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Pressed by the exigencies of war time, prompted by the success of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and by the sincere, but naive, attempts at science legislation by Senator Kilgore during 1943 and 1944, and desiring to see what might be done further to promote the progress of science in war and in peace, the late President Roosevelt in November, 1944, requested Dr. Vannevar Bu...

Measuring Interdisciplinarity at the National Science Foundation

Fostering interdisciplinary research is a priority at the National Science Foundation (NSF). To this end, the NSF has undertaken several foundation-wide initiatives and encouraged the development of multi-directorate programs. As these new initiatives and programs grow, so does interest in assessing the success of such experiments in fostering interdisciplinary research (IDR). A primary challen...

Conceptual assessment in the biological sciences: a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop.

Twenty-one biology teachers from a variety of disciplines (genetics, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, etc.) met at the University of Colorado to begin discussions about approaches to assessing students' conceptual understanding of biology. We considered what is meant by a "concept" in biology, what the important biological concepts might be, and how to go about developing assessment items abo...

Airborne Science Programs of the National Science Foundation (USA)

The US National Science Foundation supports and utilizes a range of platforms which are made available to its US funded science investigators in the furtherance of airborne science program objectives. As well as providing access to the platforms themselves, NSF also supports their operation, maintenance and infrastructure development. NSF airborne science projects may be deployed worldwide. Whi...