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Science 10 June 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5728, p. 1529
DOI: 10.1126/science.308.5728.1529c
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U.S. legislators want the National Science Foundation (NSF) to offer innovation prizes for the best research in various fields. The suggestion comes from Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), the new chair of the spending panel that oversees NSF and NASA. Wolf's subcommittee suggested this week that the National Academies develop "rules and conditions ... with plans [for NSF] to initiate a prize program in fiscal year 2006." No word on the scope of the program, but the panel suggests that NSF sweeten the pot with nonfederal money.

Elsewhere in the House's budget bill for NSF, legislators removed the entire $56 million that NSF had sought for the Rare Symmetry Violating Processes physics project at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, New York, but approved full funding for its other new facilities. They also granted NSF the flexibility to use non-Coast Guard vessels in Antarctic icebreaking (Science, 4 March, p. 1401). Members said they expected NSF to pursue "more economical solutions." NSF is still trying to figure out how the Coast Guard keeps its books, says Karl Erb, head of polar programs, which were tapped for an additional $9 million this year for ship repairs.




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