New Report: NSF Releases Perspectives on Broader Impacts From the Executive Summary: Each year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) receives about 50,000 proposals for funding. Because there are many more worthy proposals than NSF is able to fund, the foundation distinguishes among them through a merit review process that incorporates two criteria: Intellectual merit and broader impacts ... The Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit, held in Arlington, Va., in April 2014, brought together more than 120 professionals from 80 higher education institutions and nonprofits for wide-ranging discussions on broader impacts focused on institutional collaboration, guidance and accountability ... Perspectives on Broader Impacts present some of the highlights from the Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit, including: • Perspectives from NSF, • Perspectives of university leaders, and • Perspectives of university participants. The report is available at: nsf.gov/od/iia/publications/Broader_Impacts.pdf Learn more about the NSF Broader Impacts at: nsf.gov/od/iia/special/broaderimpacts/
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:31:17 +0000