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Research universities are facing a growing crisis as the supply of well-trained students continues to lag behind the increasing nationwide demand for scientific research, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) said yesterday...
Bloch also said that the NSF, which is a major source of federal funding for university research, has been shifting its focus the last few years from strictly supporting research to funding programs that encourage high school and undergraduate science education...
...meeting was held behind closed doors--the only scientists allowed to attend were those invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency, and the Electric Power Research Institute, a private organization...
...spite of all the negative feedback, the NSF committee decided that previous experiments were inconclusive and that further research should be conducted to find the answers to the yet unsolved questions...
Rueckner said the closed-door policy of the recent NSF committee meeting was "irksome" because scientific debate should be an open forum, andnot limited to those with a certain view...