...planning its program of research grants and fellowships and in fulfilling its statutory obligation "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." The graduate student study has been discussed with representatives of the National Research Council,...

...SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES The National Science Foundation Act of 1950 authorizes and directs the Foundation to: "* * * develop and encourage the pursuit of a...for the promotion of basic research and education in tlie sciences ; "* * * evaluate scientific research programs undertaken by agencies of the Federal...

...the Foundation done to discharge its responsibility under section S (a) (1) of the act "to dcrclvp and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for...the promotion of basic research and education in the science«"/ In carrying out its functions under this clause in the act, the Foundation has to date...

...which would consist of a Coal Research Board and a Director. 2. The Foundation would be authorized to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basic and applied research in the production, distribution, and utilization of coal. It would also initiate...

...National Science Foundation is very broad in scope. It is primarily concerned with the development of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences. It is, too, I take it, a contributing body of indefinite duration. Our committee has as its objective...

...National Science Foundation is very broad in scope. It is primarily concerned with the development of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences. It is, too, I take it, a contributing body of indefinite duration. Our committee has as its objective...

...Foundation by the act are broad. The major functions of the Foundation can be summarized as follows: To develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basicresearch and education in the sciences; to initiate and support basic scientific research and...

...majority of the witnesses supported the social sciences as essential to fulfillment of the NSF mandate — "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." The Cabinet members and other Federal officials who testified at all on this point supported unanimously...

...majority of the witnesses supported the social sciences as essential to fulfillment of the NSF mandate— "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." The Cabinet members and other Federal officials who testified at all on this point supported unanimously...

...Foundation's responsibilities stem from Public Law 507, 81st Congress, which directed it, in part — "* * * to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...promotion of basic research and education in the sciences ; "to initiate and support basic scientific research in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological,...