for each ... annually. Scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, refugee aliens or permanent ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102984 President Asks Almost $4 Billion for NSF's Fiscal Year 2000 Budget
... the total U.S. economy, and they say the industry has generated about a third of all U.S. economic ... the increased importance of IT to the overall U.S. economy. In the new budget, NSF will also invest ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102964 Twenty NSF-Supported Young Scientists and Engineers Receive Presidential Award
... honor is the highest bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding young scientists and engineers ... engineers for the 21st century while maintaining U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102839 NSF Awards Recognize Comprehensive Reform of Undergraduate Education
... simple and straightforward proposition, U.C.-Irvine is about to embark on an ambitious strategy to ... led the National Science Foundation to include U.C.-Irvine among 19 colleges and universities to ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102824 Diversity in Science & Engineering: Progress and Problems
... except Asians) remain a small proportion of U.S. scientists and engineers. Blacks, Hispanics and ... the U.S. population, but 6 percent of the S&E labor force in 1993. Historically Black Colleges ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=101822 Faculty Early Career Development Grants Drive Both Research and Education
... $500,000 each. "At the best universities in the U.S., research and education go hand-in-hand," said ... Because of this unique integration, the U.S. educational system is envied worldwide. NSF wants to ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=101815 Hurricanes Past, Present, and Future: New Perspectives
... several weather disasters, including the eastern U.S. "superstorm" of March 1993, and the Midwest ... since the 1950s have reduced the death toll from U.S. hurricanes, damage costs continue to rise ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100796 A Lost World: Two Previously Unknown Dinosaurs Discovered in Antarctica
... Illinois, whose research was supported by the U.S. Antarctic Program, will describe the highly ... NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which coordinates almost all U.S. research on the ...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100472
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