Public Bounces Back After Sept. 11 Attacks, National Study Shows
Americans responded with resilience to the events of Sept. 11, registering large increases in their feelings of national pride, confidence in many institutions, and faith in people, according to the National Tragedy Study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. The study, publicly funded by the National Science Foundation, and privately by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, also contrasted public response to Sept. 11 with response to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (also studied by NORC).
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Post-Attack Grants to Study Human, Social Responses to September 11 Crisis
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five grants to social scientists to study human and social behavior responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. The five grants follow eight earlier grants to engineering and social science researchers to conduct post-disaster assessments at the attack sites. More... (posted October 18, 2001)

At WTC Search, Graduate Students Deploy Shoebox-Sized Robots
Graduate students and the experimental robots they helped to develop were among the early responders who joined the search and rescue efforts shortly after the Sept. 11 collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Robotics expert Robin Murphy, an associate professor of computer science at the University of South Florida, was called immediately and arrived on site the morning after the collapse. Murphy's research on experimental mixed-initiative robots for urban rescue operations was originally funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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NSF Announces Institutional Transformation Awards Under "ADVANCE"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the first set of ADVANCE institutional transformation grants which seek to ensure fuller participation and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering. NSF's ADVANCE program will support eight universities that will address these needs through multi-year grants of $3- to $4 million each. The institutions selected for the new awards have examined their current policies and practices and developed plans to pursue new organizational strategies to make access by women to the senior and leadership ranks of university faculties a priority.
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NSF Announces $43.8 Million in Awards for Arabidopsis Plant Genome Research
Building on its successful international effort to complete the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, a model species for understanding plants in general, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced 28 awards under its new 2010 Project. The awards total $43.8 million over four years and are the first under this initiative, which aims to identify within the next ten years how each of the plant's 25,000 genes function.
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