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Fast Facts about NSF

 

  • $3.9 billion budget for Fiscal Year 1999.
  • Funds research in all 50 states.
  • Supports about 2,000 universities and other institutions through research grants and other funding mechanisms.
  • Funds about one-third of all competitive proposals received.
  • Employs more than 1,300 employees at its Arlington, Virginia, headquarters. More than 200,000 people, including researchers, graduate students, and teachers are involved in NSF programs and activities nationwide.
  • Funds polar research in both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
  • Supports and oversees all U.S. research in Antarctica, supporting at least 600 scientists and their research teams each year, so that research on the southern-most continent continues.
  • At academic institutions nationwide, NSF provides the following percentages of federal funding:
  • 61% of basic research in the social sciences
  • 58% of basic research in mathematics
  • 56% of computer science research
  • 51% of basic research in the earth sciences
  • 43% of non-medical life sciences research
  • 42% of basic research in the physical sciences
  • 33% of basic research in engineering
  • 30% of science and mathematics education reform efforts.
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