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...member research team found that children in the new program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) enjoyed studying science more than they had before. The report also showed that their teachers thought the program led to greater gains in learning and more flexible teaching techniques...
Jones said most of Harvard's Federal money came from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health. Since 1968 NSF fellowships have fallen from a high of 322 to 240 this year. Trainee grants, which provide money for students to attend a specific university, have declined at Harvard from over 70 to 33 and Jones said they will be "virtually gone by next year...
Pound said that NSF fellowships had decreased significantly over the past two years in his department and that trainee programs had fallen to almost nothing. He indicated that research grants for the Physics Department had remained constant but said that inflationary pressures and the necessity of supporting students out of research funds had caused a strain...
...often have trouble with a pyramiding of resources among the ablest students, One student may be an NSF grantee, a teaching fellow and a resident House tutor, while another receives very little financial aid," he said...
Francis G. O'Brien, an NSF official in Washington, said yesterday. "Part of the slack caused by the reduction in direct support to students will be taken up through increased funding for research...