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S Delegate to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Baylor Dental College, as well as a member of a variety of other community and professional boards and committees.
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She was formerly a policy analyst in the Division of Policy Research and Analysis of the National Science Foundation. While at NSF she also served as Associate Executive Secretary of the Director's Advisory Committee on Merit Review and as a consultant in the review and reorganization of its program evaluation activities.
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Dr. Drake is a former Director of the National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center, which includes the Arecibo observatory.
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He was previously the Head of He Solid State and Low Temperature Physics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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She was Chair of the Academic Affairs Council of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and Chair of the Commission of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. She is a charter member of the Advisory Committee for the Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation and also serves on a variety of professional boards, committees, and associations.
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is distributed by mechanism; and (3) an overview of how the major awards are distributed among the NSF research directorates.
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As with the MRLs, there are important criteria in addition to Me technical excellence of the research proposed. These additional criteria include the contribution of the center type of organization to sustained interdisciplinary research on relevant problems, the degree of cost sharing by state government and industry in order to promote relevance of the research to eventual industrial users, and the impact on education and training.
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The MRL, ERC, and STC programs account for 52 of the 59 major centers subject to NSB approval. The other seven include the Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC)
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, managed by loins Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.; · Global Seismic Network and a portable seismic array for f~ne-detai} local studies of the earth's crust ($7 million a year for operations) , managed by Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology; and · Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (AMIGO)
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The competing proposal ranked higher by peer reviewers came from the university that had had the most advanced high magnetic field facility in the world for many years and had been supported by NSF since 1972. In the NHMFL and other single-facility cases, NSF faces the inherently difficult situation of choosing between a proposal from a long-established program or facility and a highly promising proposal from a place that has not had such a program or facility.
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NSF supports a number of other expensive facilities located at and operated by universities, including the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, one of five national high-energy physics accelerators, and two of the seven accelerators available nationally for nuclear physics (the other accelerators are supported by the Department of Energy [DOER. NSF also supports several university-based synchrotron light sources for materials research, research institutes for pure and applied mathematics and for theoretical physics, and the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center operated by Cornell University in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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Another international project is the new 8-meter GEMINI telescope facility planned for Hawaii and Chile. Congress mandated the 50 percent foreign financial participation in the $178 million project that was only recently secured.
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of the R&RA budget to be "disciplinary research. " Most of the disciplinary research consists of individual research support, but it does include a few major awards.
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Two-thirds of the funding for astronomy goes to the national observatories, and part of the remaining one-third goes to universitybased telescopes. Many individual investigator grants support the researchers while they are using the national facilities.
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Geosciences In the atmospheric sciences, 52 percent of the funding goes to research project grants; the rest goes to the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other facilities. The ocean sciences are also very dependent on facilities; 52 percent goes to research project grants and the rest to the ODP, the academic fleet, and other facilities.
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reviewers were asked to evaluate proposals based on the selection criteria below. In phase two, the most promising proposals underwent a site visit.
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In addition to the basic four criteria described in Grants for Research and Education in Science and Engineering (NRC, 19926) , the following criteria were "taken into consideration in rating the proposals": · the relevance of the center to the NSF role in earthquake hazard mitigation; · relevance of the selected research center problem area to earthquake hazard mitigation; · demonstrated capability to manage, direct, and focus research center activities to establish a coordinated and directed effort in the problem area; detailed statements of objectives, goals, and mission of the research center and the methodology for achievement; · management plan and methodology to allow center activities to be directed, coordinated, and focused; · plan and methodology for incorporating earthquake researchers from other institutions, industry, and government into the research center's activities;
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reviews were used to identify the most meritorious proposals. In stage two, the most meritorious proposals were visited by a site visit team of experts.
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practitioners on topics of mutual interest and concern; · programs that will help alleviate the serious shortage of personnel trained in geographic information systems and geographic analysis in the public, private, and academic sectors; · plans for acting as a clearinghouse and conduit for information regarding the existence, characteristics, and availability of geographic data bases, domestically and internationally; · measures designed to maintain and enhance the international competitiveness of the United States with respect to geographic analysis and geographic information systems; · significant commitments of institutional funds and a plan for obtaining support from external sources in Me forms of funds, equipment, and personnel Mat ensure the involvement of practitioners in Me center's research and instructional programs; and · a management plan for the center that assures broad and continued participation in center oversight by scholars and practitioners from throughout the nation's GIS community.
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and the following key features of an MRL: Research thrust areas · Intrinsic merit of the research · Research performance competence · Degree of interconnection 2. The MRL as a whole Institutional setting and rationale for the MRL Central facilities Seed funding Effect of the MRL on the infrastructure of science and · engmeermg · Institutional support and management plan
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Ocean Drilling Program 6. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory 7.
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