Word: nsf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard faculty members have contacted top officials in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in an effort to convince them to ask Congress for a dramatic increase in appropriations for projects which, like the Cambridge Project. use computers for social science research...
President Pusey said this week, "I think Fulbright's motive was to get the Defense Department out of the business of pure research and to put such research under the National Science Foundation. Some of us are a little skeptical of whether funds will actually be transferred to NSF. In theory, I think they [the Defense Department] don't feel they're financing anything that doesn't have some military application...
...NSF last year gave the University 25 percent less than Harvard had expected, Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said yesterday...
...NSF's appropriation has not come through Congress yet, so things may change a little, but in any case things are very serious for us," Leahy said...
...Faculty is now in a slightly better position to handle the reduction because, unlike last year, NSF announced the cut before the Faculty had apportioned the money to the different departments...