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...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...
...Yale University are under investigation by the federal government amid concerns about inadequate accounting practices at the school in New Haven. According to Yale administrators, the university received subpoenas from the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) late last week. The subpoenas requested material relating to a total of 47 grants. Yale, like other major universities including Harvard, relies heavily on federal funding for scientific studies and receives the bulk of its federal grants from the DOD, HHS, and NSF. The purview of the subpoenas, which Yale...
...Armstrong was about to graduate summa cum laude when his life took an unexpected turn. He had been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to cover his graduate studies in physics, but his House Master John Conway at Leverett House offered him the chance to travel in Europe for a year on a Sheldon travel fellowship. At the time, Armstrong, who had never ventured further than Washington D.C., decided to take the fellowship...
...physics adviser correctly predicted that he would lose his NSF fellowship, and incorrectly that he would ruin his career in an effort to convince him to refuse the trip and go straight to graduate school...
...This hampers productive work both by subjecting the development of science to the prognostications of the NSF as to what areas are worth pursuing, and by distracting scientists by forcing them to justify the validity of their work, which may not yet be clear...