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  December 10 , 2001: Highlights

graphic of currency OMB Director Praises NSF Efficiency
White House Office of Management and Budget director Mitch Daniels lauded NSF as a model of administrative efficiency in a speech at the National Press Club Nov. 28. Daniels called NSF one of the "true centers of excellence in this government" for its low overhead costs and efficient use of tax dollars. He praised the proposal review process, which determines how tax dollars are to be disseminated "on a competitive basis directly to researchers pursuing the frontiers of science." Daniels also mentioned that eight of the 12 most recent Nobel Laureates were supported by NSF.
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image of cover design for Guide to Programs Guide to Programs for FY 2002 Is Now Available
The new edition of the Guide to Programs (NSF 02-03) is now available on the NSF website at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?gp. Published each fiscal year, the Guide is a compilation of funding opportunities offered by NSF for research and education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. NSF funds research and education in most fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants to and cooperative agreements with more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations, and other research institutions throughout the United States. NSF accounts for about one-fourth of all Federal support to academic institutions for basic research.
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graphic of ocean circulation systemSpectrograph Could Identify Chemical and Biological Agents
A team of researchers has developed a rugged portable detection system that could provide real-time recognition of chemical and biological weapons using infrared spectroscopy. John Rabolt, Mei-Wei Tsao, Douglas Elmore and Simon Frisk of the University of Delaware, and Bruce Chase of the DuPont Company developed the planar array infrared spectrograph with GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) and instrumentation grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The shoebox-sized device can detect small amounts of chemical agents in solid, liquid or vapor phases. When programmed to recognize specific compounds and placed near at-risk sites, the sensor can report the presence of a compound in real time via wireless transmitters.
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image of Jaragua LizardWorld's Smallest Lizard Discovered in the Caribbean
The world's smallest lizard has been discovered on a tiny Caribbean island off the coast of the Dominican Republic. The newly discovered species not only ranks as the smallest lizard, but it also is the smallest of all 23,000 species of reptiles, birds, and mammals, according to a paper published in the December issue of the Caribbean Journal of Science. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State, and Richard Thomas, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico, are co-authors. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded their research.
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