• Monday, November 9, 2009
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NSF Urged to Support 'Transformative' Research With Promise of Breakthroughs

Seven years after the National Science Foundation said it was trying to finance more “high risk” projects at the cutting edge of research, instead of “sure thing” projects that promised only incremental advances, the National Science Board seems to think the foundation is not trying hard enough. In a new report, the board, the NSF’s governing body, urges the foundation to refocus its grant making on “transformative” research and to dispel the perception among scientists that only grant proposals with conservative objectives will gain a positive hearing. —Andrew Mytelka

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