In the United States, the Doctor of Industrial Technology degree is recognized by the U. S. Department of Education and the U. S. National Science Foundation ( NSF ) as equivalent to the Ph. D.

The ' Black Proposal ' was a short, ten-page proposal for the creation of a supercomputing center which eventually led to funding from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to create supercomputing centers, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois.

The University is home to several national centers and institutes, including the Net-Centric Software and Systems Center — an NSF Industry / University Cooperative Research Center ; the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Center for Electronic Materials Processing and Integration ; the Institute of Applied Science ; the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling ; the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge ; and the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

Afterwards, Glashow became a NSF fellow at NORDITA and joined the University of California, Berkeley where he was an Associate Professor from 1962 – 66.

NSF was discovered by James Rothman and colleagues in 1987 while at Stanford University ; they identified NSF after observing that a cytoplasmic factor, required for membrane fusions, was inactivated by treatment with N-ethylmaleimide.

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultra Violet Science and Technology, funded by the National Science Foundation, partners industry with Colorado State University, CU-Boulder, and the University of California-Berkeley.

The US National Science Foundation ( NSF ) requested a review from David J. Farber at the University of Delaware.

The first management team consisted of Landweber ( University of Wisconsin ), Farber ( University of Delaware ), Peter J. Denning ( Purdue University ), Anthony Hearn ( RAND Corporation ), and Bill Kern from the NSF.

In 2012, it became the first Louisiana university designated as an NSF Industry / University Cooperative Research Center.

The initial contract between the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and The Regents, University of California was signed on June 24, 1966.

After surviving the U. S. Army Ranger School and serving as an Army Captain in the Combat Engineers of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, he returned to study mathematics at the University of Göttingen ( Fulbright Scholar ), the University of California at Berkeley ( M. A., Ph. D. under advisor Lester Dubins ), and as NATO / NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University.

The first higher educational user of Computervision equipment was State University of New York College of Technology at Alfred, New York which acquired a CADDS3 system in 1979 with the help of a NSF grant and generous donation of equipment by Computervision employees Virgil Ross, Drew Davis and Bob Gothie.

Leslie holds an MD from the Yale School of Medicine and a PhD in computer science from Yale University, and is a professor of mathematics and computer science at and director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, a winner of the Steele Prize for a seminal contribution to research, a recipient of both a Packard Foundation Fellowship and an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a member of both the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.

Subsequent to her undergraduate years, Duke was awarded an NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study psycholinguistics, a field within cognitive psychology.

Cornell University lead by physicist Kenneth G. Wilson made a supercomputer proposal to NSF with IBM to produce a processor array of FPS boxes attached to an IBM mainframe with the name lCAP.

He has held Guggenheim, NEH, and NSF fellowships, and has served as a visiting professor at MIT, Stanford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

SRB development began in 1995, through the cooperative efforts of General Atomics, the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group ( DICE ), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center ( SDSC ) at the University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ) with the support of the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing ( CLSP ) was established at Johns Hopkins University in 1992 with support from the U. S. government ( NSF, DARPA, DoD ).

The NSF / DARPA funded Workshop on Development and Learning was held April 5 – 7, 2000 at Michigan State University.

Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

* Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site ( US NSF )

; 1972: The NSF takes over management of twelve interdisciplinary materials research laboratories from the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

The NSF begins to expand these laboratories into a nationwide network of Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers.

* C-MORE, the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, an NSF Science and Technology Center

In 2003, the NSF published a report entitled " The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field ", which gives a thorough description of the history of this field.

Examples are the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rosenthal Fellowship and the Presidential Management Fellowship.

The NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.

Presently, SIT has been undertaking numerous projects of National Natural Science Foundation ( NSF ), the earlier stage programs of National Basic Research Program, Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, Shanghai Municipal Dawn Plan and other projects at provincial and municipal levels.

* Co-author and project director, City Size and the Quality of Life: An Analysis of the Policy Implications of Continued Population Concentration, prepared by the Stanford Research Institute for the National Science Foundation and United States Senate, Washington, D. C., 142 pages, 1974, NSF Contract GI. 138462.

Alvin, owned by the Office of Naval Research ( ONR ) is operated under agreement by the National Deep Submergence Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI ), where it conducts science oriented missions funded by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and ONR.

The naming was proposed by Thiel and Craddock after Dr. Thomas O. Jones ( 1908-93 ), American chemist ; senior NSF official in charge of the U. S. Antarctic Research Program, 1958-78 ; Director, Division of Environmental Science, NSF, 1965-69 ; Deputy Assistant Director for National and International Programs, NSF, 1969-78.

* Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Microbiology in the Post Genome Era-Funded through the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), this program introduces undergraduate students to research through a 10-week summer program.

* Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology ( MSSB )-Funded through the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), this program introduces undergraduate students to research through a 10-week summer program.

He has also received the Cornell Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, an NSF Career Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

While dean of engineering at MSU, he led the effort to secure National Science Foundation funding for the establishment of the MSU NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation in 1990.

He has won highly-competitive awards from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), IBM, Microsoft Research, Sony, and Sun Microsystems.

" After receiving his doctorate, he was awarded a National Science Foundation ( NSF ) Postdoctoral Research Associateship in Experimental Computer Science ( 1996 – 1997 ).

* Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis, An NSF Center for Chemical Innovation, USA

The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center ( CSEC ), located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

In 1991, the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), which manages the U. S. Antarctic Program ( USAP ), honoured his memory by dedicating a state-of-the-art laboratory complex in his name, the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center ( CSEC ) located in McMurdo Station.

Support for MPI meetings came in part from ARPA and US National Science Foundation under grant ASC-9310330, NSF Science and Technology Center Cooperative agreement number CCR-8809615, and the Commission of the European Community through Esprit Project P6643.

In the 1980s and 1990s, support to NSIDC widened with NASA funding for the Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center ( DAAC ) and NSF funding to manage selected Arctic and Antarctic data and metadata.

* 1990: NSIDC receives funding from NSF for Arctic System Science ( ARCSS ) Data Coordination Center ( ADCC )

* 1996: Antarctic Data Coordination Center ( ADCC ) established with NSF support

* 1999: Antarctic Glaciological Data Center ( AGDC ) established with NSF support

In 1983 Blum won an NSF CAREER award to work with Michael Shub for two years at the CUNY Graduate Center.