NSF Fact Sheets

Providing background information on NSF issues or NSF organizations.

General
National Science Awards
Astronomy and Physics
Education and Workforce
Information Technology
Polar Programs
Other Programs

GENERAL

• Fact Sheet: National Science Foundation
  (updated February 10, 2012)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Science Board
  (updated January 25, 2012)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
  (updated March 26, 2009)
  
  
• Background: NSF and Homeland Security
  (posted April 2004)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Electronic Resources: Useful Web Sites and Statistics
  (posted June 10, 2009)
  
  

NSF Budget Requests

• NSF FY 13 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Securing Our Nation's Cyberspace | PDF (713KB)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Towards a Sustainable Future | PDF (643KB)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Education to Succeed in the Global Economy | PDF (602KB)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Manufacturing Our Future | PDF (702KB)
  
  

• NSF FY 12 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Creating a World-Class Science and Engineering Workforce
  
  
• Fact Sheet: The Foundation for the Next Generation of Innovation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Innovation for a Competitive Advantage
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Next Generation Computing and Communications
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability
  
  

• NSF FY 11 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Building America's Research Infrastructure
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Supporting Research on the Changing Climate
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Regaining Our Energy Science and Engineering Edge
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Broadening Participation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Promoting Science & Engineering Innovation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Stewardship
  
  

• NSF FY 10 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Building America's Research Infrastructure
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Supporting Research on the Changing Climate
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Regaining Our Energy Science and Engineering Edge
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Broadening Participation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Promoting Science & Engineering Innovation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Stewardship
  
  

• NSF FY 08 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation
  
  
• Fact Sheet: NSF and the International Polar Year 2007-2008
  
  

• NSF FY 06 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Icebreakers in Support of Science
  
  

• NSF FY 05 Budget Request
  
  
• Backgrounder: NSF Fiscal 2005 Budget Priority Areas
  (posted February 2, 2004)
  
  

• NSF FY 04 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Science Foundation Fiscal 2004 Budget Highlights
  (posted February 2003)
  
  

• NSF FY 03 Budget Request
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Science Foundation FY 2003 Budget Request
  (posted February 4, 2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: The Math and Science Partnership
  (posted February 4, 2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Mathematical Sciences
  (posted February 4, 2002)
  
  

Science and Engineering Indicators

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2006
  
  
• Science and Engineering Indicators, 2006: Excerpts
  (posted February 23, 2006)
  
  
• America's Pressing Challenge -- Building a Stronger Foundation
  (posted February 23, 2006)
  
  
• Science and Engineering Indicators 2006: The Rapidly Changing Global R&D Landscape
  (posted February 23, 2006)
  
  

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2004
  
  
• S&E Indicators 2004: State Rankings for R&D
  (posted May 4, 2004)
  
  

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2002
  
  
• Fact Sheet: State Rankings for R & D
  (posted April 30, 2002)
  
  
• The Nation's Top 20 States for R & D Investments
  (posted April 30, 2002)
  
  
• Excerpts from Science and Engineering Indicators 2002
  (posted April 30, 2002)
  
  

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INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SCIENCE AWARDS

• Background: NSF-Funded Nobel Prize Winners in Science Through 2012
  (posted October 2012)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Medal of Science
  (posted October 2011)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Vital Information on the Awardees of the 2002 National Medal of Science
  (posted October 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award
  (posted March 2012)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: National Science Board Vannevar Bush Award
  (posted March 2012)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: 2003 Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars Awardees
  (posted May 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Vital Information on the Awardees of the 2001 National Medal of Science
  (posted May 2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: "Vital Statistics" of the Awardees of the 2000 Medal of Science
  (posted November 2000)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: "Vital Statistics" of the Awardees of the 1999 Medal of Science
  (posted January 2000)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: "Vital Statistics" of the Awardees of the 1998 Medal of Science
  (posted August 2006)
  
  

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ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS

• Fact Sheet: LIGO: The Search for Gravitational Waves
  (updated February 27, 2008)
  
  

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EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

• President Pledges Clean Energy Education Opportunities to Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists & Engineers
  (posted April 27, 2009)
  
  
• Backgrounder: Realizing America's Potential
  (posted November 2003)
  
  

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Fact Sheet: From Supercomputing to the Teragrid
  (posted April 2006)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Information Technology Research
  (posted October 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: NSF Middleware Initiative
  (posted September 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Data Mining and Homeland Security Applications
  (posted January 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Digital Libraries
  (posted November 2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: NSF and High-Performance Networking Infrastructure
  (posted December 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: A Brief History of NSF and the Internet
  (posted August 2003)
  
  

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POLAR PROGRAMS

• Fact Sheet: Questions and Answers on Potentially Large Methane Releases From Arctic and Climate Change
  (posted March 2010)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Significant U.S. Science Discoveries From Antarctica
  (posted July 2009)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: U.S. Antarctic Program
  (posted December 2008)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: The Arctic Observing Network (AON)
  (posted July 10, 2007)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Astrophysics in Antarctica
  (posted November 2004)
  
  
• Digging Dinosaurs: How scientists put the pieces together
  (posted February 2004)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Scientific Logistics at the Poles
  (posted February 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE)
  (posted January 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Lake Vostok
  (posted May 31, 2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Balloon-based Astronomy in Antarctica
  (posted May 10, 2002)
  
  

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OTHER PROGRAMS

• Fact Sheet: Small Business Innovation Research
  (posted June 2009)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
  (posted June 2009)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Engineering Research Centers
  (posted June 2009)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Earth Day 2009 and Green Science
  (posted April 2009)
  
  
• What is Green Gasoline?
  (posted September 29, 2008)
  
  
• NSF Research Support Nurtures Small Companies with Big Ideas
  (posted April 10, 2006)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Engineers Week 2006: NSF Research Highlights
  (posted February 23, 2006)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: NSF's Response to the Hurricanes
  (posted September 27, 2005)
  
  
• Protein Data Bank
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Protein Data Bank -- Chronology
  (posted January 2004)
  
  
• Protein Data Bank Sidebar - Impacts Range from Fundamental Biology to Disease
  (posted January 2004)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Protein Data Bank - Contacts
  (posted January 2004)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Dinosaur discoveries - NSF news releases since 1998
  (posted March 2004)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Planetary Biodiversity Inventories (PBI)
  (posted September 2003)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
  (posted December 2000)