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Social Science for What
Author | : Mark Solovey |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780262358750 |
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How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.
A Patron for Pure Science
Author | : James Merton England |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112072095299 |
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Participation in Computing
Author | : William Aspray |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9783319248325 |
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This book provides a history of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation to broaden participation in computing. The book briefly discusses the early history of the NSF's involvement with education and workforce issues. It then turns to two programs outside the computing directorate (the ADVANCE program and the Program on Women and Girls) that set the stage for three programs in the NSF computing directorate on broadening participation: the IT Workforce Program, the Broadening Participation in Computing program, and the Computing Education for the 21st Century program. The work looks at NSF-funded research and NSF-funded interventions both to increase the number of women, underrepresented minorities (African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians) and people with disabilities, and to increase the number of public schools offering rigorous instruction in computing. Other organizations such as the ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Code.org are also covered. The years covered are primarily 1980 to the present.
Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation
Author | : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Advancing a Systems Approach to Studying the Earth a Strategy for the National Science Foundation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2022-06-22 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0309224462 |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding research on atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, geologic, polar, ecosystem, social, and engineering-related processes. Today, however, those systems are being driven like never before by human technologies and activities. Our understanding has struggled to keep pace with the rapidity and magnitude of human-driven changes, their impacts on human and ecosystem sustainability and resilience, and the effectiveness of different pathways to address those challenges. Given the urgency of understanding human-driven changes, NSF will need to sustain and expand its efforts to achieve greater impact. The time is ripe to create a next-generation Earth systems science initiative that emphasizes research on complex interconnections and feedbacks between natural and social processes. This will require NSF to place an increased emphasis on research inspired by real-world problems while maintaining their strong legacy of curiosity driven research across many disciplines ? as well as enhance the participation of social, engineering, and data scientists, and strengthen efforts to include diverse perspectives in research.
National Science Foundation Programs for Dissemination of Scientific Information
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Science Information Service |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015024641691 |
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Publications of the National Science Foundation
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4247101 |
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Annual Report of the National Science Foundation
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Research |
ISBN | : COLUMBIA:CU14240076 |
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Science the Endless Frontier
Author | : Vannevar Bush |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780691201658 |
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The classic case for why government must support science—with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today Science, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government’s responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Bush’s vision set the course for US science policy for more than half a century, building the world’s most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amid a changing funding landscape and challenges to science’s very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government. This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, who offers a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report’s legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt contends that the public’s ability to cope with today’s issues—such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society—requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science’s value for democracy and society at large. A touchstone for concerned citizens, scientists, and policymakers, Science, the Endless Frontier endures as a passionate articulation of the power and potential of science.