National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology Roles and Influences on STI Policymaking
FastLane is the "central nervous system" for the National Science Foundation, which relies on it to manage $7 billion in research funding. FastLane, developed in the 1990s and made mandatory in October 2000, transformed NSF from a paper-based organization to a computer-centered one. The Charles Babbage Institute has recently completed the first ful...
Published in Physics in Perspective
The second part of this interview covers Frank Oppenheimer’s move to the University of California at Berkeley and wartime work at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the electromagnetic-separation plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and at Los Alamos, New Mexico (1941–1945); his postwar research at Berkeley (1945–1947)...
Steve Everett, Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory and Nick Hud, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Chemical Evolution at Georgia Tech join use to discuss a unique collaboration between music and science. Entitled “First Life“, this program is a combination of music and a ...
Published in Minerva
The demand for greater public accountability is changing the nature of ex ante peer review at public science agencies worldwide. Based on a four year research project, this essay examines these changes through an analysis of the process of grant proposal review at two US public science agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Natio...
Published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Rodgers MM, Cohen ZA, Joseph L, Rossi W, for the Workshop on Personal Motion Technologies for Healthy Independent Living Presenters. Workshop on personal motion technologies for healthy independent living: executive summary.The objective of the June 2010 “Workshop on Personal Motions Technologies for Healthy Independent Living” was to discuss perso...
Published in Journal of Science Education and Technology
Increasing college degree attainment for students from disadvantaged backgrounds is a prominent component of numerous state and federal legislation focused on higher education. In 1999, the National Science Foundation (NSF) instituted the “Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships” (CSEMS) program; this initiative was designed to ...