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Students participating in REU sites are generally provided with a modest stipend ($4,000–$6,000 for 10 weeks of work), housing, transportation to and from the site, and often arrangements for food. REU individual experiences pay (stipends or on an hourly basis) at about the same payrate as REU sites.
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) is a grant awarded annually by the National Science Foundation to approximately 2,000 students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US institutions. As of 2024, the fellowship provides an ...
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States. [1]
The National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) is hosting a virtual Wikipedia editing workshop series and Translatathon with AfroCROWD. At this first event, students, professors, and faculty will translate Wikipedia articles among any languages which attendees understand.
NSF joined with other federal agencies in the National Nanotechnology Initiative, dedicated to the understanding and control of matter at the atomic and molecular scale. NSF's roughly $300 million annual investment in nanotechnology research was still one of the largest in the 23-agency initiative. In 2001, NSF's appropriation passed $4 billion.
Blue Waters was a petascale supercomputer operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the National Science Foundation to fund "the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful leadership-class supercomputer."
NSF (an initialism for National Sanitation Foundation) is a public health organization [1] headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan [2] that tests and certifies foods, water, and consumer products. [1] It also facilitates the development of standards for these products, [ 1 ] labeling products it has certified to meet these standards with the NSF mark.
The primary institution for the iPlant project is the University of Arizona, located within the BIO5 Institute in Tucson. [26] Since its inception in 2008, personnel worked at other institutions including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and the University of Texas at Austin in the Texas Advanced Computing Center. [27]