National Science Foundation

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an independent agency of the executive branch, created in 1950, that promotes and supports research and education in the sciences. NSF

Example Sentences

At UCLA, nearly all the grants on hold are from the National Institutes of Health, after a court case led to the restoration of $81 million in briefly suspended National Science Foundation grants.

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An outspoken supporter of Israel who has decried a “demonization of Zionism” at the university, Pearl was the co-recipient of a $1.2-million National Science Foundation grant suspended in late July.

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The National Science Foundation’s “suspension of the grants at issue here is vacated,” wrote Lin, of the Northern District of California.

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Hundreds of grants — from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy — are on hold at UCLA.

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In total, at least 800 grants, mostly from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, have been frozen.

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