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April 15, 2023, was graduate school commitment day for thousands of students across the nation, including about 2,500 who received fellowship offers from the U.S.
The U.S. National Science Foundation supports research opportunities and provides stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and scholars.
An international study, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, found that horses have been present on the Great Plains of North America since as early as the 16th century.
With mouths agape, movie audiences for more than 40 years have watched a certain outgunned rebel spaceship's futile attempt to flee a ginormous imperial star destroyer.
The US National Science Foundation is at the forefront of these efforts, supporting researchers studying black holes; facilities such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the…
The postdoctoral mentoring plan has been an NSF requirement since 2007, recognizing the important role that mentorship plays in the postdoctoral experience and their future career paths.