This book is designed to help researchers achieve success in funding their National Science Foundation (NSF) research proposals.

" Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.

Features a funded research database of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), provided by the Community of Science (COS) Inc. Allows searching of all grants from 1986, or searching by selected institutions.

The book considers past and current practices for assessing the VIGRE program; draws tentative conclusions about the program's achievements based on the data collected to date; and evaluates NSF's plans for future data-driven assessments.

The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to “other sciences.” Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major—albeit ...