Friday, May 28, 2021

Statement by NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the President’s FY22 Budget Request

Statement by NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the President’s FY22 Budget Request

The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2022. As the Administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the Budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better and lay the foundation for shared growth and prosperity for decades to come.

“This request will bolster the U.S. economy and our leadership in critical and emerging areas of ...

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Published May 28, 2021 at 05:30PM
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

NSF, AACC announce Community College Innovation Challenge finalists

NSF, AACC announce Community College Innovation Challenge finalists

poster with a collage of an array of students working in the field

The U.S. National Science Foundation, in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges, has selected 12 teams to advance to the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge.

CCIC seeks to strengthen entrepreneurial thinking among community college students by challenging them to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems. It also enables students to discover and demonstrate their capacity to use STEM to make a difference in the world and to ...

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Published May 11, 2021 at 06:00PM
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NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award

NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award

left side is Melanie Matchett Wood and right side is Nicholas Carnes

A mathematician who uses number theory to provide new perspectives on some of the oldest and most difficult problems in mathematics, and a social scientist whose innovative contributions show the impact of increased opportunity and representation on our nation’s most important decisions -- Melanie Matchett Wood, a Harvard University mathematician, and Nicholas Carnes, a Duke University social scientist and scholar of public policy, have earned the National Science Foundation's Alan T. ...

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Published May 11, 2021 at 02:00PM
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