The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Named the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), it would establish new rules compelling social media platforms to share data with “qualified researchers,” defined as university-affiliated researchers pursuing projects that have been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF. Like it’s literally gold, and lithium is one of them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

According to NSF International, a product testing and certification organization, more than half of quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers found staff turnover to be an issue for their business, with 20% saying that it had the biggest negative impact on operations within the past several months.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

They also snagged a NASA SBIR Phase I award and an NSF Phase II, totaling $1.1 With interest from established aerospace companies and stamps of approval (via SBIR) of both NASA and the NSF, Regher seems well positioned to make its play. Whether the hard part is designing the new panel or actually making it, though?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH). On top of the investment raised, the company was awarded an additional $1.8

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. The Mobile Work Exchange has a handy benefits calculator where you can quantify how much telework can help your particular organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The director of the NSF has gone so far as to say that it will "usher in a technological age that dwarfs everything we have yet experienced in its sheer scope and power." The National Science Foundation is convinced cyberinfrastructure will transform the conduct of the sciences and that other academic disciplines will soon follow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Another SBIR grant with the NSF differs in that, while at NASA the team is looking into better organizing tons of disparate types of documents with some overlapping information, at NSF they’re aiming to better identify “small data.” ” “We are looking at the tiny things, the tiny details,” said Paoli.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

At the end of the report, the NSF asked charities to predict what their fundraising would look like in 2018. Seventy percent of organizations in the Midwest met their goals compared to 78 percent in the West, but the study states that this gap is not “statistically significant.”. How has 2018 stacked up?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

The fintech’s Hatch Business Checking accounts cost $10 a month, don’t charge non-sufficient funds (NSF) or overdraft fees and includes cashback offers. Eligible account holders can also enroll in Hatch Cover, which covers overdrafts up to $100, or apply for lines of credit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls. There's a growing number of artists, like Mary Flanagan who is on the board of Games for Change, interested in games.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

When we received the award, we felt a great sense of opportunity and responsibility, since this was the first NSF-funded research study about bilingual families and their experiences in fully bilingual exhibitions. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. Institutions may feel less of a need to offer something unusual or distinctive if the audience will keep refreshing every few years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. Why would they want to do that?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Our programs end up being the hub of the local science learning ecosystem--especially in communities where there isn''t a science center for miles in any direction. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

The initial NSF proposal for ScratchR focused on creating networked opportunities for teams of kids who were already using Scratch and for whom a social component would add value to their education experiences.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2025

Similarly, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a directive that requires all grantees to pause any activities related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) that do not fully comply with the new administration’s updated requirements.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

” The company kept the lights on for the period after I met them with an SBIR award from the NSF, with the Phase I and II awards yielding more than $2 million in non-dilutive money to work with. We don’t want to introduce materials that are just gonna be another problem.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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Futurism

APRIL 20, 2025

"Because this is such a novel event, we didn't quite know what to expect when we decided to point this telescope in its direction," said lead author Ryan Lau, an astronomer at the NSF NOIRLab in Arizona, in a statement about the work.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 24, 2025

Specifically, the NSF is facing a 55 percent cut to its $9 billion annual budget in the next fiscal year, as well as a mass layoff of half of its 1,700-person staff, according to Science. A memo sent to staff on Thursday, April 24, and obtained by Ars Technica confirmed that the NSF is in for significant cuts.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 15, 2025

RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/Y. The next generation of solar sail spacecraft could use lasers on the sails to reach even higher speeds, which would offer a nimble and low-cost solution compared to other futuristic fuels, such as nuclear propulsion. The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile should discover more interstellar objects.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I think about third-party certificationswe’ve been NSF[-certified] for sport for eight or nine years, which is a third-party certification that not only verifies that what’s on the label is in the product, it also ensures there are no contaminants or doping agents.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The list of grants was compiled by a group of Senate Republicans last fall and released to the public earlier this month, and while the NSF does not appear to have taken any action in response to the complaints, the lists existence is adding to an atmosphere of confusion and worry among researchers in the early days of President Donald J.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 5, 2025

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally made it clear to Congress that he wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Acta $280 billion bipartisan law Joe Biden signed in 2022 to bring more semiconductor manufacturing into the US and put the country at the forefront of research and innovation.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR. A different item, flagged as "GENDER" in the spreadsheet, was meant to provide opportunities for women in the electric vehicles industry.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In response the NSA is deleting websites and internal network content containing any of the banned words and the NSF is scouring research grants for any reference or use of the words.

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