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NSF at Fifty
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NSF50: Celebrating 50 Years
Established in 1950,
the National Science Foundation (NSF) is the federal
government's only agency dedicated to the support
of education and fundamental research in all scientific
and engineering disciplines. Its purpose is to ensure
that the United States maintains leadership in discovery,
learning and innovation across science, mathematics
and engineering. We have achieved this purpose repeatedly
over the past 50 years.
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NSF50 Launches Yearlong
Program and Partnership
On April 27, Nobel
Laureates, along with more than 240 of the nation's
leading scientists and engineers, began sharing their
passion for discovery with middle school students
across the nation. Later this summer some of these
and other leading thinkers and academics will convene
at Dartmouth College to help guide U.S. policy in
science and engineering research and development,
and science education for the next 25 years. The "Scientists
and Engineers In the Schools" program and
the "S.E.E.ing (Science, Engineering and Education)
The Future Institute" are two of the key
initiatives announced recently by the National Science
Foundation as part of its yearlong 50th
anniversary celebration entitled, "NSF 50: Where Discoveries
Begin." Kicking off the 12-month program, NSF joined
with its 50th anniversary partners, The
Dow Chemical Company, Dartmouth College and Science
Service at a press conference in Washington, DC, to
unveil these initiatives and a new web site at www.nsfoutreach.org.
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Cosmologists Obtain Images of Early Universe
An international team
of cosmologists supported by the National Science
Foundation has released the first detailed images
of the universe in its infancy. The team flew a telescope
under a high-altitude balloon circumnavigating Antarctica
to detect and map the cosmic microwave background
(CMB), a faint glow of radiation that is a remnant
of the intense heat that filled the universe shortly
after the Big Bang. The images of the CMB reveal structures
in the very early universe that eventually evolved
into galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Analysis of
these structures supports cosmological theories that
indicate the geometry of the universe is "flat."
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Philip and Phylis Morrison, and Science Service
Picked for NSB Public Service Awards
The National Science
Board (NSB) has named Philip and Phylis Morrison --
he's a renowned physicist and science communicator,
and she's an educator, author and her husband’s long-time
collaborator -- for the NSB’s third annual public
service award. The NSB is honoring both Morrisons
with individual awards because of their unique teaming
efforts over many years in communicating science and
enhancing the public’s understanding of it, and for
educating, encouraging and influencing a new generation
of scientists. The NSB also named Science Service,
a nonprofit organization founded in 1921 to advance
public understanding and appreciation of science,
to receive the public service award for organizations.
Science Service administers several prestigious education
programs for middle school and high school students,
and also publishes the highly regarded weekly news
magazine Science News. More...
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