Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably too late to find an alternative method of funding for this summer, David Maybury-Lewis, associate professor of Anthropology and head tutor, said yesterday, so the program will simply be suspended. But the department does plan to apply for the NSF funds again next year, Maybury-Lewis added...
Until last year, Holton was on one of the advisory panels of the National Science Foundation, which in 1963 called 40 physicists from across the country to Washington to discuss the decreasing number of students taking physics courses. NSF asked the scientists to submit some solutions to the problem. Holton's proposal, the one that was accepted, became a new introductory physics course called Harvard Project Physics. It involves 30 physicists throughout the U.S. and is being tried out for the first time this fall by 2600 students in various forms in colleges, junior colleges, and high schools...
...budget Zachary projects is largely independent of Harvard money. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the Center's funds comes from federal grants: NSF, NASA, AEC, National institute of Health, and the Defense Department. When students or professors use the computers for projects not sponsored by Federal grants, their department pays the bill. This accounts for most of the rest of the Center's income. The University as a whole ordinarily gives no money, al this year Harvard granted for some specific projects...
...project has cost about $30,000, which has been paid by the National Science Foundation and the University. In January the NSF granted an additional $30,000 to allow Ying and other graduate students two more years' work on this and another project. But, according to Emmons, the present research is still a long way from yielding practical data...
...support. But it may be that in the future of such an ambitious institution, what the American Anthropological Association thinks is more important than what even the wealthiest donor thinks, just as it may matter more to Harvard's financial solvency to be able to get grants from the NSF and NIH than to graduate alumni who will strike it rich in oil or real estate. In sum, the power of the academic guilds acts as a counter-vailing pressure against local intimidation, just as federal money based on quality of proposals acts as a counter-vailing pressure...