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Consequently, a decision was made in 1970 to transfer the IDLs to the National Science Foundation. [2] The block type IDL grant for multidisciplinary research and shared facilities would mean a distinct departure of NSF's funding approach at that time which was support of predominantly small, single investigator grants in a particular discipline.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government 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.
NCAR is managed by the nonprofit UCAR and is one of the NSF's Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, with approximately 95% of its funding coming from the federal government. However, it is not a federal agency and its employees are not part of the federal personnel system. [3] NCAR employs about 761 staff.
In 1994, the NSF solicited proposals to build such a center, and the University of California, Santa Barbara was awarded $10.4 million to establish and operate the center for five years. [9] Subsequent grants were awarded to UC Santa Barbara to continue NCEAS in 2000 ($16.6 million) [ 10 ] and 2006 ($18.5 million).
A staff report of the committee, the Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Applications, provided non-technical information about spaceflight to U.S. policy makers. [ 2 ] The committee also chartered the permanent House Committee on Science and Astronautics , which officially began on January 3, 1959, and was the first new standing committee ...
The Tallahassee laboratory at Florida State University is a 370,000 sq ft (34,000 m 2) complex and has approximately 300 faculty, staff, graduate, and postdoctoral students. Its director is physicist Kathleen Amm. [11] [12] Its chief scientist is Laura Greene.
The president appoints 24 members of the National Science Board for six year terms. The NSF director serves as an ex officio 25th member. Every two years, one-third (eight) of the members rotate off the board and eight new members are appointed (or occasionally re-appointed) to serve six-year terms.
United States National Science Foundation officials (72 P) Pages in category "National Science Foundation" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total.