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Thanks to a $650,000 federal grant, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are developing new affordable telescopes they hope will improve high school science education nationwide...
Philip M. Sadler, director of educational projects at the center, said Friday that the National Science Foundation (NSF) this summer approved the grant to fund the Micro Observatory, a project conceived by researchers at the center...
Andrew R. Molnar, director of Applications for Advanced Technology Programs, a division of NSF that awards $6.5 million in grant money every year, said yesterday that the Harvard-Smithsonian project was selected because it will encourage student involvement in scientific research...
...make. His offer of economic assistance to Poland and Hungary, as they attempt to loosen the shackles of the Communist economic system, seemed to be just another example of big talk and small deeds -- an impression offset only slightly when Congress pressured him to increase a proposed grant to Poland from a measly $115 million to a ho-hum $315 million...
...grant-receiving academic institutions do not change their policies to conform with the NIH specifications--slated to go into effect on November 8--they risk losing all funding from the government agency...