CHAPTER 16—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
- § 1861. Establishment; composition
- § 1862. Functions
- § 1862a. Findings and purpose
- § 1862b. Establishment of Program
- § 1862c. Procedures, guidelines, and planning activities
- § 1862d. Set-aside for certain institutions
- § 1862e. Evaluations of research centers
- § 1862f. Research center consortia
- § 1862g. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
- § 1862h. Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purposes respecting scientific and technical education and training
- § 1862i. Scientific and technical education
- § 1862j. Authorization of appropriations
- § 1862k. Findings; core strategies
- § 1862l. National research facilities
- § 1862m. Financial disclosure
- § 1862n. Mathematics and science education partnerships
- § 1862n-1. Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
- § 1862n-1a. National Science Foundation Teaching Fellowships and Master Teaching Fellowships
- § 1862n-2. Establishment of centers for research on mathematics and science learning and education improvement
- § 1862n-3. Duplication of programs
- § 1862n-4. Major research equipment and facilities construction plan
- § 1862n-5. Board meetings; audits; reports; scholarship eligibility
- § 1862n-6. Undergraduate education reform
- § 1862n-7. Reports
- § 1862n-8. Evaluations
- § 1862n-9. Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
- § 1862n-10. Minority-serving institutions undergraduate program
- § 1862o. Postdoctoral research fellows
- § 1862o-1. Responsible conduct of research
- § 1862o-2. Reporting of research results
- § 1862o-3. Sharing research results
- § 1862o-4. Funding for successful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education programs
- § 1862o-5. Meeting critical national science needs
- § 1862o-6. Research on innovation and inventiveness
- § 1862o-7. Cyberinfrastructure
- § 1862o-8. Pilot program of grants for new investigators
- § 1862o-9. Broader impacts merit review criterion
- § 1862o-10. Advanced information and communications technology research
- § 1862o-11. Evaluation and report
- § 1862o-12. Hispanic-serving institutions undergraduate program
- § 1862o-13. Professional science master’s degree programs
- § 1862o-14. Major research instrumentation
- § 1862o-15. Limit on proposals
- § 1863. National Science Board
- § 1864. Director of Foundation
- § 1864a. Deputy Director of the Foundation
- § 1865. Executive Committee
- § 1866. Divisions within Foundation
- § 1867. Repealed.]
- § 1868. Special commissions
- § 1869. Scholarships and graduate fellowships
- § 1869a. Contracts for precollege science or engineering curriculum development activities; inspection of materials by parent or guardian
- § 1869b. Issuance of instructions to grantees of pre-college curriculum projects
- § 1869c. Low-income scholarship program
- § 1870. General authority of Foundation
- § 1870a. Buy-American requirements
- § 1871. Disposition of inventions produced under contracts or other arrangements
- § 1872. International cooperation and coordination with foreign policy
- § 1872a. Repealed.]
- § 1873. Employment of personnel
- § 1873a. Repealed.]
- § 1874. Security provisions
- § 1875. Appropriations
- §§ 1876 to 1879. Repealed.]
- § 1880. National Medal of Science
- § 1881. Award of National Medal of Science
- § 1881a. Alan T. Waterman Award
- § 1881b. Presidential awards for teaching excellence
- § 1882. Information furnished to Congressional committees
- § 1883. Office of Small Business Research and Development
- § 1884. Repealed.]
- § 1885. Congressional statement of findings and declaration of policy respecting equal opportunities in science and engineering
- § 1885a. Women in science and engineering; support of activities by Foundation for promotion, etc.
- § 1885b. Participation in science and engineering of minorities and persons with disabilities
- § 1885c. Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering
- § 1885d. Biennial reports
- § 1886. Data collection and analysis
- § 1887. Indemnification of grantees, contractors, and subcontractors under ocean drilling program; approvals and certifications by Director