June 17, 2005

Colleges Worry About NSF Limits on Numbers of Grant Applications

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

University scientists have long praised the National Science Foundation as one of the few federal agencies that routinely seeks outside peer review for the research-grant proposals it finances. But lately, some college officials have questioned a move by the agency that is stretching the meaning of outside review.

Increasingly, for some types of grant competitions, the agency is limiting the number of applications that any one institution can submit, often to one or two. That means

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