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CHAPTER 16—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  • § 1861. Establishment; composition
  • § 1862. Functions
  • § 1862a. Findings and purpose
  • § 1862b. Establishment of Program
  • § 1862c. Procedures, guidelines, and planning activities
  • § 1862d. Set-aside for certain institutions
  • § 1862e. Evaluations of research centers
  • § 1862f. Research center consortia
  • § 1862g. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
  • § 1862h. Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purposes respecting scientific and technical education and training
  • § 1862i. Scientific and technical education
  • § 1862j. Authorization of appropriations
  • § 1862k. Findings; core strategies
  • § 1862l. National research facilities
  • § 1862m. Financial disclosure
  • § 1862n. Mathematics and science education partnerships
  • § 1862n-1. Robert Noyce Scholarship Program
  • § 1862n-2. Establishment of centers for research on mathematics and science learning and education improvement
  • § 1862n-3. Duplication of programs
  • § 1862n-4. Major research equipment and facilities construction plan
  • § 1862n-5. Board meetings; audits; reports; scholarship eligibility
  • § 1862n-6. Undergraduate education reform
  • § 1862n-7. Reports
  • § 1862n-8. Evaluations
  • § 1862n-9. Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
  • § 1862n-10. Minority-serving institutions undergraduate program
  • § 1863. National Science Board
  • § 1864. Director of Foundation
  • § 1864a. Deputy Director of the Foundation
  • § 1865. Executive Committee
  • § 1866. Divisions within Foundation
  • § 1867. Repealed.]
  • § 1868. Special commissions
  • § 1869. Scholarships and graduate fellowships
  • § 1869a. Contracts for precollege science or engineering curriculum development activities; inspection of materials by parent or guardian
  • § 1869b. Issuance of instructions to grantees of pre-college curriculum projects
  • § 1869c. Low-income scholarship program
  • § 1870. General authority of Foundation
  • § 1870a. Buy-American requirements
  • § 1871. Disposition of inventions produced under contracts or other arrangements
  • § 1872. International cooperation and coordination with foreign policy
  • § 1872a. Repealed.]
  • § 1873. Employment of personnel
  • § 1873a. Repealed.]
  • § 1874. Security provisions
  • § 1875. Appropriations
  • §§ 1876 to 1879. Repealed.]
  • § 1880. National Medal of Science
  • § 1881. Award of National Medal of Science
  • § 1881a. Alan T. Waterman Award
  • § 1881b. Presidential awards for teaching excellence
  • § 1882. Information furnished to Congressional committees
  • § 1883. Office of Small Business Research and Development
  • § 1884. Repealed.]
  • § 1885. Congressional statement of findings and declaration of policy respecting equal opportunities in science and engineering
  • § 1885a. Women in science and engineering; support of activities by Foundation for promotion, etc.
  • § 1885b. Participation in science and engineering of minorities and persons with disabilities
  • § 1885c. Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering
  • § 1885d. Biennial reports
  • § 1886. Data collection and analysis
  • § 1887. Indemnification of grantees, contractors, and subcontractors under ocean drilling program; approvals and certifications by Director

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