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The May 26, 2011 report "National Science Foundation: Under the Microscope" was highly critical of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Conservative Republican Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma argued that poor management and practices at NSF, "waste, fraud, duplication and mismanagement" have resulted in losses of over $1.2 billion, with a further $1.7 billion in unspent funds. [6]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) won the first Golden Fleece Award for spending $84,000 on a study on love. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Proxmire reasoned that: [ 18 ] I object to this not only because no one—not even the National Science Foundation—can argue that falling in love is a science; not only because I'm sure that even if they spend $84 ...
Ernst’s knock on pennies was just a small part of a partisan letter that was primarily spent on attacking California public transit and the National Science Foundation.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) was established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950. [7] Its stated mission is "to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense."
National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Food and Drug Administration science and research programs; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
The National Cristina Foundation, TechSoup (the Donate Hardware List), the Computer Takeback Campaign, and the National Technology Recycling Project provide resources for recycling. [ 96 ] [ 98 ] Local recycling sites that do not process waste products on site still contribute to electronic waste.
Photograph by: Peter Rejcek. National Science Foundation. More than 50 years of continuous operation of the United States and New Zealand bases on Ross Island have left pockets of severe pollution in McMurdo Sound. Until 1981, McMurdo Station residents simply towed their garbage out to the sea ice and let nature take its course. The garbage ...
In 2010 she joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, and in 2021 she became a full professor. [5] She has received funding from the Department of Defense to investigate chitin-based bulletproof coatings [6] and leads an interdisciplinary team funded through the Welch Foundation to transform polyolefin plastic waste into useful materials. [7]