Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics who, incidentally, directed Smale's doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan some fifteen years ago, and five others whose names were withheld from the press, sent a letter yesterday to the director of the NSF, Leland J. Haworth. In it, Bott referred to what he called "political pressures" which affected the NFS's decision to reject Smale's request for a continuation of his present grant...
...reason was given for the NSF decision, Douglas L. Oliver, professor of Anthropology and chairman of the department said yesterday, but "there has been a good deal of research cutback due to the Vietnam war." Oliver also indicated that the NSF in recent years has begun to distribute funds to a larger number of colleges...
Harvard's summer program, initiated in 1962 with an NSF grant, provides some ten juniors each year with an opportunity to do field research somewhere in the world. The student lives in a village, and researches some aspect of the native life, which generally becomes the theme of his undergraduate thesis...
Students in the program last year received a ten-week stipend of $600 plus an allowance for travel expenses -- approximately $600 more. Last year's program for ten students cost NSF about...
...NSF's move came as no surprise to the Anthropology Department. Early in the fall, the Foundation told Oliver he could apply again if he wished, but there was no assurance that the money would be available...