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3 unusual facts about NSF


Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics

The NSF grant was awarded to five principal investigators at Brown University in August 2010 and ICERM opened its doors one year later, following a start-up period that included a major renovation on the beautiful space provided by Brown University.

Leroy Hood

In 1989 he stepped down as Chairman to assume the Directorship of a newly awarded NSF Science and Technology Center for Molecular Biotechnology.

Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas

She is the most senior of three Principal Investigators for the Poincaré Institute, which was launched in 2011 with funding from the NSF, which announced : receiving $9,550,799, Tufts University (Medford) for the project, entitled “The Poincare Institute: A Partnership for Mathematics Education,” which is under the direction of Montserrat Teixidor-i-Bigas.


Anthony E. Siegman

He was a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board during 1974-80 and served on advisory groups for NBS, NIST, NSF and other government agencies.

Associated Universities, Inc.

ALMA is funded in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan, in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) and in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC).

Cimbali

Furthermore they comply with the most rigorous international hygiene and sanitation authorities including NSF and ETL.

Commercial Internet eXchange

The focus of this group was either military/government or research and education communications, especially support for the separately funded NSF supercomputing initiatives that started after Nobel laureate Ken Wilson's testimony to Congress in the 1980s.

CSDMS

The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, a NSF-funded project to numerically model Earth-surface processes

Cutting board

There are several certifications of plastic cutting boards, one being NSF, that certifies the plastic has passed requirements to come in contact with food.

Dartmouth Time Sharing System

In 1962, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College submitted a grant for the development of a new time-sharing system to NSF (funded in 1964).

Gadodiamide

However, a recent report by the Danish Medicines Agency stated that there were 35 cases of NSF reported after use of Omniscan and that 33 of these had been reported from a single centre in Copenhagen.

Geoffrey C. Bowker

With Helen Nissenbaum, he founded the NSF funded Values in Design network to bring together scholars examining these issues across broader sites of study and across disciplines.

Gerald Harris Rosen

He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in 1959 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, returning to the United States in 1960 to serve as a consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Harry Atwater

Atwater is an MRS Fellow and has been honored by awards including the 2012 ENI award for Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy; MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience in 2010; Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010; Joop Los Fellowship from the Dutch Society for Fundamental Research on Matter in 2005, A.T. & T. Foundation Award, 1990; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989; IBM Faculty Development Award, 1989-1990; Member, Bohmische Physical Society, 1990; IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1987.

High Altitude Observatory

NCAR is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and receives substantial funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection

Funding for the I3P has come from various sources, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

James B. McClintock

This work, funded by NSF, has been conducted at the United States research facilities McMurdo Station (Ross Sea) and Palmer Station (Antarctic Peninsula).

James Tiedje

James Tiedje is the director of the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at Michigan State University, as well as a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology.

Jones Mountains

The naming was proposed by Thiel and Craddock after Dr. Thomas O. Jones (1908-93), American chemist; senior NSF official in charge of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program, 1958-78; Director, Division of Environmental Science, NSF, 1965-69; Deputy Assistant Director for National and International Programs, NSF, 1969-78.

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

She was invited by NSF to use the Cray X-MP (1985) and YMP (1989) supercomputers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Laboratory for Automation Psychology

Research in the LAP has been supported by corporations such as AT&T, Sperry, and IBM and by U.S. federal agencies such as NASA, NSF, NRL, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Lise Getoor

She has six best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.

Lloyd Noel Ferguson

While affiliated with Howard University, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 and an NSF grant in 1960 that allowed him to travel to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Mars sample return mission

In early 2011, the National Research Council's Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which laid out mission planning priorities for the period 2013-2022 at the request of NASA and the NSF, declared a MSR campaign its highest priority Flagship Mission for that period.

N-ethylmaleimide sensitive fusion protein

NSF was discovered by James Rothman and colleagues in 1987 while at Stanford University; they identified NSF after observing that a cytoplasmic factor, required for membrane fusions, was inactivated by treatment with N-ethylmaleimide.

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.

National Students Federation

One of the leading leaders of NSF, Meraj Muhammad Khan, was made a minister in Bhutto's first cabinet but both NSF and Meraj fell out with the Bhutto government in 1973 when Bhutto started to compromise on his socialist agenda.

NES Sound Format

NES Sound Format (NSF or .nsf) is the filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM (Nintendo Entertainment System Music) by the inventor Kevin Horton.

Network Startup Resource Center

NSRC receives major funding and in-kind donations from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google and Google.org, Cisco, O'Reilly Media, Vint Cerf, the Richard M. Karp Foundation, IDRC, ISOC, and many other institutional and private donors.

Organizations in Deus Ex

He sends an NSF distress signal from NSF's New York headquarters in Hell's Kitchen, allowing other NSF bases and resistance groups in Europe to take necessary counter measures.

Project Vanguard

Encouraged by conversations between Richard W. Porter of General Electric and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Rosen on November 27, 1954 completed a report describing the potential value of launching an earth satellite.

Python Robotics

The principal investigators on the NSF grant were Douglas Blank of Bryn Mawr College, Kurt Konolige of SRI International, Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) of Bryn Mawr College, Lisa Meeden of Swarthmore College, and Holly Yanco of University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Rita R. Colwell

In 2004 Dr. Colwell left her position as Director of NSF to become the chief scientist at Canon U.S. Life Sciences, a division of Canon.

Robin Lingle

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach.

Self-locating datum marker buoy

The design is based on those of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) and Davis-style oceanographic surface drifters – National Science Foundation (NSF) funded experiments exploring ocean surface currents.

Steven Zimmerman

After an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge with Sir Alan R. Battersby, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois (1985).

Storage Resource Broker

SRB development began in 1995, through the cooperative efforts of General Atomics, the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group (DICE), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

Transpac

TransPAC2, part of the NSF’s International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System

Federal support for and cooperation with UNOLS is found in the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and other agencies.

Zelee Subglacial Trench

The feature was delineated by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and named after the corvette Zelee (Lt. Charles Jacquinot) of the French expedition, 1837–40 (Capt. Jules Dumont d'Urville).


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