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INTRODUCTION
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In a world of globally
linked, rapidly changing economic opportunities, America's
workforce must be able to fluently adapt to new knowledge, skills, and
tools to operate across geographic and professional boundaries. NSF
works with public and private sector partners to help prepare students
and professionals for lifelong innovation and productivity. These
cooperative efforts help to ensure that America's science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) workforce excels in the global economy, and
that the STEM workforce is representative of the entire population. With
a diversity of perspectives, we can better address local, national and
global needs in areas such as health care, energy, national security,
climate change, and the environment. The Highlights below offer
examples of NSF funded projects that have made a difference.
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FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS
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Autonomous Undersea Systems Network (AUSNET)
Technology Systems, Inc.'s research and development led to the creation of an advanced capability for operating ad-hoc networks...
State: Maine
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development
High Efficiency Plastic Solar Cell
The Konarka solar cell is a lightweight, flexible, cost-effective photovoltaic (PV) cell that efficiently generates electricity from...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
Bringing Science to a
Neighborhood Near You
Community Science Workshops (CSW): Beginning a National Movement is an innovative project that brings science to socioeconomically disadvantaged...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Teachers Set Sail for the School of Rock
Thirteen middle school, high school, and museum educators from around the United States recently set sail from Victoria, Canada, for...
State: District Of Columbia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Extreme 2003
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Ocean Science provided funding for outreach programs, called EXTREME 2000 and...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Materials Mini-Camp
for Teachers
The National Science Foundation-funded Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) is helping to pave the way for materials...
State: New Jersey
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
The ACTiVATE Program for Technical Entrepreneurs
The National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Program enabled the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop...
State: Maryland
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
The Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Enhancing Robot Vision
Most present and future vision applications including automotive, biometric, security and mobile computing applications operate in unconstrained...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development
Where Biology Meets
Business
Large science and technology centers provide a unique opportunity for scientists to conduct research and outreach on sizeable, long-term...
State: Georgia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
ATE Center Responds
to the Changing ICT Industry
The dot-com bust of the late 1990’s resulted in a convergence of the Telecommunications Industries and the Information Technologies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Learning to Teach Mathematics to All Students
The National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics for All project, conducted by Bank Street College of Education and the Education...
State: New York
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Foundation Science: Challenging Students to Learn
What caused the airship Hindenburg to burst into flames and crash in 1937? How could analysis of sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner’s...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
Product Platform and Product Family Design
In today’s highly competitive global marketplace, companies need cost-effective solutions that satisfy diverse customer demands in order...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
Tennessee State CREST
discovers another planet
Funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program since 1998,...
State: Tennessee
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Determining Protein Structure for Drug Design
X-ray Optical systems, Inc. (XOS) has designed and built a protein crystal structure analyzer based on a convergent-beam X-ray diffraction...
State: New York
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
Innovative Protein Microarrays
Biotraces has developed a new blood test that can detect breast cancer at its earliest stage, before the appearance of any physical...
State: Virginia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
College Professors and K-12 Teachers Learn from One Another
Among the partnerships of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, there is a growing practice...
State: New York, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Early Lung Cancer Detection
An interdisciplinary university/industry team at West Virginia University (WVU) is merging nanoscience and microdevices to meet the...
State: West Virginia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development
GLOBE Program Heads
in New Directions
In the past decade, the NASA-NSF-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program has engaged...
State: Alaska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Partnership Catalyzes SOP-based Industry
The Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center (PRC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC), completed its 10-year...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
Alliances for Graduate Education Show Improved Baseline
The investments of the National Science Foundation’s Human Resource Development Division’s Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate...
State: Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
Breath-based Medical
Diagnostics
Convergent Engineering, Inc. is developing signal processing algorithms and techniques for breath-based medical diagnostic applications....
State: Florida
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
Real-Time Information for Traffic and Logistics Management
IntelliOne’s mobile positioning system can locate every active mobile device in a wireless carrier’s network with 30 to 100 meter accuracy. ...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
HBCUs lead the way in STEM degrees conferred
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Undergraduate Program provides awards to...
State: Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Strengthening Geoscience Teacher Training
The Geoscience Teacher Training (GEO-Teach) program was initiated in 2006 to address the need for highly qualified teachers in...
State: New Hampshire, Virginia
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development
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Current NSF Abstracts
Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) II
GEO TEACH
Awarded to: Robert Myers, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Nov 1, 2006
UNH GEO-Teach: Transforming Earth System Science Education
GEO TEACH
Awarded to: Karen Graham, University of New Hampshire, Nov 1, 2006
Workforce Development Resources
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