NSF
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- The NSF provides grants to help scientists conduct groundbreaking research in various fields.
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Science Foundation (NSF)
- NSF grant
They don't really touch DARPA, They certainly don't touch NSF, they don't touch NIH.
- They don't really touch DARPA, They certainly don't touch NSF, they don't touch NIH.
- We're trying to get NSF to give us money to do this precisely.
- The cornerstone of these announcements was a joint research program between NSF and NIH.
- And one of them is funding for research, NIH research, NSF research.
- So in the most recent Daily News article, they talk about the NSF survey of earned doctorates.
- We figured we drew upon the resources that had already been funded by an NSF grant in nanotechnology, the Nano Hub.
- If you look at like, you know, tax dollars, a huge amount of it goes to, to neuroscience via the, the NSF and the NIH.
- Bernoulli and you know, Maxwell and Newton, were they funded by NSF?
- So that's funneled through the NSF, but it's a larger effort to develop some of these materials involving NSF DOEDOD and so forth.
- And fortunately we got NSF on a good day and they funded this facility of one of almost every tool to make anything.
Examples
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) introduced the term STEM as an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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The director of the NSF is appointed to a six-year term.
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We're trying to get NSF to give us money to do this precisely.
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Is NASA, rather than NSF, to become the dominant funding agency for university research on global change?
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In fact, it's been exceedingly difficult to get standard NSF funding for that kind of of activity.
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With the successful Phase I completion of the NSF grant, the commercial prototype of iMobot has been developed.
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The boost means a hike from $1.86 billion for NSF research last year to $2.02 billion this fiscal year.
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During the last fifteen years, the Center has administered seven large-scale NSF-funded projects totaling over $20M.
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Many universities rely on NSF funding to support educational programs and innovative projects.
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The NSF announced new funding opportunities for researchers focused on climate change solutions.
Synonyms
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An independent United States agency that gives money to support research and education in science and engineering
Surface Forms
Morphology
NSF = N + S + F
This is an initialism/acronym made of letters; the component letters do not function as meaningful English morphemes, so the word's meaning cannot be derived from its parts.
Etymology
NSF stands for National Science Foundation, a US government agency that gives money and support for science and engineering research and education. Think of foundation as a building 'base' that holds things up, so the NSF is like a 'base' that helps science projects grow.