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In addition to its investments in core research and
education, NSF identifies and supports emerging opportunities
that hold exceptional promise to advance knowledge.
Investments in each of these priority areas support
a broad range of promising research directions and
platforms in developing areas of science and engineering.
NSF's budget for the 2004 fiscal year emphasizes investments
in five interdependent priority areas:
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Nanoscale Science and Engineering
This priority area explores phenomena
at molecular and atomic scales and new
techniques to facilitate a broad range
of applications. Recent advances have
already begun to spawn useful new materials
and promising innovations that will touch
every part of our lives. To learn more
about the Nanoscale Science and Engineering
priority area, see http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/priority/nano/start.htm
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Biocomplexity in the Environment
This priority area is a multidisciplinary
effort that draws on new scientific and
technological capabilities to investigate
the interactions among ecological, social
and physical earth systems. To learn more
about the Biocomplexity in the Environment
priority area, see http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ere/ereweb/fund-biocomplex.cfm
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Information Technology Research
This priority area deepens research on
software, networking, scalability, and
communications to improve ways to gather,
store, analyze, share, and display information.
To learn more about the Information Technology
Research priority area, see http://www.itr.nsf.gov/
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Mathematical Sciences
The role of mathematics has expanded in science and society, and today’s discoveries in science and engineering are intertwined with advances across the mathematical sciences. This priority area will focus on fundamental mathematical and statistical research, collaboration between the mathematical sciences and other disciplines, and mathematics education. To learn more, see http://www.nsf.gov/mps/divisions/dms/start.htm
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Human and Social Dynamics
This priority area aims to help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change through a better understanding of the causes and ramifications of change, the dynamics of behavior and the human mind, and the cognitive and social structures that create and define change. To learn more about the Human and Social Dynamics priority area, see http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/hsd/start.htm
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