National Science Foundation

Subra Suresh has been confirmed as the 13th director of the National Science Foundation. Cora Marrett, who has been serving as acting director, will return to her temporary post as NSF deputy director while she awaits Senate approval to hold the position ...

For example, the very common "system" concept map, which is almost always characterized by arrows showing the circular or spiral "flow" of one part of a process or system into the next, represents the court system through which a case would travel ...

When Congress tells a federal agency to spend money on a particular project not in its budget request-a process called earmarking-the agency generally has little choice but to comply. Even more surprisingly, NSF apparently has done it without incurring the wrath of ...

The National Science Board--the body that oversees the National Science Foundation--is so worried about the state of math and science education in U.S. schools that it sent President-elect Barack Obama a letter this week that lays out six ways to improve. But ...

The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).. ScienceInsider has learned that Subra Suresh, 53, has been tapped by the White House to replace Arden Bement ...

Supremely confident, yet self-effacing enough to gain the trust of those who might disagree with him. Subra Suresh, dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was nominated last week to become the next director of the National Science Foundation.

That potent combination led the U.S. House of Representatives last week to reject legislation aimed at boosting research and education spending at three federal agencies. But the lopsided defeat was also the result of a stealth attack by Republicans against a Democratic ...

The last major science holdover in the Obama Administration is stepping down ahead of schedule this spring, leaving the president free to appoint a new director for the $7 billion National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Suresh Confirmed as New NSF Director

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MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director

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Bement to Leave NSF Before Term Ends

U.S. Science Policy Bement to Leave NSF Before Term Ends

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